The origin of Dragon Boat Festival is 50 words.

Dragon Boat Festival was originally a festival in which ancient ancestors sacrificed their ancestors in the form of dragon boat races. It is said that Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State in the Warring States Period, threw himself into the Miluo River during the Dragon Boat Festival. Later, people also took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan.

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Dietary customs of Dragon Boat Festival:

1, tea picking and herbal tea making

Nan 'an District, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province has the custom of making tea and grass during the Dragon Boat Festival. Inheriting this tradition, local people will collect herbs to make herbal tea during the Dragon Boat Festival.

2, eat five poison cakes

This ruling cake is actually a rose cake, and the cake outside is printed with five patterns: scorpion, clam, spider, centipede and snake. May of the lunar calendar is in midsummer, and five kinds of "poisons" begin to appear. Insects such as mosquitoes and flies are easy to breed and spread epidemics, so the Dragon Boat Festival has been regarded as a "health day" since ancient times. Eating five-poison cake is a blessing to eliminate disasters and protect family health.

3. Fried cake

This kind of oil cake is a special food for northerners during the Dragon Boat Festival. This kind of fried cake has a soft crust and a sweet filling. It is fried in a frying pan with hot oil noodles wrapped in white sugar, cinnamon and roses.

Step 4 make a fan

This is the eating custom of Gansu Dragon Boat Festival. During the Dragon Boat Festival, this eating habit evolved from the custom of controlling, selling and giving away fans. Face fan is steamed in the form of a fan, which generally has five layers, each layer is coated with pepper, and the surface has to be pinched out with various patterns, which will look good after dyeing.

Step 5 eat minced meat noodles

On the Dragon Boat Festival, people in Shaanxi eat unclean noodles. There are dozens of kinds of noodles with minced meat, of which Shaanxi noodles with minced meat are the most famous. Noodles are characterized by being slender, uniform in thickness, fragrant and refreshing, bright and ruddy in noodle soup, and soft and smooth in taste.

Step 6 eat eels

Monopterus albus is a must-eat food in Jianghan Plain during Dragon Boat Festival. May of the lunar calendar is the harvest season of Monopterus albus. At this time, the eel meat is tender and delicious, and the nourishing effect is excellent. According to Compendium of Materia Medica, Monopterus albus has the functions of enriching blood, benefiting qi, diminishing inflammation, disinfecting and expelling wind and dampness.

7. Drink calamus wine

Acorus calamus is the protagonist of the Dragon Boat Festival. It is not only used for decoration, such as Pu Jian, Pu Ren and Pu Xie, but also for wine making, such as Acorus calamus. According to ancient books, drinking Pu wine has the effect of ward off evil spirits. Drinking Pu wine slowly has become the tradition of the Dragon Boat Festival. During the Dragon Boat Festival, many areas will drink Pu wine.

8. Eat mung bean cake

Mung bean cake is the food of Dragon Boat Festival in many areas.

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