Why do you want to eat fried dough sticks on Dragon Boat Festival?

There are historical allusions to eating fried dough sticks during the Dragon Boat Festival.

It is said that during the Southern Song Dynasty, during the Dragon Boat Festival, a terrible news came from the Central Plains. Qin stew killed Yue Fei, a national hero, and the people in the north and south of the motherland hated Qin stew. In a restaurant in Huanghua Street, Zezhou City, there are two firefighters, Li Er and Wang Si, who fry fried dough sticks every day.

On that day, the two of them put the fried dough sticks noodles into A Qin stew and a wife. Everyone pressed the two small noodles together, fried them in a frying pan and killed them. This is the story of fried stew in folklore. Now people only know that it is called fried dough sticks or hemp leaves, and Zezhou in Jincheng, Shangdang area is called spicy. I have asked many masters what the word "spicy" is;

They don't know. After years of research, they discovered the mystery. Hemp is to put two pieces of flour together and fry them in a frying pan. This kind of food is very spicy, so it is called spicy.

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Traditional customs of Dragon Boat Festival:

1, roast dragon boat

Picking dragon boats is a traditional custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. According to legend, people who originated in the ancient State of Chu were reluctant to part with the death of the sage Qu Yuan, and many people rowed boats to save people. They rushed to catch up with each other, but when they got to Dongting Lake, there was no trace of them. Since then, people have been rowing dragon boats on May 5th every year to commemorate it. Rowing a dragon boat to disperse the fish in the river so as not to eat Qu Yuan's body.

Step 2 eat zongzi

Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is also an important custom. Zongzi is also called "tube Zongzi" and "corner millet". Every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, every household will soak glutinous rice, wash zongzi leaves and wrap zongzi. Zongzi in different places have different tastes and fillings. Zongzi was originally used to worship ancestors and gods, but the day Quyuan threw himself into the river was also the fifth day of May. People couldn't bear to eat Qu Yuan's body with the fish and shrimp in the river, so they threw zongzi into the fish and shrimp in the river.

Step 3 hang wormwood and calamus

On the Dragon Boat Festival, people regard inserting wormwood and calamus as one of the important contents. Every family sweeps the courtyard, inserts calamus and moxa sticks in their eyebrows and hangs them in the hall. Acorus calamus is a perennial aquatic herb, and its long and narrow leaves also contain volatile aromatic oil, which is a medicine for refreshing, strengthening bones, eliminating stagnation, killing insects and sterilizing.

Acorus calamus leaves are sword-shaped, which can ward off evil spirits when inserted at the door. Therefore, alchemists call it "water sword", and later it is extended to "common sword", which can cut thousands of evil spirits. Wormwood represents a hundred blessings and is a kind of herbal medicine that can cure diseases. Inserting it at the door can make you healthy.

4. Wear sachets

Wearing sachets is one of the traditional customs of Dragon Boat Festival. The sachet is usually filled with some Chinese herbal medicines with fragrance and resuscitation, which have the effects of fragrance, insect repellent, plague prevention and disease prevention. Duanyang tied his arm with four-color thread and wore a sachet, which was exquisite and exquisite. The sachet is also called sachet, sachet and purse, usually filled with spices and wrapped with five-color silk thread.

Or cotton is wrapped in colored satin or cloth, mixed with powders of Rhizoma Chuanxiong, Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, Rhizoma Sparganii, Herba Hedyotidis Diffusae, Flos Caryophylli, Asari, Gan Song, Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, Glycyrrhrizae Radix and realgar powder, embroidered with colored silk thread, with red, green, cyan, blue and purple silk threads hanging from the bottom, and worn on the chest, which is fragrant.

5. Casting the spike

In Lun Heng, written by Wang Chong in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the etiquette and custom of "casting the year of Yang" during the Dragon Boat Festival were recorded: "The year of Yang takes fire from the sky, and at noon in May, five stones are melted and cast into vessels, which makes them glow with excitement. When they rise to the sun, fire will come, which is also the way to get real fire. "

The ancients thought that there were three fires at noon, when the sun was shining. At this time, it is the best time to melt gold and cast mirrors, and the cast bronze mirrors have incredible power.