Nine kinds of food must be eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival, traditional food.

Nine kinds of food must be eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival.

1 Zongzi

"Eating Zongzi on Drago

Nine kinds of food must be eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival, traditional food.

Nine kinds of food must be eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival.

1 Zongzi

"Eating Zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival" originated in 340 BC. Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet, faced the pain of national subjugation and threw himself into the river on May 5th. Fishermen and people on the shore came to the river to salvage. At that time, in order to prevent fish and shrimp from eating his body, people used bamboo tubes to put rice and eggs into the river, and some doctors even poured realgar wine into the river to stun dragons and wild animals with drugs, so that Dr. Qu Yuan was not hurt. Since then, in order to commemorate him, people throw zongzi and row dragon boats on the river on the fifth day of May every year. In memory of the great patriotic poet.

2. Eel

Dragon Boat Festival is not only the time to eat zongzi, but also the most tender and nutritious time of eel meat in a year, so there is a saying that "the eel competes for ginseng in Dragon Boat Festival". Monopterus albus has always been a popular kind of freshwater aquatic products because of its soft and smooth taste, especially for children and the elderly, and it is a good tonic. Monopterus albus is warm and sweet, and enters the liver, spleen and kidney meridians. Has the effects of invigorating middle warmer, invigorating qi, nourishing blood, invigorating spleen, nourishing essence, stopping bleeding, expelling wind and dredging collaterals.

However, it should be reminded that eels must be slaughtered and cooked now. There is a lot of histidine in eels, which will be converted into toxic substances after death, so the processed eels must be alive. Monopterus albus scalded with boiling water can wash away the mucous membrane outside, and the boiled soup can reduce the fishy smell.

Step 3 make a cake

Dragon Boat Festival is a grand festival for Korean people in Yanbian, Jilin Province. The most representative food on this day is sweet cake. Caking is to put mugwort and glutinous rice in a big wooden trough carved from a single wood and beat it with a long-handled wooden pestle. This kind of food has national characteristics and can add festive atmosphere.

Soak rice in water for a period of time, then take it out and steam it in a pot. Put the steamed rice in a wooden or stone trough and beat it repeatedly with a mallet. Generally, two people stand face to face at the edge of the trough and beat each other alternately, or one person beats, and one person turns the cake dough below and beats it evenly. Then, a sweet and delicious gluten cake was made.

4. Duck eggs

In addition to commemorating Qu Yuan, the Dragon Boat Festival is also to avoid the five poisons, because the legendary monster with five poisons will do harm to human beings during the Dragon Boat Festival. These five poisonous monsters are snakes, centipedes, spiders, geckos and scorpions. People use five kinds of red plates to symbolize the blood of these five poisons. Eating these dishes will scare away the five poisonous monsters, that is, eating five reds, namely roast duck, amaranth, duck eggs with red oil, lobster and realgar wine. It is said that.

Similar to Wu Hong, Jiangnan also has the custom of eating Huang Wu during the Dragon Boat Festival. Huang Wu refers to eel, yellow croaker, cucumber, salted duck eggs and realgar wine. Whether in Wu Hong or Huang Wu, there are duck eggs, so eating duck eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival has the reason to ward off evil spirits and dispel summer heat.

5. Ai Mo Mo

Many places also use rice flour or flour to ferment steamed mugwort buns during the Dragon Boat Festival. Folium Artemisiae Argyi contains a variety of volatile oils, which are fragrant, can repel insects and sterilize, and have inhibitory effects on a variety of bacteria and certain skin fungi. Therefore, in ancient times, mugwort was essential for the Dragon Boat Festival, whether it was eaten or used.

6. Tea eggs

In Nanchang, Jiangxi, tea eggs and salted eggs are boiled during the Dragon Boat Festival. Eggs include eggs, duck eggs and goose eggs. The eggshell is painted red, packed in colorful net bags and hung around the child's neck, which means wishing the child good luck and safety.

7. Garlic eggs

Every Dragon Boat Festival, housewives in rural areas of Henan, Zhejiang and other provinces get up early and make garlic and eggs for breakfast. In some places, put some mugwort leaves when cooking garlic and eggs. Eating garlic, eggs and fried buns for breakfast is said to avoid the "five poisons" and is good for health.

8. Fried pile

In Jinjiang, Fujian, every household has to eat "fried piles" during the Dragon Boat Festival. The so-called fried pile is made of flour, rice flour or sweet potato powder into a thick paste and fried into a large piece in an oil pan. According to legend, in ancient times, it was the rainy season in southern Fujian before the Dragon Boat Festival, with continuous rain. People say that God has pierced a hole to "mend the sky". The rain stopped after eating fried piles on the Dragon Boat Festival. People say that the sky has been mended. This diet custom comes from this.

9. Yellow rice wine

"Jia Qinglu" records: "It is called realgar wine to grind realgar and pollen typhae into powder and drink it with wine." In other words, realgar wine is blended with white wine and realgar. Why is such a simple drink so famous? This is probably related to the story of Bai Niangniang and Xu Xian. Bai Niangniang drinks realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival to show off her snake body. So people probably think that poisonous insects such as snakes, scorpions and centipedes can be cracked with realgar wine, and drinking realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival can exorcise evil spirits and detoxify.

But modern people find that realgar wine contains highly toxic arsenic, so they basically don't drink realgar wine. However, because realgar has antibacterial, detoxicating and dampness-removing effects, some people will use realgar as the main ingredient during the Dragon Boat Festival, adding spices such as angelica dahurica and lavender to make sachets, and some will also make realgar smoked strips, hoping to ward off evil spirits, insects and snakes.