What to eat on Dragon Boat Festival?
1 Zongzi
The custom of eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival has a long history and is popular for a while. Nowadays, almost every household eats zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival, and the types and practices of zongzi are different, and the taste is different. South Zongzi is most famous in Suzhou, Ningbo and Jiaxing, and its fillings are mostly bean paste, ham, bacon and jujube paste. The northern zongzi is represented by jujube zongzi, and the common fillings are jujube and preserved fruit.
2. Eel
Around the Dragon Boat Festival, eel meat is the most tender and nutritious time of the year, which not only tastes good, but also has the best nourishing effect. Therefore, there is a saying among the people that eels participate in the Dragon Boat Festival.
3. Tea eggs
Nanchang, Jiangxi has the custom of cooking tea eggs and salted eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival. The locals also dyed eggs, duck eggs and goose eggs red, put them in colorful net bags and hung them around their necks, hoping that the children would be safe and happy.
4. Garlic eggs
In rural areas such as Henan and Zhejiang, garlic and eggs are eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival. Eat garlic and eggs together to make breakfast. In some places, put some mugwort leaves when cooking garlic eggs. Eating garlic, eggs and fried buns for breakfast is said to avoid the "five poisons".
5, oil cake
Eating oil cakes on Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional custom in Lantian County, Shaanxi Province. Oil cake is made of scalded oil noodles, stuffed with white sugar, osmanthus, walnut kernel, rose and lard, and then fried in an oil pan. The fried cake is golden yellow, crisp outside and sweet inside, which makes people drool when they take a bite.
Step 6 make a cake
The most representative food for Korean people in Yanbian, Jilin Province to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival is making cakes. Cake-making is a kind of rice cake made by putting mugwort and glutinous rice into a stone mortar or wooden trough and beating them with a long-handled mallet. It is a kind of food with national characteristics.
7. Fried pile
Pile blasting, also known as hemp ball, hemp ball, etc. Made of flour, glutinous rice flour or sweet potato flour and white sugar, and fried in an oil pan. They are very chewy and especially sweet.
Every household in Jinjiang, Fujian should eat fried piles during the Dragon Boat Festival. According to legend, the rainy season was around the Dragon Boat Festival in ancient southern Fujian. People said that God had broken a hole and wanted to mend the sky. After eating fried piles on the Dragon Boat Festival, the rain stopped. People say that the weather is good, and this eating custom has been passed down to this day.
8. Ai Mo Mo
Eating Folium Artemisiae Argyi during the Dragon Boat Festival can sterilize and repel insects, and has inhibitory effects on a variety of bacteria and skin fungi. So in many places, rice flour or flour is fermented and steamed with mugwort, which tastes sweet and soft.
9. Face fan
Eating vermicelli on Dragon Boat Festival is very popular in Gansu and Ningxia. The local people make the hair into a fan shape with multiple layers, each layer is sprinkled with pepper, the surface is kneaded into various shapes of patterns, and then dyed with color, which is extremely beautiful.
10, pancakes
In parts of southern Fujian and Wenzhou, there is also the custom of eating pancakes during the Dragon Boat Festival. Pancakes are made into paste with flour, spread on a large flat-bottomed iron pot, made into translucent cakes, which look like a full moon and are as thin as a beautiful moon, and then rolled with fried bean sprouts, shredded lean meat, mushrooms and other fillings, and made into cylindrical food, similar to spring rolls.
1 1, mung bean cake
Wuhan, Nanjing, Wuhu, Xi 'an and other places will definitely eat mung bean cakes during the Dragon Boat Festival. "Gao" and "Gao" are homophonic, meaning the apprentice, and eating zongzi together during the Dragon Boat Festival also means "high school", which is the good wish of the students who are going to refer to it.
Huang Wu 12
"Dragon Boat Festival must eat Huang Wu, loquat stone head has a new taste. Cucumber with plum seeds is good, and it has realgar shochu fragrance. " There is a custom of eating "Huang Wu" on the Dragon Boat Festival in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. The traditional Dragon Boat Festival Huang Wu in the south of the Yangtze River refers to Monopterus albus, yellow croaker, cucumber, salted egg yolk and realgar (realgar is poisonous, so yellow wine is used instead).
Wu Hong 13
It is said that eating five reds during the Dragon Boat Festival can drive away five poisons and ward off evil spirits for a whole summer. However, the content of "five reds" varies from place to place. The common feature of these foods is that they turn red when cooked. Five reds generally include red amaranth, lobster, duck eggs in red oil, roast duck and eel.
In fact, whether it is Five Red or Huang Wu, it is mainly to dispel summer heat and ward off evil spirits.
14, five white people
Suzhou is the representative of Jiangnan water town. Dragon Boat Festival is characterized by eating five whites, generally only boiled white, boiled chicken, white tofu, cook the meat and white garlic.
What does it mean to eat on Dragon Boat Festival?
The implication of eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival
According to folklore, zongzi is eaten to commemorate the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan. In the Records of Historical Records, people can know that Qu Yuan was a minister of Chu. Qu Yuan united with Qi to fight against Qin. However, Qu Yuan's idea met with opposition, and since then Qu Yuan has been framed and relegated. When Qu Yuan was in exile, he learned that Chu State was attacked by Qin State. He was heartbroken and threw himself into the river.
It is reported that after the death of Qu Yuan, the people of Chu were deeply saddened. In order to prevent Qu Yuan's body from being eroded by fish and shrimp. People spontaneously throw zongzi into the river. What is the significance of eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival? It is to commemorate Qu Yuan, a festival custom that has been passed down to this day.
The implication of eating eggs on Dragon Boat Festival
Legend has it that a long time ago, a god of plague went to the world to spread the plague on children during the Dragon Boat Festival every year. As a mother, she was very distressed and went to the Nu Wa Niangniang Temple to burn incense and kowtow, begging her to eliminate disasters and save her children. On the Dragon Boat Festival, Nuwa asked the children to hang an egg bag in front of their skirts, which contained boiled salted eggs, so that the god of plague thought that they were all Nuwa's children and dared not harm them. Since then, the custom of eating eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival has gradually spread.
Eating eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival represents people's good wishes, which can ward off evil spirits and avoid summer heat, and is beneficial to people's health. In fact, eating eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival is for good luck, praying that people will not get sick for a year, and on the other hand, improving their lives.