On Mang Day, the custom of "boiling plum" in southern China is mainly for?

There are also many folk customs to celebrate the ear planting season, such as planting seedlings, sending flowers to worship the gods, fighting in mud, boiling plums and so on. Among them, boiled plum is a popular traditional way of eating mango in many southern regions, which has a history of thousands of years. As early as the Three Kingdoms period, there were stories of heroes who cooked wine in childhood.

In the south, May and June are the season when plums are ripe, and it is also a good time to cook and eat plums. Because fresh plums taste sour and need to be processed before they can be eaten. The most common processing method is "boiling plums". In addition, people are also popular in brewing plum wine, which tastes refreshing.

The implication of mango eating green plum

The specific practice of plums is to cook plums with rock sugar. Some people with special tastes will put salt in plums, and then it will taste like sour plum soup.

Boiling plums is also people's expectation for a better life. Boiling plum in the caravan period is not only a custom in the southeast coastal areas, but also has gradually influenced South China and even Central China, forming a unique China culture.