Why do you want to eat eggs on March 3?

The origin of eating eggs on March 3 is as follows:

1. The first story is that every year on the third day of the third lunar month, it is the day when Han people greet their ancestors' souls and mourn their ancestors by eating eggs, hoping to get some aura.

2. The second story is about the communication custom of young men and women in March 3rd Song City of Zhuang nationality: touching eggs. Eggs are things that dye boiled eggs in various colors to convey feelings. The young man held an egg in the song market to touch the egg in the girl's hand; If the girl doesn't want to, just take the egg and don't touch it. If it's urgent, let the boys touch it. After the egg cracked, they ate the egg, which sowed the seeds of love.

There has always been a saying that people eat eggs on March 3, and the most common thing is to cook eggs with local dishes. Eating eggs on March 3 means eating boiled eggs will not cause headaches. According to legend, in Chu, people have headaches because of wind and rain. On the third day of March, Shennong passed Yunmengze and saw that the villagers had a terrible headache. He found wild eggs and vegetables and cooked them to satisfy people's hunger.

People eat their heads and the pain stops. On March 3, the custom of eating vegetables and boiling eggs for a year without headaches continued to this day. Wild vegetables, also known as native vegetables and wild vegetables, are a kind of wild vegetables that grow in a corner of the field. Although it is a wild vegetable, it is delicious and nutritious. Folk Proverbs Day: On March 3rd, mangcai is a panacea. On March 3, Mangcai boiled eggs.

Spring is the season to eat wild vegetables. Eating mangcai in spring is also a long-standing traditional custom of China people. The Book of Songs has a chant of "sweet as a wayward person"; Xin Qiji also has a poem that "peaches and plums are full of worries, and spring is at the head of the stream".