What are the traditional dishes of Dragon Boat Festival?

Do you still eat zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival?

Except zongzi,

What other essential foods are there for the Dragon Boat Festival?

Today, Bian Xiao will introduce you to a special Dragon Boat Festival food.

Let's see. Have you eaten all these?

Are you sure you know all the traditional food of Dragon Boat Festival?

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Aimomo

Ai Mo steamed buns are steamed with mugwort leaves. Many places celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival. Rice flour or flour is fermented and steamed with mugwort, which tastes sweet and soft.

Folium Artemisiae Argyi, also known as Artemisia argyi, is lush during the Dragon Boat Festival, and its fragrance can rise yang without hurting yin, which meets the requirements of the ancients to help yang turn into qi and anode generate yin. In addition, Artemisia argyi contains a variety of volatile oils, which are fragrant and can repel insects and sterilize. Therefore, in ancient Dragon Boat Festival, people used to make all kinds of food with mugwort leaves to eliminate diseases and drive away plagues. This dietary custom continues to this day, and Ai Mo steamed bun is one of the more common ones.

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Dagao

Cake-making is a new year cake made by putting mugwort and glutinous rice in a big wooden trough chiseled with a single wood and repeatedly beating with a long-handled wooden pestle. Taste sweet and delicate, gluten palatable.

This is the most common food eaten by Korean people in Yanbian, Jilin Province on festive days such as festivals and celebrations, which represents peace and blessings and has a long history. Also as a gift. Therefore, on the important day of Dragon Boat Festival, it is natural to make cakes. Koreans have a saying? Eating cake in summer is like eating ginseng? Making cakes also has health care functions.

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Facial fan

Noodles fan, steamed with dough, fan-shaped, with 5 layers. Each layer is sprinkled with ground cooked peppers, and the surface is kneaded into various patterns and dyed, which is very beautiful. It is also used as a gift. In Minqin County and Ningxia, Gansu Province, the Dragon Boat Festival is steamed. Fans? .

This diet custom is said to have evolved from the custom of making fans, selling fans and sending them away during the Dragon Boat Festival, which means safety and health. In ancient times, during the Dragon Boat Festival, when the temperature rose, fans became timely items, and people bought and sold fans. As for sending fans, the ancients thought that evil spirits could be fanned away (in fact, mosquitoes and flies were driven away), which meant praying for good luck, avoiding evil spirits and eliminating disasters.

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Fried pile

Frying is to mix flour, rice flour or sweet potato powder with other ingredients to form a thick paste, and fry it in an oil pan into large pieces.

In Jinjiang, Fujian, does everyone eat Dragon Boat Festival? Blow up the pile? . According to legend, in ancient times, it rained continuously in southern Fujian before the Dragon Boat Festival. People say that God pierced the hole. Fill the sky? . Did you eat during the Dragon Boat Festival? Blow up the pile? After the rain stopped, people said they had mended the sky. This diet custom comes from this.

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pancake

Pancakes are made of refined white flour into paste and baked in an iron frying pan into translucent cakes, which look like a full moon and are as thin as silk. The fillings are rich and varied, including mung bean sprouts, leeks, shredded pork, shredded eggs, mushrooms and so on. Rolled into a tube, chewed in one bite and varied in taste.

In Minnan, Hailufeng and Wenzhou, every family has this custom of Dragon Boat Festival, which represents a rich life. People get together and put cakes and various fillings, just like eating a buffet. They are free to make their own rolls and chat while tasting, which also shows their affection.

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Tea eggs

Tea egg, a kind of flavored boiled egg with tea added in the cooking process. In Nanchang, Jiangxi, tea eggs and salted eggs are boiled during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Eggs include eggs, duck eggs and goose eggs. People like to paint eggshells red, put them in colorful net bags and hang them around children's necks, which means wishing them good luck and safety.

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duck's egg

Dragon boat festival is said to be avoidable? Five poisons? That is, snakes, centipedes, spiders, geckos and scorpions. It is said that they will harm the world during the Dragon Boat Festival. People use five kinds of yellow plates to symbolize the blood of five poisons. Eating these dishes will scare away the five poisons, that is? Eat Huang Wu? They are eel, yellow croaker, cucumber, duck egg and realgar wine.

Eating duck eggs on Dragon Boat Festival is very important to ward off evil spirits and relieve summer heat.

