What delicious food and cakes are there on Dragon Boat Festival?

Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival in China. During the Dragon Boat Festival, most areas eat zongzi. Some areas will prepare other special foods to share with their families during this festival. Everyone wants to know what food is available during this festival. So what kind of food and cakes are there on the Dragon Boat Festival? Let's have a look.

During the Dragon Boat Festival, people in most areas will eat zongzi, realgar wine, rice cakes, Huang Wu and tea eggs. At present, there are many shapes of zongzi in different regions of China. Zongzi in the market generally has regular triangle, regular quadrangle, pointed triangle, square and strip. Due to the differences between north and south, some areas will eat sweet zongzi, while others will eat salty zongzi. In Yanbian area of Jilin Province, local people also eat rice cakes during the Dragon Boat Festival, mainly made of mugwort and glutinous rice with long-handled mallets. This kind of rice cake has certain national characteristics and can make the holiday atmosphere better. In Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, people will also eat Huang Wu during the Dragon Boat Festival. This Huang Wu refers to yellow croaker, cucumber, eel, duck egg yolk and realgar wine, and tea eggs are also eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival in southwest cities.

Due to the different holiday customs in different regions. Therefore, what kind of cake to eat on Dragon Boat Festival is different. You can know what cakes to eat on Dragon Boat Festival according to your region.