Traditionally, adults and children have to eat "zongzi", that is, zongzi, steamed stuffed bun, chicken (tea eggs), duck (salted duck eggs) and garlic. It means that all five sons have been admitted to this subject.
There is also a place to eat Huang Wu.
Eating Huang Wu can keep you healthy and enhance your vitality.
According to the tradition of Jiangnan people, the Dragon Boat Festival includes eating "Huang Wu juice" (Monopterus albus), yellow croaker, cucumber, salted egg yolk and realgar wine (realgar wine is poisonous, and ordinary rice wine is generally used instead of realgar wine). In addition, some people say that salted duck eggs can be replaced by soybeans.
In the legend of the white snake, the white snake drinks realgar wine and shows off its body. Therefore, people think that realgar wine can drive away poisonous insects such as snakes, scorpions and centipedes, and drinking yellow wine on Dragon Boat Festival can drive away evil spirits, detoxify people and keep healthy.
At noon on the Dragon Boat Festival, it is best to eat Huang Wu rice, that is, to mix Huangwu cuisine together. Traditional Chinese medicine theory, because the Dragon Boat Festival is on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, it is the most in a year. At noon, Yang Tiandi is most angry. He can use the power of Dragon Boat Festival to curb bad luck and improve his energy.
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In traditional festivals, the diversity and complexity of folk customs, or only the Dragon Boat Festival can be compared with the Spring Festival, all have etiquette and custom themes such as praying for good fortune and eliminating disasters, which places people's desire to welcome auspicious blessings and ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters.
The Dragon Boat Festival has integrated a variety of folk customs in its historical development and evolution. There are many customs of Dragon Boat Festival, with various forms, rich and colorful contents, and lively and festive.
Due to different regional cultures, the content or details of customs vary from place to place in China. The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival mainly include dragon boat picking, Dragon Boat Festival, herb picking, hanging wormwood and calamus, ancestor worship, washing herbal water, drinking water at noon, soaking in dragon boats, eating zongzi, flying kites, tying colorful silk thread, smoking Atractylodes lancea and wearing sachets.
Dragon Boat Race is very popular in the southern coastal areas of China, which is deeply loved by people all over the world and has formed an international competition. The custom of eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival has been popular all over China since ancient times, and it has become one of the most influential and widespread folk food customs of the Chinese nation.
Performing traditional folk activities during the Dragon Boat Festival can not only enrich people's spiritual and cultural life, but also inherit and carry forward traditional culture. Dragon Boat Festival culture has a wide influence in the world, and some countries and regions in the world also celebrate it.