1. Eating cakes

On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, it will be the Dragon Boat Festival again. As we all know, the Dragon Boat Festival is the day when Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet, threw himself into the river. In most parts of the country, people eat zongzi to commemorate him. However, in Taizhou, we often eat cake cones to commemorate another national hero-General Qi Jiguang.

2. Zongzi

How to eat Zongzi? It is also a great knowledge for Taizhou people.

As far as eating zongzi is concerned, Taizhou can be divided into two parts.

Salted zongzi, besides fresh meat zongzi, Yuhuan Kanmen's seafood zongzi is extremely famous. Braised leaves of rice dumplings with hot water and soaked all night, washed with hot oil and stir-fried glutinous rice with secret seasoning, and served with special pork belly, dried razor clams, dried shrimps, mushrooms, chestnuts, scallops and egg yolks. It's simply the enjoyment of taste buds ~

Sweet rice dumplings, as long as the candied dates are sweet enough, the taste of sweet rice dumplings can be properly grasped, and they can be put into two or three.

3. Garlic Eggs

Every Dragon Boat Festival in rural Taizhou, housewives get up very early and cook garlic and eggs prepared in advance for breakfast. In some places, a few pieces of mugwort leaves are put when cooking garlic and eggs. Eating garlic, eggs and fried buns for breakfast is said to avoid the "five poisons" and is good for health.

4. Eat wuhuang

Han folk customs. In the fifth month of the lunar calendar, Taizhou is called the May Yellow Moon, which is named after five kinds of foods with "yellow" sounds are on the market. On the Dragon Boat Festival, Taizhou's daughter will go back to her mother's house, and her son-in-law will prepare "wuhuang" for her mother-in-law. The wuhuang includes yellow croaker, eel, salted duck eggs, cucumber and realgar wine, which is called "eating wuhuang".

At noon on the Dragon Boat Festival, the most suitable meal for wuhuang is to mix five kinds of yellow food. Because the theory of traditional Chinese medicine holds that the Dragon Boat Festival is on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, which is the peak of yang in a year, and at noon, which is the peak of yang in a day, we can use the power of the solar terms of the Dragon Boat Festival to curb bad luck and improve our energy.

5. Drink Dragon Boat Festival tea

According to the record of local customs, "the end is also the beginning, and it is also right. At noon on the 5 th, it was the middle festival, pretending to avoid evil. "

Therefore, in the traditional Dragon Boat Festival, there are customs such as taking midday water, drinking midday tea and Dragon Boat Festival tea, and collecting herbs in the mountains. The origin of drinking tea during the Dragon Boat Festival dates back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. During the Dragon Boat Festival, people go up the mountain to pick herbs and hang them in their homes for drinking all the year round, so as to prevent diseases, keep fit, beauty beauty, prevent heatstroke and quench thirst, and eliminate filth and exorcism.

Dragon Boat Festival tea, also known as Baicao tea and Baijia tea. According to legend, between Tang Jing and the Year of the Loong, Ye Fashan, a Taoist Tianshi, heard that there were many people infected with the plague in Songyang area, so he hurried back to his hometown, called the Taoist priests to collect herbs, cooked them with Maoshan spring water, and put tea in a vat and wooden tong to eliminate the disaster. When people heard the news, they rushed to beg for tea and drank several times to get rid of the epidemic. This kind of tea, which made the disease disappear, later evolved into the present "Dragon Boat Festival Tea".

expanded content: why eat cake cones?

Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. According to the Records of Jingchu's Years, it is recorded that it is midsummer when the sun is on the mountain in midsummer, and it is midsummer in May. Its first afternoon is the day when it is sunny to climb the mountain in the sun, so the fifth day of May is also called "Duanyang Festival". In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Noon Festival, May Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Bathing Orchid Festival, Poet Festival" and so on.

It's the Dragon Boat Festival another year. As we all know, the Dragon Boat Festival is the day when Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet, threw himself into the river. In most parts of the country, people eat zongzi to commemorate him. However, in Taizhou, especially in Jiaojiang, Luqiao, Huangyan and Wenling in the south, eating cake cones is more to commemorate another national hero-General Qi Jiguang.

In memory of Qi Jiguang

Although Qi Jiguang was not from Zhejiang, Qi Jiguang's anti-Japanese war in Taizhou made the Japanese pirates dare not go back to the coast of Taizhou, defending their homeland for the people of Taizhou and winning the high respect of the people of Taizhou.

During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese invaders invaded the southeast coast of China on a large scale, colluded with the pirates and plundered extensively, and the people were in dire straits. In 1559, the imperial court appointed Qi Jiguang as a general of Taiwan Jin Yan to go to Zhejiang to direct the anti-Japanese war. Qi Jiguang recruited Yiwu miners to train Qi Jiajun to adapt to the "Yuanyang Array" tactics of fighting in paddy fields in the south of the Yangtze River, and established a navy division, which dealt a heavy blow to the enemy. Qi Jiguang was in Haimen for four years, and moved to all parts of Taizhou. After Taozhu, Haimen, Xinhe, Baishuiyang and Changsha triumph, he created the enemy and won nine battles and nine victories, which is called "Taizhou triumph" in history. According to legend, after the victory, every family cooked dishes and wanted to reward the army. But how to send it to the military camp is really a difficult problem. It's too far to carry, so you can't even send a bowl, can you? So the clever fisherman's daughter made a cake crust, wrapped it in food, and put the vegetable bag in and gave it to the soldiers.

According to Taizhou people, as long as there are no bones or thorns, mung bean noodles, long cowpea, fried shredded pork, fresh pomfret, fried rice noodles, razor clams, fried shredded squid, shredded eel, shredded egg and fresh shrimp can be wrapped in a cake container. Choose your favorite and put it on the wheat cake skin. Put a little of everything on it, wrap it, roll it and eat it. It's really unexpected and delicious, mixed with the delicate flavor of seafood, eggs and vegetables.

Later, this way of eating became a custom. At that time, it was the Dragon Boat Festival. Since then, people will eat cake cones to commemorate General Qi every Dragon Boat Festival.

Of course, in Linhai, Xianju, Tiantai and other places in the north of Taizhou, the Dragon Boat Festival still follows the crowd and eats zongzi.