The Origin of Egg Eating on March 3rd

The third day of the third month of the lunar calendar is the day when the Han Chinese welcome the souls of their ancestors, and they want to mourn their ancestors by eating eggs and hope to dip into the aura, so there is a March 3Eating Eggs on March 3 custom.

The third day of the third month of the lunar calendar is a traditional festival of many ethnic groups in China, among which the Han, Zhuang, Miao and Yao are typical. In ancient times, young men and women of the Zhuang ethnic group gathered on the streets to sing songs and converged on the riverside to drink and feast. In the Zhuang legend, March 3 is the birth date of the ancestor of the Zhuang people, Bluto. Han Chinese for the Shangsi Festival, there are March 3 to worship ancestors.

Chinese people since ancient times, there are Yanhuang Ziqi. And according to legend, the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar is the birth of the Yellow Emperor, China since ancient times, "February 2, the dragon raised its head; March 3, the birth of Xuanyuan" said.

So every year on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, is the Han people to meet the souls of their ancestors, so on this day the Han people will carry out ancestor worship activities, and on the third day of the third month, the chestnut boiled eggs from the chestnut is due to the resonance of chestnuts is "gathering wealth".

On the third day of the third month, when sacrificing to the ancestors, with the help of the spirits of the ancestors and wealth, people will wash and tie the fresh chestnuts into a small bundle, put in the eggs, jujubes, windballs, and with two or three slices of ginger, cook a pot, and the whole family will eat a bowl.

Shepherd's purse boiled egg practice steps:

Material preparation: 100g of shepherd's purse, 8 eggs, 20g of ginger, 10 red dates, sugar and so on.

1, fresh eggs with water to clean the shell, and then cold water in a pot, large fire boil, turn to medium heat and cook for 7 minutes. Turn off the heat and fish out, and when cool, knock a crack out with chopsticks.

2, capers remove the old leaves, wash, wash and cut ginger into slices. In the bottom of the pot put some capers, and then put the egg and ginger, the top of a layer of capers, and then put the right amount of water to fire and cook for about 10 minutes.

3, the last will be red dates, appropriate amount of sugar into the pot, cook for 5 minutes. Need to pay attention to one point, the chestnut boiled egg is not to add salt.