In two days is the Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon Boat Festival, the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, is our country in order to commemorate the existence of Qu Yuan and a traditional festival, there are also places called Duan Yang Festival as well as heavy five festival and so on. We all know the custom of Dragon Boat Festival is to eat zongzi, dragon boat racing. Of course, the customs of each place is not the same, some places, people will also eat acacia flowers on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival. Then there is no we do not know the Dragon Boat Festival customs? We are going to talk about the food that is suitable for the Dragon Boat Festival. Today we will briefly list a few: eel, tea eggs, fried dumplings (also known as sesame dumplings), moxa buns, pancakes, and mung bean cake, to name a few.

First, let's talk about the customs of our hometown. When I was a kid, my family would prepare a new set of clothes for the old people and children in the family at the Dragon Boat Festival, and from the first day of May to the fifth day of the month, a total of *** five days, every day is a different way to eat food. The first day to eat pastries, the second day to eat peaches, the third day to eat conch, the fourth day of Ai Bun Bun, the fifth day of tea duck eggs as well as dumplings. So when I was a child, a Dragon Boat Festival, no less than the feeling of the New Year, is every child's favorite holiday. Most of the pastries refer to mung bean cake, peaches, fujian area only peach and peach, ai buns many people behind the simplification for hanging mugwort, dumplings need not be said. Duck eggs why? It is said that eating duck eggs on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival can make you not afraid of thunderstorms, and you will not be injured in the rain. You know, there are too many summer thunderstorms in southern Fujian.

Again, why eat eel on the Dragon Boat Festival? There is nothing extra to say, except that it is the right time to eat eel. The Dragon Boat Festival around the time of the season, is the four seasons of the year, the eel is the most nutritious, the fish is the most tender time. This season to eat eel, not only can maintain the best eel nourishing effect, but also to maintain the most beautiful flavor. So there is often such a saying? The eel of the Dragon Boat Festival is better than ginseng?

Many places Dragon Boat Festival, like to eat hemp dumplings, in southern Fujian, we call it fried pile. There are also some places people call it hemp ball. Specifically how to do it? Is the main raw material of glutinous rice flour, add a certain proportion of flour, sugar and so on into a paste, and then deep-fried into the pot, similar to the current hemp dumplings, eat up to sweet, Q full of elasticity. People in southern Fujian, Dragon Boat Festival, every family will do a little fried pile, this is a legend. Around the Dragon Boat Festival is the rainy season in Fujian, it is said that the Dragon Boat Festival day to eat fried, can achieve the effect of stopping the rain. This is the same effect as the Dragon Boat Festival tea duck eggs.