Why do you eat salted duck eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival? The origin of eating salted duck eggs on Dragon Boat Festival.

1 duck eggs are supplemented with salted duck eggs in summer, which are slightly salty, nourish yin and clear lung, and can treat diaphragmatic fever, cough, sore throat, toothache and diarrhea in summer. It is a good food supplement and complementary food in summer. May is regarded as "poisonous month" and "evil month", and the fifth day of May is the first of the nine poisons. Eating salted duck eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival can detoxify and help to keep healthy.

In addition to commemorating Qu Yuan, the Dragon Boat Festival is to avoid the five poisons, because the legendary monster with five poisons will do harm to human beings during the Dragon Boat Festival. These five poisonous monsters are snakes, centipedes, spiders, geckos and scorpions. People use five kinds of red plates to symbolize the blood of these five poisons. Eating these dishes will scare away the five poisonous monsters, that is, eating five reds, namely roast duck, amaranth, duck eggs in red oil, lobster and male.

Similar to Wuhong, Jiangnan has the custom of eating "Huang Wu" during the Dragon Boat Festival. "Huang Wu" refers to Monopterus albus, yellow croaker, cucumber, salted duck eggs and realgar wine. Whether in Wu Hong or Huang Wu, there are duck eggs, so eating duck eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival has the reason to ward off evil spirits and dispel summer heat.