Zhejiang people eat "Huang Wu" and "Huang Wu" on the Dragon Boat Festival, which Huang Wu does it refer to?

Monopterus albus, yellow croaker, cucumber, salted duck egg yolk, realgar wine

China Jiangnan folk Dragon Boat Festival has the custom of eating "Huang Wu". "Huang Wu" refers to eel, yellow croaker, cucumber, salted duck egg yolk and realgar wine. There are other sayings that salted duck eggs can be replaced by soybeans. Legend has it that in The Legend of the White Snake, the White Snake drinks realgar wine, showing its original shape. Therefore, people think that poisonous insects such as snakes, scorpions and centipedes can be cracked with realgar wine, and drinking realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival can exorcise evil spirits and detoxify and maintain good health. According to folklore, eating Huang Wu at noon can better ward off evil spirits.

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There are also customs of eating "Huang Wu" and "Five Whites" during the Dragon Boat Festival in the south of the Yangtze River. "Huang Wu" people are cucumber, eel, yellow croaker, salted egg yolk and realgar wine (opinions vary, some people regard Huangmei and Huangni snail as one of the Huang Wu. Because realgar is poisonous, it is rarely drunk in liquor now, and it is more common to replace realgar with yellow wine now. "Five whites" means boiled meat, white garlic, boiled chicken, white tofu and water bamboo. Eating "Huang Wu" and "Five White" dishes on the Dragon Boat Festival can clear away heat and reduce fire, strengthen the spleen and regulate the stomach. Of course, eating zongzi and racing dragon boats is also an important custom of the Dragon Boat Festival to commemorate the cultural significance and vote for Qu Yuan of the Miluo River.

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