What foods are there for the Dragon Boat Festival?

1. Zongzi: It is one of the traditional festival foods of the Chinese nation to wrap the leaves of Zongzi with glutinous rice and steam them. Zongzi appeared before the Spring and Autumn Period and was originally used to worship ancestors and gods. In the Jin dynasty, zongzi became the food of the Dragon Boat Festival.

2. Salted duck eggs: Reproduced eggs made from fresh duck eggs are rich in nutrition, containing fat, protein, multiple amino acids, calcium, phosphorus, iron, multiple trace elements and vitamins. Easy to be absorbed by human body, with moderate salty taste, suitable for all ages.

3. Qingtuan: a traditional snack in the south of the Yangtze River, blue, mixed with wormwood juice into glutinous rice flour, and then wrapped in bean paste or lotus seed paste, which is not sweet or greasy and has a faint but long grass fragrance.

4. Boiled eggs with wormwood leaves and garlic: it is a food made of eggs as the main raw material. Many places have the custom of cooking tea eggs and mugwort eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival. Some use chickens, ducks and geese eggs painted with bright colors and put them in net bags to hang around the children's necks, which can protect their safety and health.

5. Pile bombing: popular in most parts of the country. In Guangdong, it refers to a fist-sized fried glutinous rice dough with sesame seeds on its surface. It is made of glutinous rice flour with sugar, fried peanuts and sesame seeds. Fry in a pan.