Dragon Boat Festival what style of food customs?

In the Dragon Boat Festival, in addition to eating zongzi, folk have eaten "five yellow" custom. Five yellow refers to cucumber, eel, yellow fish, yellow wine, salted egg. Chinese medicine believes that the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, is the most vigorous time of the year, at noon is the most vigorous time of the day, can be used in the power of the five yolks, spleen fitness, to enhance their energy.

Eel in the Dragon Boat Festival, round fat and plump, tender meat, not only taste especially good, but also has a tonic function. Therefore, the folk have "Dragon Boat Festival eel race ginseng" said.

In the Dragon Boat Festival, folk have the custom of eating eggs. In Jiangxi Nanchang area, the Dragon Boat Festival in addition to eating zongzi, but also eat tea eggs and salt water eggs. Eggs are divided into eggs, duck eggs, goose eggs and so on. Eggshells painted red, with colorful net bag, hanging in the neck of small children, meaning the blessing of the child "good luck, safe and sound".

In Henan, Zhejiang and other places in the countryside, every Dragon Boat Festival this day, the housewife are up especially early, will be prepared in advance of the garlic and eggs cooked together for the family breakfast. Some places, but also in the cooking garlic and eggs put a few pieces of mugwort leaves, breakfast food garlic, eggs, branded oil buns. This way of eating is said to be able to avoid five poisons, good health.

In Ninghai, Yuyao and Ningbo city, many families still retain the food custom of eating "five yellow and six white".

The five yellows are cucumber, yellow fish, yellow eel, yellow clams and yellow plums. Slightly different places, the water village to eat eel, the seaside to eat yellow clams, mountainous areas to eat yellow plums, some with salted duck eggs, yellow soybean, loquat and other alternatives, depending on the local conditions, anyway, is five kinds of yellow character food can be.

Six white, then refers to tofu, wild rice, cabbage, white fish, white chicken, white cut meat, or white wine, white garlic. Folk believe that eating five yellow and six white can ward off evil spirits and detoxify the body.

Five yellow and six white is "listed head" dishes, fruits and vegetables, the main dish is yellowtail, Ningbo folk proverb has "May 5, buy a yellowtail over Dragon Boat Festival" said. In the minds of Ningbo people, the taste of thousands of fish can not compare to the golden yellowtail, it is the prince of the fish.

Duanwu yellowtail head fat, whether stewed, braised, fried, made soup, the flavor is delicious. Salted finely chopped large soup yellowtail, moss and vegetables drag yellowtail, sweet and sour yellowtail, are Ningbo people's home cooking.

Like moss vegetable fried yellowtail, with flour mixed into a paste, the yellowtail meat strips dipped in batter, into the frying pan a fried. The emerald green moss cabbage, yellow fried yellow fish, crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, rich in flavor, taste great.

From the back of the yellowtail into the knife, cut into fan-shaped, sprinkled with salt and dried in the sun became the yellowtail replica bags. The old Ningbo song "December Fish Name" has the phrase "April yellow fish sunshine white replica bags," yellow fish replica bags for relatives in Shanghai, is a delicious meal.

Ningbo's eels are produced at the edge of the field in front of the house, easy to catch. Eel round fat flavorful, tender meat, accompanied by leek buds, fried into eel paste spicy, popping eel, etc., yellow color, bright, fragrant and refreshing, for the people of Ningbo Dragon Boat Festival banquet when the necessary.

Cucumber is also a "seasonal head" fruits and vegetables, and shrimp with fried, can also be cold alone, fresh and crisp. Chewing loquat after a meal is not only seasonal, but also helps with digestion.

From Feng Menglong's "Song of the Mountain," it is known that in the Ming Dynasty, the Dragon Boat Festival in northern Zhejiang has the custom of giving small children to eat simmered eggs.

