Anhui Dragon Boat Festival to eat what food Anhui Dragon Boat Festival customs

1, zongzi

Duanwu Festival to eat zongzi, is now the only remaining most people know more about a Dragon Boat Festival customs. The earliest is to commemorate Qu Yuan, slowly, zongzi gradually evolved into a popular favorite cuisine. Just into the lunar month of May, some people in Hefei began to dip the glutinous rice, followed by washing the leaves of the dumplings, wrapped dumplings.

2, mung bean cake

Older generation of Hefei people know, Hefei in the old days had "early Dragon Boat Festival late Mid-Autumn Festival" said that the Dragon Boat Festival is generally the morning over, Mid-Autumn Festival is generally the evening over. Dragon Boat Festival day, get up early in the morning must eat dumplings and green bean cake. The reason why the choice of mung bean cake, because the southern temperatures hot and humid, and mung beans are sweet and cold, just used to clear heat and detoxification. So the Dragon Boat Festival to eat mung bean cake in addition to meet the people's mouth, or disease prevention and fitness, to meet the summer heat of the reality of the choice.

3, fruit

In the Shucheng area, the Dragon Boat Festival popular "eating fruit", the local folk proverb says: "Dragon Boat Festival to eat an apricot, to the old not sick; Dragon Boat Festival to eat a peach to the old without worrying about". Dragon Boat Festival day, Huaibei, Bengbu area children, wrists, ankles and neck, to "bind the flower line", it is said to ward off evil spirits, to prevent drowning. In folklore, but also catch toads as medicine.

4, eel turtle

In the Hefei area, there is a special food custom, is to eat eel turtle Dragon Boat Festival, called "arrow pole eel horseshoe turtle". In addition, around the Chaohu Lake area, there is also a popular "hiding noon" custom, that is, to the noon of the Dragon Boat Festival, families do not raise the fire, with food such as dumplings to the field to eat, the daughter married out, back to her mother's home for the festival.

5, the afternoon

and the county area, the Dragon Boat Festival lunch is known as the "noon", to drink wine, eat anchovies, dried geese and other meat, but also at noon in the courtyard insert chopsticks, in order to test the noon.

6, flower cake and amaranth

In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival day to eat flower cake and amaranth, flower cake is steamed with sugar, shaped like a treasure, butterflies, the surface of the red flower embellishments, for children love to eat seasonal snacks. Amaranth is also an indispensable seasonal dish. It is said that drinking staghorn wine can prevent scabies, eating amaranth can clean the abdomen, called "playing wave intestines" in the vernacular.

7, Dragon Boat Festival Po

Huaining area in addition to eating rice dumplings, but also eat "Dragon Boat Festival Po", that is, with fine flour and wine brewing, put the green tung leaves or lotus leaves, after fermentation, steamed, sweet and fragrant. Artemesia is also one of the most popular dishes. Artemesia Po Po, a specialty food circulating in the Jianghuai and Jiangnan regions of Anhui, is mainly refined with artemesia seeds, rice flour and bacon as ingredients.

8, five yellow

Huangshan area, in addition to eating zongzi, mung bean cake, but also to eat "five yellow": cucumber, eel, yellow fish, yellow wine, salted egg yolk. However, with the passage of time, many Hefei people most in the Dragon Boat Festival to eat salted duck eggs. The best time to eat "five yolks" is at noon on the Dragon Boat Festival, at this moment, with the "five yolks" to drive away evil spirits and detoxify the effect, you can reverse your fortune, everything goes well.

In addition to the food is concerned, in the wear should also have the characteristics of the Dragon Boat Festival. On this day, people will be embroidered with scorpions, centipedes, vipers, toads, geckos, the "five poison" image of the bibs to small children to wear, you can drive the "five poisons", to prevent the plague. And incense packet is also in the Dragon Boat Festival day to the child's best gift. Fragrant packets filled with xionghuang, vanilla with the spices, worn on the body to drive away insects in addition to the role of filth. Some people will also hang the portrait of Zhong Kui to protect themselves from evil spirits.