Dragon Boat Festival eat what traditional food

Duanwu eat zongzi, salted duck eggs, tea eggs, hemp ball, mung bean cake, xionghuang wine, sugar dates glutinous rice, eel, yellow fish, cucumber, playing cake, fried piles and so on. The Dragon Boat Festival is one of the four traditional festivals in China, and its representative food is zongzi, which, according to folklore, is eaten in honor of the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan. Qu Yuan was in exile during the period, the Qin army broke through the capital of Chu, Qu Yuan saw his motherland was invaded, heart like a knife, in the fifth of May, in the writing of the last work of "Huai Sha", after holding the stone threw Miluo River death.

It is reported that after Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu were y grieved and flocked to the Miluo River to pay homage to him. Fishermen rowed up their boats and went back and forth on the river to salvage his real body. One fisherman took out rice balls, eggs and other food prepared for Qu Yuan and threw them into the river, saying that the fish, dragons, shrimps and crabs would not bite the official's body if they had enough to eat, and the people followed suit.

An old physician brought an altar of yellow wine and poured it into the river, saying that he wanted to stun the dragon and water beasts so as not to hurt the official. Later, for fear that the rice ball for the dragon eat, people came up with neem leaves wrapped rice, wrapped in colorful silk, developed into dumplings.

And the Dragon Boat Festival to eat salted duck eggs is a major custom, because after the Dragon Boat Festival heralds the arrival of the hot summer, plant and animal life activities into the stage of exuberance, coupled with the climate and humidity, pests and bacteria are active, prone to cause many diseases. Eating salted duck eggs at the Dragon Boat Festival can get rid of the poison, and is conducive to maintaining good health.