Why do you want to boil eggs on March 3 and eat eggs on March 3?

Why do you want to eat eggs on March 3?

folklore

During the Three Kingdoms period, the famous doctor Hua Tuo came to Miancheng to collect herbs and was caught in heavy rain. When he was sheltering from the rain in an old man's house, he saw that the old man had a headache and dizziness. Hua tuo immediately diagnosed the old man, picked a handful of vegetables in the old man's garden, and asked the old man to take juice and boil eggs to eat. The old man obeyed, ate three eggs and recovered. The story spread like wildfire, and the craze spread all over urban and rural areas, and that day happened to be March 3, and it became a custom to cook eggs in local dishes.

Ancient prose records

In the Qing Dynasty, Ye's "Hankou Zhi Zhu Ci" said: "Three or three orders are more important than the kitchen, and the taste is new. Rice meals and eggs are ready, full and fragrant. " The food in the word is shepherd's purse Shepherd's purse, also known as wild vegetable, is a kind of wild vegetable that grows in the corner of the field. Although it is a wild vegetable, it is delicious and nutritious. Eating shepherd's purse in spring is also a long-standing traditional custom in China.