Why do you eat fish during the Dragon Boat Festival?

Because you want to eat "Huang Wu+a fish" during the Dragon Boat Festival-Monopterus albus, yellow rice, cucumber, salted egg yolk, realgar wine and Danjiang fish (realgar is poisonous, so you usually drink ordinary yellow wine instead of realgar wine). In Henan, Hubei and Shaanxi provinces, this is a kind of fish that people often eat during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Huang Wu and fish meal are most suitable for the Dragon Boat Festival at noon, that is, mixing five kinds of yellow food together and stewing a pot of Danjiang fish soup, which is a Dragon Boat Festival delicacy for every household. Because Chinese medicine believes that the Dragon Boat Festival is on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, which is the busiest time of the year, and noon is also the busiest time of the day. You can use the solar terms of the Dragon Boat Festival to curb bad luck and enhance your energy.

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Dragon boat festival custom

1, eat zongzi

In 340 BC, Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet and doctor of Chu, faced the pain of national subjugation. On May 5th, he threw a big stone into Guluo River with grief and indignation. In order to prevent fish and shrimp from damaging his health, people have thrown rice in bamboo tubes into the river. In the future, people will put rice in bamboo tubes and throw it into the river to pay homage to Qu Yuan. This is the origin of the earliest zongzi-"Tongzong".

2. Dragon Boat Race

Legend has it that the dragon boat race originated in the ancient State of Chu, and many people rowed to save people because they could not bear the death of the sage Qu Yuan. They compete to catch up with each other until they reach Dongting Lake, and then they row a dragon boat to commemorate it on May 5th every year. Rowing a dragon boat to disperse the fish in the river so as not to eat Qu Yuan's body.

3, with sachets

Children wear sachets, which is said to mean to ward off evil spirits and drive away epidemics. In fact, they are used to decorate and decorate the inner head. The sachet is wrapped in silk cloth, which is full of fragrance, and then tied into a rope with five-color silk thread to make a series of different shapes, all kinds of exquisite and lovely. In some cities in southern China, young men and women also use sachets to express their love.