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What do you eat on Dragon Boat Festival?
1. There is a custom of eating "five reds" and "Huang Wu" during the Dragon Boat Festival. The so-called "five red vegetables" usually refer to amaranth, eggplant, carrot, tomato and shrimp. The so-called "yellow cabbage" usually refers to cucumber, eel, yellow croaker, duck egg yolk and realgar wine. The second is to eat zongzi.

The Dragon Boat Festival is also called Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Zhengyang Festival. According to legend, Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State in the Warring States Period, committed suicide by jumping into the Miluo River on May 5th. In memory of Qu Yuan, people threw zongzi into the river and designated this day as Dragon Boat Festival.