What do the five reds and Huang Wu mean on the Dragon Boat Festival?

"Five red dishes" is the custom of Dragon Boat Festival in Nanjing and other places. Nanjing people pay attention to eating "five red dishes" on the Dragon Boat Festival to ward off evil spirits and cool off the heat. "Five reds" are "roast duck, amaranth, duck eggs in red oil, river shrimp and yellow croaker".

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 in a duck shop, so "Five Red" has become a necessary menu on the Dragon Boat Festival table.

China Jiangnan folk Dragon Boat Festival has the custom of eating "Huang Wu". "Huang Wu" refers to Monopterus albus, yellow croaker, cucumber, salted duck eggs and realgar wine. There are other sayings that salted duck eggs can be replaced by soybeans. ?

Legend has it that in The Legend of the White Snake, the White Snake drinks realgar wine, showing its original shape. Therefore, people think that poisonous insects such as snakes, scorpions and centipedes can be cracked with realgar wine, and drinking realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival can exorcise evil spirits and detoxify and maintain good health. According to folklore, eating Huang Wu at noon can better ward off evil spirits.

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First, the legend of five reds

The custom of Dragon Boat Festival varies from place to place. For example, in the Jiangnan water town represented by Suzhou, the Dragon Boat Festival is characterized by "five whites", namely, white cut meat, white chopped chicken, white tofu, white garlic and white water bamboo. Northern Jiangsu, represented by Yangzhou, 12 red. There are mainly braised fish, fried shrimp, carrots and braised pork. Since the early 1970s, lobsters began to climb the table, and many people began to use lobsters instead of river shrimps.

Mr. Wang believes that from the Dragon Boat Festival customs in Nanjing, Nanjing is an inclusive city, and she embraces the customs of other cities. Nowadays, few Nanjing people have been from Nanjing for generations, and many of them are from Henan, Anhui, Zhejiang and Su Beiren. These people from other places brought the local customs and customs of their hometown, and were gradually accepted by Nanjing, an inclusive city. Now they have "five reds".

Second, the main customs of the Dragon Boat Festival

The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival mainly include dragon boat picking, Dragon Boat Festival, herb picking, hanging wormwood and calamus, ancestor worship, washing herbal water, drinking water at noon, soaking in dragon boats, eating zongzi, flying kites, tying colorful silk thread, smoking Atractylodes lancea and wearing sachets.

Dragon Boat Race is very popular in the southern coastal areas of China, which is deeply loved by people all over the world and has formed an international competition. The custom of eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival has been popular all over China since ancient times, and it has become one of the most influential and widespread folk food customs of the Chinese nation.

Performing traditional folk activities during the Dragon Boat Festival can not only enrich people's spiritual and cultural life, but also inherit and carry forward traditional culture. As an important part of China traditional culture, Dragon Boat Festival culture embodies the long history and profoundness of China culture. Dragon Boat Festival culture has a wide influence in the world, and some countries and regions in the world also celebrate it.

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