What to eat at the Dragon Boat Festival in the north?

1. Eat garlic and eggs. On Dragon Boat Festival, housewives at home get up early and cook garlic and eggs prepared in advance for breakfast. In some places, put some mugwort leaves when cooking garlic and eggs. Eating garlic, eggs and fried buns for breakfast is said to avoid the "five poisons" and is good for health.

2. Eat tea eggs, and cook tea eggs and salted eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival. Eggs include eggs, duck eggs and goose eggs. The eggshell is painted red, packed in colorful net bags and hung around the child's neck, which means wishing the child good luck and safety.

3, eat cake, the most representative food of this day is the delicious cake. Caking is to put mugwort and glutinous rice in a big wooden trough carved from a single wood and beat it with a long-handled wooden pestle. This kind of food has national characteristics and can add festive atmosphere. The Dragon Boat Festival also has the custom of eating "five reds" and "Huang Wu". The so-called "five red vegetables" usually refer to amaranth, eggplant, carrot, tomato and shrimp. The so-called "yellow cabbage" usually refers to cucumber, eel, yellow croaker, duck egg yolk and realgar wine.