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

Dragon Boat Festival is also a rain festival and a farmers' day. As the saying goes, "You must eat salted eggs first, jiaozi." Dragon Boat Festival indicates that the hot summer is coming, and the life activities of animals and plants have entered a peak stage. Farmers speculate on the rainfall in the second half of the year according to the performance of the rain and solar terms of the Dragon Boat Festival, and adjust the farming in the second half of the year in time. In the agricultural proverb "It rains on the first day, boating on the fifth day, sharpening the knives on the thirteenth day, washing the streets on the seventeenth day and washing clothes on the eighteenth day (it will rain)", the agricultural proverb "It doesn't rain on the eighth day (the eighth day of May), and it doesn't rain on the eighth day of May" means that if it doesn't rain on the eighth day, more than 18% people will plant mung beans.

Eat tea eggs

In Nanchang, Jiangxi, besides eating zongzi, tea eggs and salted eggs are also cooked during the Dragon Boat Festival. Eggs are divided into eggs, duck eggs and goose eggs. The eggshell is painted red, wrapped in colorful net bags and hung around the child's neck, which means wishing the child "good luck and peace".

Eat garlic and 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 eggs and eat steamed bread with garlic eggs for breakfast. This way of eating is said to avoid the "five poisons" and is good for health.