Why do you eat salted duck eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival? The origin of eating salted duck eggs on Dragon Boat Festival.

There are two main reasons for eating salted duck eggs on the Drag

Why do you eat salted duck eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival? The origin of eating salted duck eggs on Dragon Boat Festival.

There are two main reasons for eating salted duck eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival: First, the Dragon Boat Festival is in midsummer, and the weather is hot and humid, which is easy to breed bacteria and cause "plague sores"; Duck eggs are heart-shaped, and the ancients thought that eating duck eggs could protect the spirit from infringement. Secondly, some areas have the custom of eating Huang Wu during the Dragon Boat Festival. Duck egg yolk in salted duck eggs is one of Huang Wu.

Why do you eat salted duck eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival?

Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhengyang Festival and Tianzhong Festival, is a traditional folk festival in China. Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of astronomical phenomena and evolved from the ancient Dragon Boat Festival. The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival mainly include picking dragon boats, picking herbs, hanging wormwood and calamus, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, washing herbal water, drinking water at noon, soaking in dragon boat water and eating zongzi. There is a custom of eating "Huang Wu" on the Dragon Boat Festival in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. Huang Wu refers to yellow croaker, cucumber, eel, duck egg yolk and realgar wine respectively.

There is also a saying that ancient Chinese medicine believes that salted duck eggs can not only nourish yin and clear lung, but also treat diseases such as heat insulation, cough, sore throat and diarrhea caused by high temperature in summer. These diseases are very common in May, so many people eat salted duck eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival to prevent diseases.