Dragon Boat Festival food from the ancient poems see

Duanwu Festival to eat what traditional food

1, dumplings

Dragon Boat Festival food dumplings custom from a long time ago, and prevailing. To this day, the Dragon Boat Festival, almost every family to eat zongzi, zongzi types and practices are different, the taste of salty and sweet points. Southern zongzi to Suzhou, Ningbo, Jiaxing and other places most prestigious, filling more to bean paste, ham, salted meat, jujube mud-based; northern zongzi to small date zongzong as a representative of the common fillings such as jujubes, preserved fruit.

2, drink xionghuang wine

Folk probably think that snakes, scorpions, centipedes and other venomous insects can be cracked by xionghuang wine, Dragon Boat Festival drink xionghuang wine can drive away evil spirits and detoxification. However, modern people found that xionghuang wine contains highly toxic substances arsenic, so basically do not drink xionghuang wine. However, because of the andrographis has antibacterial, detoxification, dampness effect, so to the Dragon Boat Festival this day, there will be people will be based on the andrographis, adding Angelica dahurica, lavender and other spices made into incense bags, there are made into the andrographis smoked strips, hope to be used to ward off the evil spirits and to prevent insects and snakes from harming.

3, tea eggs

Nanchang, Jiangxi area of the Dragon Boat Festival has boiled tea eggs and salt water eggs to eat the custom. Local people will also be eggs, duck eggs, goose eggs dyed red, with colorful mesh bags, to children hanging around the neck, hoping that the child is safe and sound, good luck.

4, garlic eggs

Henan, Zhejiang and other rural areas in the Dragon Boat Festival this day to eat garlic eggs. Is the garlic and eggs together to eat boiled breakfast to eat, some places to cook garlic eggs will also put a few pieces of mugwort leaves. Breakfast eat garlic, eggs and branded oil buns, it is said that you can avoid the "five poisons".

5, oil cake

Dragon Boat Festival to eat oil cake is a traditional custom in Lantian County, Shaanxi. The oil cake is made of hot oil and good noodles, wrapped with sugar, cinnamon, walnuts, roses and lard made of filling, and then deep-fried in a frying pan. The fried oil cake is golden, crispy on the outside and sweet on the inside, which makes people salivate when they bite into it.

6, the cake

Yanbian, Jilin Province, the Korean people over the Dragon Boat Festival is the most representative of the food cake. The cake is made by putting wormwood and glutinous rice in a stone mortar or wooden trough and beating the rice cake with a long-handled wooden mallet, which is a very ethnic food.

7, pan-fried pile

Pan-fried pile, also known as hemp ball, hemp ball, etc., is made of flour, glutinous rice flour or sweet potato flour and sugar into a paste, under the frying pan deep-fried and made of very chewy, especially sweet.

Fujian Jinjiang region of the Dragon Boat Festival every family to eat fried pile. Legend has it that in ancient times, around the Dragon Boat Festival in southern Fujian, it was the rainy season, and the folk said that the God of Heaven had broken a hole and had to mend the sky. The Dragon Boat Festival ate fried piles after the rain will stop, people say the sky to make up for the good, this custom has been passed down to the present day.

8, Ai bun

Dragon Boat Festival food Ai can be sterilized to drive away insects, a variety of bacteria and skin fungi have an inhibitory effect. So many places also use rice flour or flour fermented with mugwort steamed buns to eat, taste sweet, soft and sticky.

9, noodle fan

Dragon Boat Festival eat noodle fan popular in Gansu, Ningxia area. The local people make the hairy noodles into a fan shape, there are many layers, each layer sprinkled with pepper, the surface pinched into a variety of shapes and patterns, and then dyed in color, extremely good-looking.

10, pancakes

Minnesota, Wenzhou part of the Dragon Boat Festival, there is the custom of eating pancakes. Pancakes are made of flour into a paste, in a large and flat iron pot on the spread into a shape like a full moon, as thin as Cindy's translucent cake, rolled on the fried bean sprouts, shredded lean pork, mushrooms and other fillings, made into a tube to eat, similar to the practice of spring rolls.

11, mung bean cake

Wuhan, Nanjing, Wuhu, Xi'an and other places on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival will eat mung bean cake. "Cake" and "high" homophonic, meaning flying, with the Dragon Boat Festival dumplings to eat together with the meaning of "high school", for the preparation of reference for the students is a good wish.

12, five yellow

"Dragon Boat Festival must be eaten when the five yellow, loquat Shishou got a new taste. Cucumber is good with yellow plums, and even more fragrant Xionghuang burnt wine." The Dragon Boat Festival around Jiangsu and Zhejiang have eaten "five yellow" custom. Jiangnan tradition of the Dragon Boat Festival five yellow refers to eel, yellow fish, cucumber, salted egg yolk and xionghuang wine (xionghuang is poisonous, now replaced by yellow wine).

13, five red

It is said that the Dragon Boat Festival to eat five red can drive the five poisons, the whole summer can ward off evil spirits. However, the content of the five red is not the same everywhere, these foods *** with the same characteristics is cooked red. Five red general to red amaranth, lobster, red oil duck eggs, roast duck, eel.

In fact, whether it is five red or five yellow, mainly to dispel summer heat and ward off evil spirits.

14, five white

With Suzhou as the representative of the Jiangnan water towns, the Dragon Boat Festival is characterized by eating five white, five white generally only wild rice, white chicken, white tofu, white cut meat, white garlic.

See the Dragon Boat Festival food from ancient poems

"Festival Gate - Duan Yang"

Qing:Li Jingshan

Cherry mulberry and calamus, and buy a pot of Xionghuang wine.

The yellow paper is hanging high outside the door, but I suspect that the accountant is afraid of the talisman.

When we celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, we bought cherries, peaches, mulberries and calamus, and we also bought a pot of Xionghuang wine, and we put yellow paper outside the door, although we put so many things to ward off the evil spirits, but we still worry that the debtors will come to our door, this poem shows the real life of the poor people in the Dragon Boat Festival, with a little bit of bitterness in the humor.

The poem Yimao Chongwu Poem

Song:Lu You

Chongwu mountain village is good, pomegranate flowers have suddenly flourished.

The dumplings are wrapped in two buns, and the moxa buns are tied around the crown.

The old custom is to store medicine, and the body also points to Dan.

I have finished my work at the end of the day, and I am smiling at the cup and saucer.

The poem "Yimao Chongwu" describes the habits of the Southern Song Dynasty on the Dragon Boat Festival. The author ate two corners of the dumplings, high crown inserted ai branches. Still commonplace, and busy storing medicine, matching prescription, in order to be safe and disease-free this year. At night, he was physically and mentally happy to drink wine. From this, we can see the Jiangnan Dragon Boat Festival customs, both to commemorate the meaning of Qu Yuan, but also the content of health care.