Excuse me, what's the reason for eating pork in the Dragon Boat Festival?

In the tradition of Jiangnan people, they eat "Huang Wu" on the Dragon Boat Festival-Monopterus albus, yellow croaker, cucumber, salted egg yolk and realgar wine (realgar is poisonous, and ordinary rice wine is generally used instead of realgar wine). In addition, 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 using realgar wine can crack poisonous insects such as poisonous snakes, scorpions and centipedes, and drinking yellow wine during the Dragon Boat Festival can exorcise evil spirits and detoxify and maintain good health.

At noon on the Dragon Boat Festival, the most suitable meal for Huang Wu is to mix five kinds of yellow food. Because the theory of traditional Chinese medicine holds that the Dragon Boat Festival is on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, which is the peak of yang in a year, and noon is the peak of yang in a day, we can use the power of the solar terms of the Dragon Boat Festival to curb bad luck and improve our energy.

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Dragon Boat Festival was originally founded by the ancestors of southern wuyue, to worship the ancestors of dragons and pray for evil spirits. It is said that Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State in the Warring States Period, jumped into the Miluo River on May 5th and committed suicide. Later, people also took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan.

There are also sayings in memory of Wu Zixu, Cao E and meson push. Generally speaking, the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the ancient ancestors' choice of "flying dragons over the sky" as an auspicious day to worship their ancestors and pray for evil spirits, and injected the seasonal fashion of "eliminating diseases and preventing epidemics" into summer. The Dragon Boat Festival, regarded as "bad month and bad day", began in the northern part of the Central Plains and was attached to commemorate Qu Yuan and other historical figures.

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People's Daily Online-Eat "Huang Wu" on Dragon Boat Festival: Monopterus albus, yellow croaker and cucumber with salted egg yolk realgar wine.