On March 3rd, mangcai boiled eggs. On the third day of the third lunar month, there is a folk custom of boiling eggs with mang vegetables, saying that eating eggs cooked with mang vegetables will not hurt your waist and legs or your head for a year.

There is a beautiful legend about "eating vegetables and boiling eggs on March 3" According to legend, in Chu, people have headaches because of wind and rain. On the third day of March, Shennong passed Yunmengze (now Xiaogan, Hubei) and saw that the villagers had a terrible headache. He found wild eggs and local vegetables and cooked them to satisfy people's hunger. When people ate it, their heads suddenly stopped hurting. The custom of "on March 3, eating local dishes and boiling eggs will keep you from having a headache for a year" has also continued to this day.

There is also a legend: during the Three Kingdoms period, the famous doctor Hua Tuo went to the city to collect medicine. One day, when he was sheltering from the rain in an old man's home, he saw the old man suffering from headache and dizziness, which was painful and embarrassing. Hua tuo immediately diagnosed the old man, and collected a handful of rice dishes in the old man's garden and asked the old man to take juice and boil eggs. The old man obeyed, took three eggs and recovered.

The story spread, and people boiled eggs with rice dishes one after another, and the craze spread all over urban and rural areas. It was the third day of March that Huata treated the elderly. Therefore, on the third day of March, boiled eggs with rice dishes gradually spread and formed a custom. There is also a saying that the third day of the third lunar month is the day when Han people greet their ancestors' souls and eat eggs to commemorate their ancestors.

And hope to touch some aura and so on. The practice is very particular. The first is to choose Dongguan cuisine. Ground vegetables are known as "licorice in vegetables", and eggs are rich in protein and other nutrients. Boiling eggs with ground vegetables can make the eggs taste more delicious.

Because the homonym of mangcai is "gathering wealth", according to folklore, on the third day of March, at the time of ancestor worship, with the help of ancestors' gods and wealth, people will wash fresh mangcai, bundle it into a small bundle, add eggs, red dates, balloons, and then cook it in a big pot with two or three slices of ginger.

The whole family eats a bowl, which can not only make a fortune, but also prevent headaches and dizziness. Over time, it has formed a unique folk diet custom. It is said that rheumatism can be removed, fire can be cleared away, waist and legs are not painful, and spring cancer can be prevented.