Why do you want to eat tea eggs on Dragon Boat Festival?

Tea has the effect of avoiding evil spirits, and eggs are necessary for the Dragon Boat Festival.

Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, also called Duanyang Festival, Noon Festival and May Festival. "Dragon Boat Festival" is one of the national legal holidays in China, and has been included in the world intangible cultural heritage list.

Dragon Boat Festival originated in China. It was originally a festival for China people to get rid of diseases and prevent epidemics. Before the Spring and Autumn Period in Wuyue, there was a custom of holding tribal totem sacrifices in the form of dragon boat races on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Later, because the poet Qu Yuan died on this day, it became a traditional festival in China to commemorate Qu Yuan. In some areas, Wu Zixu and Cao E are also commemorated.

On the Dragon Boat Festival, there are customs of eating zongzi, drinking realgar wine, hanging calamus, wormwood, wormwood leaves, smoked atractylodes rhizome, angelica dahurica and dragon boat racing.

Tea egg, a famous snack of Han nationality, is one of the traditional foods in China, which is found in most parts of the country. It is a kind of flavored boiled egg with tea added in the cooking process. Because of its simple method and convenient carrying, it is often cooked and sold in small pots in stations, streets and lanes, and places where there are many tourists and pedestrians. Cheap and good. It can be used as dinner and snack in leisure time, which is both practical and interesting. Because tea leaves have a refreshing effect, adding a little tea leaves in the cooking process will make the boiled eggs brown in color. However, some experts pointed out that the combination of tea and eggs is irritating to the stomach and is an inappropriate way to eat eggs.