What are the dietary customs around the Dragon Boat Festival?

What are the dietary customs around the Dragon Boat Festival?

1, eat zongzi

Zongzi was called "crossing toes" in ancient times. Legend has it that it was invented to sacrifice Qu Yuan who threw himself into the river. Zongzi with real written records can be found in the local records of the Jin and Zhou Dynasties. The most widespread and oldest zongzi is the honey-juice zongzi of Xi 'an, which is included in the cookbook of Juyuan in Tang Wei.

Generally speaking, people all over the world have the same custom of celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival. Eating zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival is the same in China. Now zongzi is more diverse and colorful. Nowadays, zongzi are usually wrapped in glutinous rice shells, but the color contained in them depends on local specialties and customs. Eating zongzi after heating is not only safe and hygienic, but also reduces the burden of digestion.

Step 2 Eat "Huang Wu"

There is a custom of eating "Huang Wu" on the Dragon Boat Festival in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. Huang Wu refers to cucumber, Monopterus albus, yellow croaker, duck egg yolk and realgar wine in Gaoyou. In addition, there is a custom of eating tofu on the Dragon Boat Festival in northern Zhejiang.

Step 3 eat tea and eggs

In Nanchang, Jiangxi, tea eggs and salted eggs are boiled 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.

Step 4 drink realgar wine

The custom of drinking realgar wine on Dragon Boat Festival is very popular in the Yangtze River valley. There is an old saying: "Drink realgar wine and all diseases will disappear." Realgar is a mineral, commonly known as "Jiguanshi". Its main component is arsenic sulfide, which contains mercury and is toxic. Many people drink realgar wine on Dragon Boat Festival, but it is not recommended to take it orally because the main component of realgar is arsenic disulfide, which can be decomposed into highly toxic arsenic when heated. Generally, it is only made by adding a small amount of realgar to white wine or homemade yellow wine, and there is no pure drink.

Generally, realgar wine has the efficacy of sterilization, insect repellent and detoxification, and traditional Chinese medicine is also used to treat skin diseases. For children under drinking age, adults apply realgar wine to forehead, ears, ears, hands, feet, heart and other parts to disinfect and prevent diseases.

Step 5 eat oil cakes

In addition to eating zongzi, you should also eat oil cakes during the Dragon Boat Festival. Oil cakes should be made of scalded oil noodles, wrapped with stuffing made of white sugar, yellow cinnamon, roses, walnuts and lard, and fried in an oil pan. The epidermis is loose, the stuffing is sweet and the appearance is beautiful.

Step 6 eat garlic eggs

Every Dragon Boat Festival, housewives in rural areas of Henan, Zhejiang and other provinces get up early and make garlic and eggs 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.

7. Eat fried piles

In Jinjiang, Fujian, every household has to eat "fried piles" during the Dragon Boat Festival. The so-called fried pile is made of flour, rice flour or sweet potato powder into a thick paste and fried into a large piece in an oil pan. According to legend, in ancient times, it was the rainy season in southern Fujian before the Dragon Boat Festival, with continuous rain. People say that God has pierced a hole to "mend the sky". The rain stopped after eating fried piles on the Dragon Boat Festival. People say that the sky has been mended. This diet custom comes from this.

8. Picking tea and making herbal tea

In some areas in the north, people like to pick tender leaves and steam wild vegetable leaves to make tea during the Dragon Boat Festival. In Chaozhou, Guangdong, people go to the suburbs of Shan Ye to collect herbs and cook herbal tea. This is also good for health.

9, sugar jujube glutinous rice

On the Dragon Boat Festival, Naxi people want to eat glutinous rice with sugar dates. Glutinous rice can warm spleen and lungs and tonify deficiency and cold. And glutinous rice will contain glutinous rice, glutinous rice contains a lot of vitamins, a lot of phosphorus, calcium, iron, protein and fat, which will increase the amount of blood in human blood. Therefore, it is necessary to pay special attention to the fact that diabetics should not eat.

10, eat minced meat noodles

Shaanxi people must eat whistle noodles during the Dragon Boat Festival. Noodles with minced meat are Shaanxi snacks with dozens of varieties, among which Qishan noodles with minced meat are the most famous. The characteristics of minced meat noodles are that the noodles are slender, uniform in thickness, fresh and fragrant in minced meat, and the noodle soup is shiny and ruddy. Qishan noodles with minced meat have a strong local flavor. It is thin, tough, light, soft, sour, spicy and fragrant, and it tastes flexible and smooth.

1 1, eat yezibo

Yezibo is a holiday food for Yulin people, especially during the Dragon Boat Festival and the Double Ninth Festival. There are many legends about Ye Zibo that can't be tested. One thing is certain, that is, it has a long history. Later, Coconut Castle gradually evolved into a popular traditional snack in Yulin.

12, eat cake

Dragon Boat Festival is a grand festival for Korean people in Yanbian, Jilin Province. The most representative food on this day is sweet 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.

13, eat momo

Many places also use rice flour or flour to ferment steamed mugwort buns during the Dragon Boat Festival. Folium Artemisiae Argyi contains a variety of volatile oils, which are fragrant, can repel insects and sterilize, and have inhibitory effects on a variety of bacteria and certain skin fungi. Therefore, in ancient times, mugwort was essential for the Dragon Boat Festival, whether it was eaten or used.

14, eating noodles fans

In Minqin County, Gansu Province, vermicelli is steamed during the Dragon Boat Festival. The noodle fan is steamed with hair noodles, which is fan-shaped and has five layers. Each layer is sprinkled with ground cooked peppers, and the surface is kneaded into various patterns and dyed, which is very beautiful. This diet custom is said to have evolved from the custom of making, selling and sending fans on the Dragon Boat Festival.

15, eat pancakes

In Wenzhou, every household still has the custom of eating pancakes during the Dragon Boat Festival. Pancakes are made of white flour into a paste, baked in a large flat iron frying pan into a full moon-shaped, silky translucent cake, stuffed with mung bean sprouts, leeks, shredded pork, shredded eggs and mushrooms, rolled into a tube, and bitten in one bite, which can taste a variety of flavors.

16, eat peaches, eggplant and kidney beans.

There is a saying in Sichuan that eating peaches, eggplant and kidney beans during the Dragon Boat Festival is suspected of health care and longevity. As the saying goes, eating eggplant will make you tremble, but eating beans will make you old. Hakka people in Miaoli also eat eggplant, long beans and peaches and plums during the Dragon Boat Festival. But the symbolic meaning of these foods is different from that of southerners. Eating plums represents offspring reproduction, and some people think that suspicion can resist heatstroke. Eating long beans can avoid being bitten by snakes (because long beans are shaped like snakes). Eating eggplant can resist mosquito bites (eggplant is called "hanging vegetables" in Hakka dialect, and biting people is "ㄉㄠ", which is homophonic).

—— Excerpted from China Food Science and Technology Network.