1, dumplings

Only eat half a day or one, eat dumplings every day do not exceed 50 grams, that is, half or one. Especially gastrointestinal diseases and diabetic patients are best to eat less or not eat, the elderly should not be greedy for more cold, it is best to divide into small pieces of many times to eat. Some businesses sell mini dumplings is a good choice.

2, eel

Over the Dragon Boat Festival is not only to eat rice dumplings, but also the most tender eel meat in a year, the most nutritious time, so there is a "Dragon Boat Festival eel race ginseng" proverb. Eel is always a popular freshwater aquatic product due to its soft and smooth texture without thorns, especially for children and the elderly, it is a good tonic.

3, the cake

Duanwu Festival is a grand festival of the Korean people in Yanbian, Jilin Province. The most representative food on this day is the fragrant cake. The cake, is the wormwood and glutinous rice, placed in a large wooden groove chiseled from a single tree, with a long-handled wooden whip made of rice cakes. This food is very ethnic and adds to the festive atmosphere.

First put the rice into the water to soak for a period of time, fish out into the pot to steam, will be steamed rice into the wooden trough or stone trough, with a wooden pole repeatedly beat. Generally more than two people standing face to face at the edge of the trough, alternating with each other pounding, or a person pounding, a person underneath the turning cake dough to make it even pounding. Subsequently, a sweet and delicate, glutenous and tasty cake production is completed.

4, duck eggs

Duanwu Festival in addition to commemorate Qu Yuan there is to avoid the five poisons, because of the legend of the five poisonous monsters to the end of the Dragon Boat Festival will be harmful to the human world, the five poisonous monsters are snakes, centipedes, spiders, geckos and scorpions, the folk with five kinds of red dishes to symbolize the blood of these five poisons, eating these dishes, it will be the five poisonous monsters to run away, that is, to eat the five red, respectively, are roasted duck, amaranth, red oil duck eggs, lobster and other food. , red oil duck eggs, lobster, and xionghuang wine. It is said that when you eat these five reds at the Dragon Boat Festival, you will be able to ward off evil spirits and avoid the summer heat for the whole summer.

Similar to the five red, Jiangnan folk Dragon Boat Festival and eat five yellow food customs. Five yellow refers to eel, yellow fish, cucumber, salted duck eggs and xionghuang wine. Whether it is five red or five yellow, including duck eggs, so the Dragon Boat Festival to eat duck eggs have a reason to ward off the summer heat.

5, Ai bun

Many places over the Dragon Boat Festival also use rice flour or flour fermentation and Ai artemisia with steamed buns. Ai contains a variety of volatile oils, has an aromatic odor, can be antiseptic, on a variety of bacteria and some skin fungi have an inhibitory effect, so in ancient times at the Dragon Boat Festival in addition to the disease to drive away the plague, regardless of whether the food or with, Ai are essential.

6, tea eggs

Nanchang area in Jiangxi Province, the Dragon Boat Festival to cook tea eggs and salt water eggs to eat. Eggs are eggs, duck eggs, goose eggs. Eggshells painted red, with colorful mesh bags, hanging in the neck of small children, meaning that the blessing of the child in good luck, peace.

7, garlic eggs

Henan, Zhejiang and other provinces in the countryside every Dragon Boat Festival day, the housewife got up especially early, will be prepared in advance of the garlic and eggs cooked together for the family breakfast. Some places, but also in the cooking garlic and eggs put a few pieces of mugwort leaves. Breakfast food garlic, eggs, fried bread, this diet is said to avoid the "five poisons", good health.

8, fried heap

Jinjiang, Fujian area, the Dragon Boat Festival, every family will eat "fried heap". The so-called fried heap, is made of flour, rice flour or sweet potato flour and other ingredients into a thick paste, under the frying pan fried into a large area. Legend has it that in ancient times, it was the rainy season in southern Fujian before the Dragon Boat Festival, and the rain was continuous, and the folk said that the God of Heaven had pierced a hole and had to "mend the sky". The Dragon Boat Festival ate "fried piles" after the rain will stop, people say the sky mending.

9, yellow wine

Folk believe that snakes, scorpions, centipedes and other venomous insects can be cracked by xionghuang wine, Dragon Boat Festival drink xionghuang wine can drive away evil spirits and detoxification. Xionghuang wine contains highly toxic substances arsenic, basically do not drink xionghuang wine. Because of the andrographis has antibacterial, detoxification, dampness effect, so to the Dragon Boat Festival this day, there will be people will be based on the andrographis, adding Angelica dahurica, lavender and other spices made into incense bags, also made into the andrographis smoked strips, hope to be used to ward off the evil spirits and to prevent insects and snakes from harming.

10, eat noodles fan

Minqin County, Gansu Province, around the Dragon Boat Festival this day are steamed "noodles fan". Noodle fan steamed with flour, fan-shaped, with five layers. Each layer is sprinkled with finely ground cooked pepper, the surface of the pinch into a variety of patterns, dyed colors, very nice. This food custom is said to have evolved from the custom of making, selling and giving fans at the Dragon Boat Festival.

11, eat pancakes

In the Wenzhou area, the Dragon Boat Festival families also eat pancakes custom. Pancake is the use of fine white flour into a paste, in a large and flat iron skillet, baked into a sheet shaped like a full moon, as thin as silk translucent cake, and then mung bean sprouts, leeks, shredded meat, shredded eggs, mushrooms, etc. as a filling, rolled into a cylinder, a bite, you can taste a variety of flavors.

12, leaf biscuits

Leaf biscuits, Yulin people's festive food especially in the Dragon Boat Festival and Chung Yeung Festival are essential food. Leaf biscuits about the legend there are many has not been able to test one thing can be sure is that the history of quite a long time. To the later leaf meat gradually evolved into a popular local Yulin local traditional snacks.

13, Taiwan - eat peaches, eggplants and beans

Taiwan is rumored to eat peaches, eggplants and beans at the Dragon Boat Festival, can be healthy, long. As the saying goes: "Eat eggplant eat to will shake, eat beans eat to old old". Hakka people in the Miaoli area also eat eggplant and long beans, peaches and plums during the Dragon Boat Festival. However, the meaning of these foods is different from that of the southern people. Eat the son is certainly to take its long meaning, eat plums to symbolize the reproduction of children and grandchildren, some people also believe that it can prevent heatstroke.