What are the Dragon Boat Festival food customs

1, eat zongzi

The zongzi ancient called "corn", legend has it that the sacrifice of Qu Yuan and the invention of the river, the real written records of zongzi in the Jin Zhou's "Land and Customs"; and the order of the zongzi, the oldest history of zongzi is the Xi'an honey cool zongzi, in the Tang Wei Juyuan "recipes".

Overall, people around the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival is very similar, and Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi, throughout the ages, all over China are the same. Today's dumplings are even more diverse and brilliant. Today's zongzi everywhere, generally with Ruo shell package glutinous rice, but contains the color of the flowers according to the local specialties and customs. The zongzi will be heated before eating, both safe and hygienic, but also to reduce the burden of digestion.

2, eat "five yellow"

Jiangsu and Zhejiang have the Dragon Boat Festival to eat "five yellow" custom. Five yellow refers to the cucumber, eel, yellow fish, duck egg yolk, xionghuang wine. In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival in northern Zhejiang has the custom of eating tofu.

3, eat tea eggs

Nanchang area in Jiangxi, the Dragon Boat Festival to cook tea eggs and salt water eggs to eat. There are eggs, duck eggs and goose eggs. Eggshells painted red, with colorful mesh bags, hanging in the neck of small children, meant to bless the child in good luck, peace and prosperity.

4, drink xionghuang wine

Duanwu drink xionghuang wine custom, once upon a time in the Yangtze River Basin region is extremely prevalent. Xionghuang is a mineral, commonly known as "cockleshell", its main component is arsenic sulfide, and contains mercury, toxic.

Many people in the Dragon Boat Festival drink andrographis, but because the main component of andrographis is arsenic disulfide, heat can be decomposed into a very toxic arsenic, and therefore do not recommend internal use; generally only in white wine or home-brewed yellow wine to add trace amounts of andrographis and become, no pure drink.

Generally andrographis has the efficacy of antiseptic, anthelmintic and antitoxic, and is also used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat skin diseases. Not to the drinking age of small children, adults will give their forehead, ears and nose, hands and feet heart and other places coated with andrographis, intended to disinfect and prevent disease, insects and insects do not bite.

5, eat oil cake

Duanwu Festival day in addition to eating zongzi, but also eat oil cake. Oil cake to use and good hot oil noodles, wrapped in sugar, yellow cinnamon, rose, walnuts, lard made of filling, under the frying pan. The skin is fluffy, the filling is sweet, and the appearance is beautiful.

6, eat garlic eggs

Henan, Zhejiang and other provinces in the countryside every Dragon Boat Festival day, the housewife got up especially early, will be prepared in advance of the garlic and eggs cooked together for the family breakfast. Some places, but also in the cooking garlic and eggs put a few pieces of mugwort leaves. Breakfast food garlic, eggs, branded oil buns, this diet is said to avoid the "five poisons", good health.