Happy Duan Wu Festival (Duan Wu Jie)

Hello my dearest friends!

Happy Duan Wu Festival, which every year in Chinese calendar we celebrate this festival by having "Bak Cang", a Chinese traditional food which contain a lot of porkie inside.

Duan Wu Jie (端午节), which will always on date 5th on the 5th month (by looking from the Chinese calendar), was been celebrated to commemorate one of the Chinese litterateur name Qu Yuan [屈原].

As the Chinese history said that Qu Yan also one of the famous Chinese minister on the era of King Chun Qiu [春秋].

Qu Yuan advocated some politics views such as strengthening the Royal Military College, Strengthening Economic Empire, Using scribes and sages as well as allied with Qi kingdom against kingdom of Qin.  

But these suggestions are all challenged by the nobility. Qu Yuan was later dismissed from his ministry position and driven out of the capital city of the Kingdom of Chu and exiled to regions and regions Xiang Yuan. 

In the exile, Qu Yuan wrote several works of poetry that showed worrying to the State and its people.

The poems which were very influential among them is "Li Sau [离骚]", Wen Tian [天 问] "and" Jiu Ge [九歌] ". 

In the year 278 BC, Qin Royal Military forces overran the Capital of the Kingdom of Chu. Qu Yuan was very sad, her heart pierced as by torn by a thousand swords.  

But Qu Yuan still did not want to leave his beloved State so that, on the 5th of the 5th month on Lunar Calendar, Qu Yuan wrote his last poem work titled "Huai Sha [怀沙]" then hugging a big rock, Qu Yuan jumped into the river "Mi Luo [汨罗]". Qu Yuan sacrificed himself for the sake of loyalty and love for the country, the State of Chu. 

  

That's some short history of Duan Wu Jie which I learned from some simple sources from Internet.

Beside of the history, what I interest the most of course the "Bak Cang", right???

(I won't lied, that's what I waited the most every year :D)

Look at that delicious Bak Cang which I bought by online order from Medan.

It's so hard to be found here in Cibubur.

Full of pork, shitake mushroom and also the salted egg yolk inside the steam of the savour/sauteed glutinous rice.

This one cost IDR 35k/ pcs from @siamrecipe (Instagram Profile).

So, does this make you hungry?

Have a good food everyone! #culinarypassion_girl

Au revoir..