Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Happy Bak Chang Day

Today is "bak chang" day...i eat alot of bak chang...and since alot people forget why we eat bakchang, so i m here to share a real history of china,the history of bakchang...

Bak chang is use to remember china dinasti "da chen" name " Qu Yuan"..."Qu Yuan" is a very clever and helpful "da chen",always give the "china king" briliant idea to rule the kingdom....DA DA DA DA...day by day,the castle added more briliant and bad person, there is a person,very very very bad,tat china king use to trust him very very very muc compare to Qu Yuan...So,day by day, the China King begin to forget Qu Yuan, and always listen to this bad da chen's idea...This bad da chen wan to "xian hai" the china king,to steal away his kingdom, so, he make alot of delicios food, that add alot of sugar, make it sweet sweet. ya la, as we know, eat more sweet can cause us lazy ma...so this china king become lazy to rule his kingdom...Qu Yuan very sad...he tell the china king " you cannot eat sweet,must eat abit of salt everyday"...but this lazy china king refuse, he say to Qu Yuan, that Qu Yuan is bad guy, want to steal his kingdom..of course,is the bad da chen's idea...Qu Yuan very sad, the king he use to pay for his whole life royalty is misunderstanding him,so sad so sad...The king not understand him,he feel very sad and sorry to the people,bacause cannot wake stupid king up from the control of the bad da chen...so he jumpy into the river commit suicide...so,he die...the china people is very angry the lauzy and stupid king, they also feel sad cause lost a clever and loyalty da chen...so they make "bak chang",throw into the river,hope the fish dun eat Qu Yuan body...and the guy take the dragon boat, row row row on the river,hope can "lau" and get Qu Yuan body...

So,this story pas pas pas so many year, and become to day's " bak chang day" and during this "bak chang"festival, got dragon boat competition held in Penang, also include international competition invite Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, German, so on so on...see,Qu Yuan so "wei da"...we must proud of him...

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