Why do you have to cook eggs with garlic during the Dragon Boat Festival?

Boiled eggs for Dragon Boat Festival should be cooked with garlic. It is said that this method can avoid the "five poisons", which is good for the body and is also an emotional sustenance to drive away disasters and epidemics. In some places, tea eggs and salted eggs should be boiled.

On Dragon Boat Festival, housewives get up early and cook garlic and eggs prepared in advance for breakfast. In some places, put some mugwort leaves when cooking garlic and eggs.

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Dragon Boat Festival is a combination of blessing, entertainment and food, which originated from the ancient ancestors' choice of "Long Zaitian" as an auspicious day to worship the dragon ancestors and pray for disaster relief. The customs mainly include dragon boat race, Dragon Boat Festival, herb picking, hanging wormwood, drinking water at noon, washing herbal water, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, soaking in dragon boat water, eating zongzi, putting paper dragons, putting paper kites, tying colorful silk threads, wearing sachets and so on.

The custom of eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival has been popular all over China since ancient times, and it has become one of the most influential and widespread folk food customs of the Chinese nation.