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finless eel

Monopterus albus, also known as eel and long fish, is round during the Dragon Boat Festival, with tender and delicious meat and rich nutrition. It not only tastes good, but also has nourishing effect. Dragon Boat Festival Eel Race Ginseng? Said. Besides, what about eels? Huang Wu? On the one hand, the ancients believed that eating Monopterus albus during the Dragon Boat Festival could ward off evil spirits and get rid of diseases.

China Jianghan Plain Dragon Boat Festival, we must eat Monopterus albus.

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Garlic egg

Garlic eggs, that is, garlic and eggs are cooked together, and some put a few mugwort leaves when cooking garlic and eggs.

In rural areas of Henan, Zhejiang and other provinces, every Dragon Boat Festival, housewives get up very early and cook garlic eggs for breakfast. It is said that eating fried garlic and eggs for breakfast can be avoided? Five poisons? , good for health.

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realgar wine

Realgar wine is a blend of white wine and realgar. People believe that drinking realgar wine on Dragon Boat Festival can exorcise evil spirits and detoxify.

But modern people also find that realgar wine contains highly toxic arsenic, so they basically don't drink realgar wine. However, during the Dragon Boat Festival, some people will mainly use realgar, add spices such as angelica dahurica and lavender to make sachets, and also make realgar smoked strips to ward off evil spirits, insects and snake injuries.

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Baizongzi

Xiaozongzi is the most classic food of Dragon Boat Festival, but the appearance and taste of different regions are different.

For example, there are zongzi, mung bean zongzi, barbecued pork bun, eight-treasure zongzi and roasted meat zongzi in Taiwan Province Province. Among them, white zongzi, steamed with sticky rice wrapped in leaves, tastes natural and fragrant, which can be described as unpretentious.

Dragon Boat Festival traditional cuisine

zongzi

Zongzi is fragrant during the Dragon Boat Festival. According to legend, during the Dragon Boat Festival in 278 BC, Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet exiled to the Miluo River, learned that the capital of Chu had fallen, and in desperation, he threw a big stone into the Miluo River and committed suicide. So, legend? Dragon Boat Festival? This is the anniversary of Qu Yuan. Eating zongzi and racing dragon boats on the Dragon Boat Festival has become a traditional custom in China to commemorate Qu Yuan. From ancient times to the present, the Dragon Boat Festival carries people's feelings about life: missing, gratitude, yearning and praying.

duck's egg

In addition to commemorating Qu Yuan, the Dragon Boat Festival is also to avoid the Five Poisons. Because the legendary monster with five poisons will do harm to human beings during the Dragon Boat Festival. These poisonous monsters are snakes, centipedes, spiders, geckos and scorpions. People use five kinds of red plates to symbolize the blood of five poisons. Eating these dishes will scare away the five poisons, that is, eating five reds, namely roast duck, amaranth, duck eggs with red oil, lobster and realgar wine. It is said that eating these five kinds of red on Dragon Boat Festival can ward off evil spirits and spend the summer. Similar to Wu Hong, Jiangnan also has the custom of eating Huang Wu during the Dragon Boat Festival. Huang Wu refers to eel, yellow croaker, cucumber, salted duck eggs and realgar wine. There is a folk saying that duck eggs are eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival to ward off evil spirits and summer heat, so whether it is Wuhong or Huang Wu, duck eggs are included.

Aimomo

During the Dragon Boat Festival in many places, rice flour or flour is fermented and steamed with mugwort. 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.

Five reds?

In Yangzhou's traditional folk customs, besides zongzi, we also eat it during the Dragon Boat Festival. Five reds? Roast duck, amaranth, duck eggs, lobster, yellow croaker or eel can ward off evil spirits and relieve summer heat all summer. Red amaranth is indispensable on the dining table; The price of salted duck eggs with red hearts is not high; Realgar is orange after soaking in wine; Buy some river shrimp. After frying, shrimp shells are red and shiny. Roast duck is on the market, and it doesn't cost much to cut a breast or leg (1/4) in a duck shop, so the so-called? Five reds? It has also become a must-have menu on the Dragon Boat Festival table.

Tea 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.

Dagao

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.

Garlic egg

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. It is said that eating fried garlic and eggs for breakfast can be avoided? Five poisons? , good for health.

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