What food do you eat during the Dragon Boat Festival in the north?

Eating zongzi in the north during Dragon Boat Festival.

Zongzi, or "Zongzi Zan", is commonly known as Zongzi. Its main materials are glutinous rice and stuffing, and it is wrapped with Indocalamus leaves (or Hiragi leaves) into various shapes, such as sharp corners and quadrangles. Zongzi has a long history, originally as a tribute to ancestors and gods. After being introduced to the north, it is made of millet (produced in the north), which is called "corn millet".

Because of the different eating habits in different places, zongzi has formed a north-south flavor; In terms of taste, zongzi can be divided into salty zongzi and sweet zongzi. The custom of eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival has been popular in China for thousands of years, and it has become one of the most influential and extensive folk food customs of the Chinese nation, and spread to North Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian countries.

Dragon Boat Festival cuisine:

1 Zongzi

Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is a common traditional custom in northern and southern China. In the north, we mainly eat triangular sweet zongzi, with candied dates, dates and red bean paste as stuffing. The most representative is the honey zongzi in Beijing. The south mainly eats salty zongzi, and the stuffing is mainly salty pork belly. In the south, we mainly eat four-corner zongzi, pointed triangular zongzi and square zongzi.

2. Huang Wu

There is a saying that there are five yellow moons in Jiangnan. In Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, people eat Huang Wu on the Dragon Boat Festival. Huang Wu refers to yellow rice wine, yellow croaker, cucumber, eel and duck egg yolk. But "Huang Wu" does not refer to these categories. Some places don't eat salted duck eggs, but eat soybeans.

3. realgar wine

In the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River, drinking realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival is particularly popular. Realgar can be used to make antidote and insecticide. So the ancients thought realgar could restrain snakes, scorpions and other insects, so they ground it into powder and soaked it in white wine or yellow wine. However, people now use yellow wine instead of realgar wine.

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