Why the Dragon Boat Festival should crash eggs

Eating eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival is a tradition, and every year adults will make an 'egg bib', fill it with hard-boiled eggs and hang it around their necks to go out and play games. The egg bag looks like a small net. The children would pick a thicker skinned one and hit their partner's hard-boiled egg with the stronger-looking end, and the one whose shell was broken first would lose.

Folklore has it that eating eggs gives you a heart. Because the egg is shaped like a heart, it is widely believed that eating eggs can make the heart spirit is not loss. Dragon Boat Festival eating eggs on the one hand is to figure auspicious, pray for a year without illness, on the other hand is to improve life. On the Dragon Boat Festival to eat eggs of folklore, folklore has circulated a legend:

Legends long ago, there is a plague god in the sky, every year at the Dragon Boat Festival always sneak to the folk to sow disease, the victims are mostly children, light fever anorexia, heavy bedridden. Mothers are very distressed about this, and have to burn incense and kowtow to the temple of Nuwa Nyunta, begging her to eliminate the disaster and bless the future generations.

When Nuwawa learned of this, she went to the God of Plague and said, "I will never allow you to harm any of my children." The God of Plague knew that Nuwa's power was immense and did not dare to go against her, so he asked, "I wonder how many first-born children do you have in the lower realms?"

Nuwa smiled and said, "I have a lot of children, so let's do it this way: on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival every year, I order my first-born children to hang an egg bag on the front of their lapels, and any child who has an egg bag hanging on his lapel will not be permitted to do anything you want to do."

This year at the Dragon Boat Festival, the God of Pestilence came down to the realm again, only to see that the children all had a small mesh bag hanging from their chests containing hard-boiled, salted eggs. The plague god thought they were all Nuwa's children, so he didn't dare to do any harm. In this way, the custom of eating eggs at the Dragon Boat Festival gradually spread.

Expanded information:

Duanwu Eating Eggs:

1, Tea Eggs:

Nanchang area in Jiangxi Province, the Dragon Boat Festival, tea eggs and salted eggs are boiled and eaten. Eggs are eggs, duck eggs, goose eggs. The eggshells are painted red and packed in colorful net bags and hung around the necks of small children, meaning that the children are blessed with good fortune and peace.

2, salt eggs:

It is said that in the pot of boiled rice dumplings at the same time cooking some eggs, duck eggs, goose eggs, eat sweet rice dumplings dipped in sugar, and then eat eggs dipped in salt, "pressure top", so that you can be a summer does not give birth to sores; rice dumplings pot of boiled duck eggs, goose eggs placed in the noonday sunshine for a while and then eat, you can eat the whole summer! I'm not a headache.

3, garlic eggs:

Henan, Zhejiang and other provinces in the countryside every Dragon Boat Festival day, the housewife got up especially early, will be prepared in advance of the garlic and eggs cooked together for the family to eat for breakfast. Some places, but also in the cooking garlic and eggs put a few pieces of mugwort leaves. Breakfast food garlic, eggs, fried bread, this diet is said to avoid the "five poisons", good health.

4, hard-boiled eggs:

Duanwu morning, the Northeast area is by the elders will be boiled chicken, duck and goose eggs on the children's belly rolling, and then peeled for children to eat. Mom, grandma will also take the warm eggs in the child's belly roll a few times, while doing the side said "a year will not have a stomach ache," a kind of words. On this day, married aunts also bring hard-boiled eggs to their nephews, sending their blessings for the year.

5, salted duck eggs:

Duanwu Festival to eat salted duck eggs is also a major custom, as the saying goes: "to eat salted eggs dumplings, before the cold sent." Because after the Dragon Boat Festival heralded the arrival of the hot summer, plant and animal life activities into the peak stage, coupled with the humid climate, pests and bacteria are active, prone to cause many diseases. Eating salted duck eggs at the Dragon Boat Festival can dispel toxins and help keep the body healthy.

6, skin eggs:

Duanwu Festival in addition to salt eggs, Wuhan people also like to eat skin eggs. Raw materials of skin eggs can be eggs, duck eggs, quail eggs, etc., the finished product to have pine flowers of pine eggs is good. In the southeastern coastal areas, the Dragon Boat Festival day, there is a "standing egg" custom: in the Dragon Boat Festival this day at 12 noon to try to stand up the egg, it is said that the success of the standing egg when the wish will certainly be realized.

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