Duanwu Festival boiled eggs cooked singular or even number

The number of boiled eggs for the Dragon Boat Festival is not fixed, it can be odd or even, depending on the number of people in the family, how long the number of people to cook a little more, the number of people less to cook a little less.

Like dumplings, eggs are also an important food for the Dragon Boat Festival. In the morning, before the child gets out of bed, adults will bring eggs to the child's mouth. Eating eggs is said to make the heart grow. Because eggs resemble the heart, it is generally believed that eating eggs can protect the spirit from loss. Eggs are eaten at the Dragon Boat Festival partly for good luck and to pray for a year without illness, and partly to improve one's life.

Boiling eggs with mugwort leaves will not only have the unique fragrance of mugwort leaves, but also get rid of bad luck and diseases.

Duanwu Festival customs:

1, eat zongzi

Zongzi as sacrificial offerings, as early as the Spring and Autumn period has appeared, but zongzi was formally designated as a Dragon Boat Festival food, is in the Jin Dynasty, this period, the package of zongzi raw materials, in addition to glutinous rice, but also added the traditional Chinese medicine Yizhi Ren, cooked zongzi called "Yizhi zongzi".

2, tethered five-color thread

Traditional Chinese culture, symbolizing the five parties and five elements of the five colors "green, red, white, black, yellow" is regarded as an auspicious color. On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, children tie five-colored threads around their wrists and ankles to protect their well-being.

3, drink xionghuang wine

Duanwu drink xionghuang wine custom, ancient times in the Yangtze River Basin region is extremely prevalent. As the old saying goes, "If you drink Xionghuang wine, all the diseases will be far away".

4, Dragon Boat Race

Dragon Boat Race is one of the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival is one of the most important festivals of folklore activities, prevalent in the southern region of China, in the north of the city near the river and lake there are also Dragon Boat Race custom, and most of them are paddling dry Dragon Boat Dance in the form of a Dragon Boat.

5, hanging moxa leaves calamus

Duanwu Festival hanging calamus is to allow those infested with snakes, insects, rodents and ants bypass. Acorus calamus, in folklore, has been known as "mosquito repellent little hand" title.

6, eat salted duck eggs

Duanwu Festival is in midsummer, the weather is hot and humid, it is easy to breed bacteria, causing "plague sores" type of disease; and duck eggs shaped like a heart, the ancients believe that eating duck eggs can protect the heart from aggression.