What is the cold knowledge about Dragon Boat Festival?

First of all, it is a traditional festival with the most names.

There are more than twenty nicknames for the Dragon Boat Festival, such as Dragon Boat Festival, Duanyang Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Summer Festival, May Festival, Long Festival, Pujie Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Yulan Festival, Quyuan Festival, Noon Festival, Daughter's Day, Dila Festival, Poet's Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Noon Festival, Lantern Festival and Five Eggs Festival.

Second, what is the first zongzi package?

According to records, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, glutinous rice was wrapped into horns with leaves of water bamboo, which was called "corn millet", and rice was sealed and baked in bamboo tubes, which was called "tube dumplings". At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, millet was soaked in plant ash water. Because the water contained alkali, glutinous rice was wrapped in water bamboo leaves and boiled into a quadrangle, which became the jiaozi of Guangdong alkaline water.

3. Why avoid drinking realgar wine after eating zongzi?

Realgar is a toxic ore containing arsenic. Adding realgar to wine will accelerate the absorption of arsenic and make it easy to be poisoned. For example, heating realgar wine is more dangerous. Realgar is easily decomposed into arsenic trioxide when heated, which is also commonly known as arsenic. It's no exaggeration! Drinking hot realgar wine is actually equivalent to eating arsenic, so don't drink realgar wine after eating zongzi.

4. Why do you want to eat Huang Wu on Dragon Boat Festival?

Huang Wu refers to: Monopterus albus, yellow croaker, cucumber, salted egg yolk and yellow rice wine.

According to Chinese medicine, the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the most prosperous time of the year, so we can combine the solar terms of the Dragon Boat Festival to enhance energy. Therefore, in ancient times, Huang Wu meal was only the ostentation and extravagance of the rich.

Five, wearing sachets is to absorb sweat.

The contents of sachets carried on the Dragon Boat Festival have changed several times, from sweat-absorbing mussel powder, exorcism symbols, copper coins and realgar powder to sachets filled with spices, making them more and more exquisite and becoming a unique folk art of the Dragon Boat Festival.