What's delicious on March 3rd?

On March 3, there was another eating custom last Wednesday, that is, eating "spring cakes", making noodles into pancakes, peeling and mashing eggs. Some people add garlic paste and roll up pancakes to eat. Some places have long been warm, and shallots have been eaten with spring cakes. There is another interesting story about the origin of spring cakes: It is said that in the Song Dynasty, a scholar named Hao Chen and a good wife named Ayu loved each other deeply.

Hao Chen is absorbed in reading, but often forgets to eat. This really worries Ayu. She thought and thought, and finally came up with a way to make spring cakes, which can be eaten as both rice and vegetables. Chen Hao eats spring cakes while reading. His food is delicious, which makes him more energetic when reading. Soon, Hao Chen went to Beijing to take an exam. Ayu made spring cakes and fried them for her husband. As a result, Hao Chen won the first prize, so he was very happy. He gave his wife's spring cake dry food to the examiner to taste. As soon as the examiner ate it, he was full of praise and immediately wrote a poem composition called "Spring Roll".

2. Artemisia argyi Baba

Before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, wormwood grows luxuriantly, which is the most tender season. As the third day of the third lunar month approaches Tomb-Sweeping Day, wormwood cakes have become a must-eat food on the third. Cleaning the picked Folium Artemisiae Argyi, cooking, chopping, mixing with glutinous rice flour and yellow sugar, and kneading into dark green oblate Ciba. Finally, put banana leaves on the bottom and steam them in a steamer to make soft and sweet wormwood. The stuffing in wormwood can be salty or sweet.

3. Black rice

She nationality, every household cooks black rice, and the whole family eats a meal as a gift for relatives and friends to celebrate the "Black Rice Festival". Legend has it that Lei Wanxing, a hero of the She nationality in the Tang Dynasty, led the rebel army to fight against the encirclement and suppression of government troops, and his military strength increased greatly because of the black barnyard grass fruit. On March 3, the breakthrough was successful and Lien Chan won. In order to commemorate this event, she people eat black rice on March 3 every year and get together to sing. On the third day of the third lunar month, Wuzhou still has the custom of eating black rice. Black rice can exorcise evil spirits, strengthen the body and warm the stomach. It is a popular traditional food with its unique maple flavor and black and shiny color, cooked with fried and mashed peanuts and sausages.

4. Zhuang Zongning Ming

Zhuang Zongzi is a kind of big zongzi cake cooked with glutinous rice and pork, which is a traditional food specially made by Zhuang people on March 3. Zhuang Jia Zongzi originated in Song Dynasty and is called "Wind Mill". It's an extra-large Zongba. On New Year's Eve, the girls fished out the "phoenix ink" cooked in the first month from the iron pot. On the fifteenth day of the first month, all the married girls will go back to their parents' home for dinner, and their parents will open the meal and distribute it to the whole family. Children must eat all the wind to show filial piety and pray for their parents' longevity.

5.water chrysanthemum cake

Every year on the third day of the third lunar month, Taihu County and Anqing Buried Hill have the custom of eating chrysanthemums. Chrysanthemum morifolium, also known as Daqu grass, is a clear dish, a cold dish and a shabu-shabu dish, with tiny head-shaped flowers in April and May. It grows in Yuan Ye, Tiankan and roadside in Central China, East China, South China and Southwest China. In spring, tender stems and leaves can be picked, washed, mixed with glutinous rice flour, steamed or fried. The southwestern provinces are called "Qingming Ba".