What traditional food do you eat during the Dragon Boat Festival?
1, 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 into translucent cakes in a large flat iron pot, which are shaped like a full moon and as thin as a beautiful moon, and then rolled with fried bean sprouts, shredded lean meat, mushrooms and other fillings to make a tube shape, similar to spring rolls.
2. Zongzi
Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is a common traditional custom in northern and southern China. In the north, we mainly eat triangular sweet zongzi, with candied dates, dates and red bean paste as stuffing. The most representative is the honey zongzi in Beijing. The south mainly eats salty zongzi, and the stuffing is mainly salty pork belly. In the south, we mainly eat quadrangular zongzi, pointed triangular zongzi and square zongzi.
3. Huang Wu
"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).
4. salted duck eggs
Also known as green husk, green egg and salted duck egg, it was called salted shuttlecock in ancient times, which is a special dish in China. Salted duck eggs, which have a long history in China, are deeply loved by ordinary people, as well as in the market. Mung bean cake is also a kind of Dragon Boat Festival food, which is basically available in the south and rarely eaten by northerners.
5. Fried pile
Stir-frying piles is a tradition in Fujian. Before the Dragon Boat Festival in that area, it was prone to rain because of the climate. The folklore "the sky is leaking" needs mending. So, sweet potato powder, flour and so on. They were all mixed into paste and fried into cakes, as if they had mended the sky. But it really seldom rains in this place after the Dragon Boat Festival.
Step 6 twist
It is a special fried pasta snack in China. According to legend, Chai Jinwen, a native of the Eastern Han Dynasty, invented the twist. Location: Xianyang, Shaanxi, Jishan, Chongyang, Tianjin, Hunan and other places. Among them, Jishan in Shanxi is famous for its salty sesame oil crisp, Chongyang in Hubei is famous for its small twist, and Tianjin is famous for its big twist.
7. Ai Mo Mo
Eating wormwood 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 leaves, which tastes sweet and soft.
The above is the introduction of what traditional food to eat on Dragon Boat Festival. I hope the content shared today can help you, and I wish you a happy life and good health.