Zongzi, a kind of traditional Chinese food eaten on the Dragon Boat Festival, is stuffed with?glutinous rice, beans, meat and many different fillings and is wrapped in bamboo leaves or reed leaves.

People threw into the water zongzi (pyramid-shaped glutinous rice dumplings wrapped in reed or bamboo leaves) and eggs to divert possible fish or shrimp from attacking his body.

Ancient Chinese books-from the earliest bamboo tablets and reed pages to later string-bound paper books-tended to fall apart and lose their pages, or the writing would fade and rub off.