The Han Chinese in Hunan, Hubei and Jiangnan regions have the custom of eating boiled eggs with ground vegetables on March 3rd.

Practice of boiled eggs with ground vegetables: ground vegetables, wash and put into the pot, add the right amount of water, with cinnamon, aniseed fennel, five-spice powder, soy sauce and other condiments, with the eggs together with the decoction, the eggs will be cooked and picked up to eat, which is not only a delicious food, but also fitness and disease treatment. In Hunan, March 3 of the lunar calendar this day to eat vegetables boiled eggs is more concerned about fresh and ingredients, vegetables must be March 3 day to pick, and then with ginger, maple ball, jujube, curb thorns and other herbs and eggs with cooking, so that boiled out of the broth and the eggs have more medicinal value and significance. According to the old generation, if you want to really achieve the therapeutic effect of dispelling wind and defeating toxins, boiled green-shelled duck eggs with fresh ground vegetables is actually the best.