People lit dry broad bean shells, mosquito grass and toadstools on fire to make smoke in the fire pot. When the fire pot smoke fire, people will take out the pre-prepared green shell duck eggs, knocked out a small hole in one end of the egg shell, to the hole into a small spider, the hole will be closed and put into the pot simmering. After the duck egg is simmered, the spider is taken out of the egg and given to the children to eat. It is said that children eat this simmering eggs, can drive away poison, the summer will not have prickly heat. In the Dragon Boat Festival, folk have the custom of drinking bushel wine, xionghuang wine Zhuzha wine, or wine sprinkled spray. Calamus is a perennial herb, born at the water's edge, with light red rhizomes underground, leaves shaped like swords, and fleshy spikes. The rhizome can be used as a spice or medicine. Pu wine has an aromatic flavor and a refreshing taste, and later on, andrographis and vermilion were added to the wine. Xionghuang wine is the wine of the Dragon Boat Festival. Writer Wang Zengqi mentioned Xionghuang wine in "Duck Eggs at the Dragon Boat Festival", which says:

Drinking Xionghuang wine. With the wine and xionghuang drawn on the child's forehead, the word "Wang" is compared to a tiger to protect the evil spirits. This is a lot of places have. In the old days, almost every family brewing andrographis, but mostly for men to drink, some will drink women also drink some, children can not drink, adults will use their fingers dipped in wine in the child's face, ears, nose, palms and feet smear some. So far, many places in China have the habit of drinking Xionghuang wine.

In fact, the traditional custom of drinking Xionghuang wine is a kind of bad customs. Andrographis main ingredient is arsenic sulfide, arsenic is the main raw material for refining arsenic, drink andrographis wine is equal to eat arsenic. Andrographis also contains strong carcinogenic substances, even if taken in small doses, will cause damage to the liver. Therefore, taking andrographis is very easy to be poisoned, light nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and other symptoms, and even central nervous system paralysis, blurred consciousness, coma, etc., the heavier will cause death.

In ancient times, the people in order to drive away the evil, detoxification, will be used in Chinese medicine for real evidence of Xionghuang tapping therapy, misunderstood as Xionghuang has the role of driving away the evil, but also the Chinese medicine on the solution to the sores and poisons misunderstood as Xionghuang can be lifted or discharged from the body of the poisons.

See, people not only can not make their own Xionghuang wine, is containing Xionghuang medicine, should also be used under the guidance of a doctor.

But, such as in the andrographis added to mugwort, smoked grass and other raw materials made of incense, for women and children to wear, can play a role in killing germs, eliminating sweat and odor, refreshing the role of the mind. At the same time, andrographis, mugwort, smoky grass can emit a strange flavor, can make the snakes and insects smell far away.

In Binyang, Guangxi, packets of medicinal herbs are sold during the Dragon Boat Festival, including Xionghuang, Zhu Lei, cypress, peach kernel, bushels, and mugwort leaves. People dipped into wine, then dipped in calamus ai pong sprinkled wall corners, doors, windows, under the bed, etc., and then wine coated children's ears, nose, navel, in order to drive away poisonous insects, and to seek peace for the children.

On the Dragon Boat Festival drink Zhu Sha wine custom, the Ming Dynasty Feng Yingjing "Moonlighting Guangyi" recorded: "the first five with Zhu Sha wine, to ward off evil spirits and detoxification, with the wine stained forehead chest, hands and feet, heart, no will be vipers, snakes of the disease. And to sprinkle the walls, doors and windows to avoid poisonous insects." This custom is widely spread.

In Guangzhou, the Dragon Boat Festival has the custom of eating dragon boat rice. It is said that if you eat dragon boat rice, you will be "dragon spirit and tiger, smooth wind and water". Therefore, every year at the Dragon Boat Festival, the villagers of some villages in Guangzhou will gather together to eat dragon boat rice.

The main dish in the elaborate dragon boat rice is called "Dragon Boat Vegetables", which consists of chili peppers, soybeans, bean curd, celery, cabbage and shredded pork. As the water splashes against the body when stepping into a dragon boat, the dragon boat dish can repel moisture. Other dishes include roast pork, which means "red skin and red strength," as well as chicken, goose and vermicelli, **** there are 10 dishes.

When it comes to vermicelli, starting on the first day of May, before every dragon boat dinner, village elders will give some vermicelli, shrimp and some vegetables to children to symbolize their growth.

In addition, the dragon boat dishes include kudzu buckled pork, winter melon vermicelli and shrimp, duck kidney fried with sour ginger, eggplant steamed home fish, oyster sauce fried vegetable heart, steamed chicken with mushroom and red dates, and cabbage, barley, winter melon and scented duck soup, all of which are delicious.