1, Zongzi: Eating Zongzi is the most important dietary custom in the Dragon Boat Festival. Zongzi is a delicious food made of zongzi leaves and glutinous rice. The taste of zongzi in different regions is very different. Northern areas like to eat sweet zongzi, while southern areas like to eat salty zongzi.
2. Make cakes; Cake-making is a rice cake made by putting mugwort and glutinous rice in a big wooden trough chiseled with a single wood and beating with a long-handled wood. It is the most popular food in Yanbian area of northeast China during the Dragon Boat Festival.
3. Deep-frying: Deep-frying is made by mixing flour, rice flour or sweet potato powder into a thick paste and then frying it. It is a delicious food that every household in Fujian has to eat during the Dragon Boat Festival.
Huang Wu: Huang Wu refers to yellow croaker, cucumber, eel, duck egg yolk and realgar wine, which is a custom in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. People think that eating Huang Wu during the Dragon Boat Festival can exorcise evil spirits, detoxify and keep healthy.