What traditional food do you eat during the Dragon Boat Festival?

What traditional food do you eat during the Dragon Boat Festival?

1, eat zongzi

Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate the poet Qu Yuan's habit of eating zongzi. Now there are many kinds of zongzi with different tastes, including fresh meat zongzi, egg yolk zongzi, candied jujube zongzi, original zongzi and so on. At this time, control the intake of zongzi according to the actual situation, and don't hurt your health because you are greedy for delicious food. At the same time, remember to heat zongzi before eating, which is safe and hygienic, and also reduces the digestive burden.

Step 2 eat eggs

You must cook eggs in the pot where zongzi is cooked, and if possible, cook some duck eggs and goose eggs. After eating sweet zongzi dipped in sugar, eat eggs dipped in salt. It is said that eating boiled eggs in zongzi pot at the end of May will not cause sores in summer; At noon, put the duck eggs and goose eggs cooked in the zongzi pot in the sun for a while before eating, so that you won't have a headache all summer.

3. Picking tea and making herbal tea

In some areas in the north, people like to pick tender leaves and steam wild vegetable leaves to make tea during the Dragon Boat Festival. In Chaozhou, Guangdong, people go to the suburbs of Shan Ye to collect herbs and cook herbal tea. This is also good for health.

Step 4 eat oil cakes

In addition to eating zongzi, you should also eat oil cakes during the Dragon Boat Festival. Oil cakes should be made of scalded oil noodles, wrapped with stuffing made of white sugar, yellow cinnamon, roses, walnuts and lard, and fried in an oil pan. The epidermis is loose, the stuffing is sweet and the appearance is beautiful.

Step 5 drink five glasses of wine

It is a folk custom to pick five drinks and brew five drinks on the fifth day of May. Acanthopanax senticosus is Acanthopanax senticosus skin, which smells bitter. Acanthopanax senticosus skin has a strange fragrance, which can nourish liver and kidney and strengthen bones and muscles. People believe that drinking five glasses of wine can ward off evil spirits. Acanthopanax senticosus is mainly used to treat hernia, abdominal pain, male impotence, enuresis, female low back pain and pain in both feet. Located in a humid area, it is especially suitable for drinking Wu Jia wine during the Dragon Boat Festival.

6, sugar jujube glutinous rice

On the Dragon Boat Festival, Naxi people want to eat glutinous rice with sugar dates. Glutinous rice can warm spleen and lungs and tonify deficiency and cold. And glutinous rice will contain glutinous rice, glutinous rice contains a lot of vitamins, a lot of phosphorus, calcium, iron, protein and fat, which will increase the amount of blood in human blood. Therefore, it is necessary to pay special attention to the fact that diabetics should not eat.

7. Eat minced meat noodles

Shaanxi people must eat whistle noodles during the Dragon Boat Festival. Noodles with minced meat are Shaanxi snacks with dozens of varieties, among which Qishan noodles with minced meat are the most famous. The characteristics of minced meat noodles are that the noodles are slender, uniform in thickness, fresh and fragrant in minced meat, and the noodle soup is shiny and ruddy. Qishan noodles with minced meat have a strong local flavor. It is thin, tough, light, soft, sour, spicy and fragrant, and it tastes flexible and smooth.

8, eat dough twists

Crispy twist is also a must-have food for the Dragon Boat Festival. The Dragon Boat Festival itself is to commemorate our great patriotic poet Qu Yuan. On this day, we can't say something unlucky, so we eat sesame candy (twist) to stick our mouths together and wish our life sweet and beautiful.

9. Eat "five reds" and "Huang Wu"

The traditional Dragon Boat Festival cuisine in Nanjing is "Huang Wu", namely eel, yellow croaker, duck egg yolk, cucumber and realgar wine. With the historical changes and social development, the content of "Huang Wu" has gradually evolved into the present "five reds", namely "roast duck, amaranth, duck eggs, lobster and realgar wine". It is said that eating "Five Red" and "Huang Wu" on the Dragon Boat Festival can ward off evil spirits and escape the heat all summer.

10, drink calamus wine

Drinking calamus wine is a traditional custom of Dragon Boat Festival. Chen Zeng, a scholar in the Southern Song Dynasty, wrote a poem that "Acorus calamus overflows at the beginning of May every year". Acorus calamus wine is a kind of medicinal liquor made from Acorus calamus and white wine or yellow wine. Drinking calamus wine on Dragon Boat Festival is to ward off evil spirits and remove poison. Long-term drinking can dispel diseases and strengthen the body.