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What traditional food do you want to eat on March 3rd?

1, five-color glutinous rice

Five-color glutinous rice is a traditional snack of Buyi, Zhuang and other ethnic groups. Glutinous rice is named after its five colors: black, red, yellow, white and purple. Every year on the third day of the third lunar month or in Tomb-Sweeping Day and Guangxi, people of all ethnic groups generally make five-color glutinous rice. Zhuang people like colored glutinous rice very much and regard it as a symbol of good luck and good harvest.

2. Paederia cristata

Eating chicken manure rattan on the third day of the third lunar month is a traditional custom of local people in Beihai, Guangxi. Leaves and rice are mixed and ground into powder, and then made into shredded chicken and rattan noodles. The soup made of this noodle is fragrant and sweet, and it is a special snack that locals like. According to legend, the third day of the third lunar month is the birthday of Xuanyuan Huangdi, the ancestor of Chinese culture, and the people of Beihai commemorate this great man.

3, shepherd's purse boiled eggs

The folk proverb says, "On March 3rd, shepherd's purse is a panacea." "On March 3rd, shepherd's purse boiled eggs." Spring is the season to eat shepherd's purse. Eating shepherd's purse in spring is also a long-standing traditional custom in China. On this day, Han people have the custom of eating local vegetables and boiling eggs.

4. Artemisia argyi

Every "March 3rd", when people buy five-color glutinous rice, they will find that wormwood cakes are also very popular. Artemisia argyi Baba, also known as Artemisia argyi Baba, is a traditional snack of Han nationality and is generally eaten in Tomb-Sweeping Day and the Cold Food Festival. As the third day of the third lunar month approaches Tomb-Sweeping Day, Artemisia argyi Bazin has become a must-eat food on the third day of the third lunar month.

5, hair cake

Hair cakes come in three colors: burnt yellow, muddy yellow and snowy white. Brown hair cake is the most traditional and authentic method, and the latter two are new varieties that have evolved with the development of the market and the differentiation of customers' tastes. On March 3rd, many Nanning people will prepare some cakes to worship their ancestors. Hair cake tastes soft and sweet, suitable for all ages.