1, Dragon Boat Festival to eat
1, eat peaches, eggplant and beans
Taiwanese popular tradition of Dragon Boat Festival to eat peaches, eggplants and beans, can be healthy, long. As the saying goes: "Eat eggplant eat to will shake, eat beans eat to old old". Miaoli region of the Hakka people celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, also eat eggplant and long beans, peaches and plums.
But the meaning of these foods is different from that of the southern people. Eating seeds certainly takes the meaning of its length, while eating plums symbolizes the reproduction of offspring, and some people also believe that it can prevent heatstroke. Eating long beans is to avoid being bitten by snakes (because long beans are shaped like snakes).
Eating eggplant on the Dragon Boat Festival can prevent mosquito bites (because eggplant is called "hanging vegetables" in Hakka, and "bite", the local pronunciation is "tidal wave of a Yan Yan", and will take its harmonic sound).
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2, roll eat chicken, duck and goose eggs
All over the country are popular. The morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, the Northeast is a boiled chicken, duck and goose eggs by the elders on the children's belly rolling, and then peeled for children to eat, it is said that this can be done to avoid children's stomach ache, is actually a festive playful child games.
Other areas are mainly boiled, it is said that the original into the river water to feed the fish and shrimp to save Qu Yuan, so as to avoid the bones of the fish and shrimp, and then evolved into a boiled food to commemorate.
3, eat "five yellow"
With the five red similar to the Dragon Boat Festival in the south of the Yangtze River folk custom of eating five yellow. 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.
4, drink yellow wine
"Qingjiazhu" records: "research andrographis end, crumbs Pu root, and wine to drink, known as the andrographis wine." That is to say, andrographis is made of white wine, andrographis blended. Why is such a simple drink so famous? This is probably related to the story of the White Lady and Xu Xian, the White Lady is in the Dragon Boat Festival on this day to drink andrographis, now the original form of the snake.
Thus, the folk probably think that the snake, scorpion, centipede and other venomous insects can be cracked by xionghuang wine, and drinking xionghuang wine on the Dragon Boat Festival can drive away evil spirits and detoxify the poison.
However, modern people have found that Xionghuang wine contains arsenic, a highly toxic substance, so basically do not drink Xionghuang wine.
However, because of the anti-bacterial, detoxification, dampness effect of xionghuang, so to the Dragon Boat Festival day, there will be people will be based on xionghuang, adding Angelica dahurica, lavender, and other spices made into incense bags, there are made into xionghuang smoked strips, hoping to use to ward off the evil spirits and to prevent insects and snakes from harming.
5, eat 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. In some places, also put a few pieces of mugwort leaves when cooking garlic and eggs.
Breakfast food garlic, eggs, fried bread, this diet is said to avoid the "five poisons", good health.
6, eat ai bun
Many places over the Dragon Boat Festival also use rice flour or flour fermentation and artemisia together with steamed buns.
Ai contains a variety of volatile oils, aromatic odor, can be insecticidal, on a variety of bacteria and some skin fungi have 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.
7, eat tea eggs
Early China's Jiangxi Nanchang area, every year at the Dragon Boat Festival is to cook tea eggs and salt water eggs to eat. Boiled eggs eggs, duck eggs, goose eggs are available.
The eggshells are painted red and packed in colorful mesh bags and hung around the necks of small children, meaning that the children are blessed with good fortune and peace.
8, eat "five red"
In Yangzhou traditional folklore, the Dragon Boat Festival, in addition to eating zongzi, but also eat "five red" - roast duck, amaranth, duck eggs, lobster, yellow fish or eel - so that the whole summer can avoid the evils of summer heat.
In the Dragon Boat Festival when the table red amaranth is more than indispensable to every family; and also have a red salted duck, its egg price is not high; and also less than staghorn soaked in wine was orange, color with it;
River shrimp to buy a little, fried in oil, shrimp shells red red glossy oil; roasted duck on the market, to the duck store chopped a breast or leg (1/4) cost little, so the so-called "five red", so, so the so-called "five red". "five red" also became the Dragon Boat Festival table must menu.
9, eat fried heap
Jinjiang region of Fujian, Dragon Boat Festival, every family will eat "fried heap", that is, with flour, rice flour or sweet potato flour and other ingredients into a thick paste fried.
According to legend, in ancient times, the area of southern Fujian in the Dragon Boat Festival before the rainy season, rainy and cloudy more than, folk said that the sky through the hole, to "make up for the sky". The Dragon Boat Festival ate "fried pile" after the rain will stop, people say that the sky mending. This food custom is derived from this.
10, eat 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. Cake, is the wormwood and glutinous rice, placed in a large wood chiseled groove, with a long-handled wooden whip made of rice cakes. This food is very ethnic and adds to the festive atmosphere.
In fact, in different regions, as people for the Dragon Boat Festival customs will be different, therefore, in the choice of traditional food and collocation, naturally, there will be some differences, and this article mentioned ten food, are in the Dragon Boat Festival we often eat traditional food.
2, Dragon Boat Festival to eat rice dumplings need to pay attention to
(1) eat in moderation
The rice dumplings, although the flavor is very good, but can not be eaten more than one, because the rice dumplings are glutinous rice, this rice is far from ordinary rice is good for digestion, so we do not recommend that we eat too much, which can easily lead to gastric distension stomach aches in the eating rice dumplings. When you eat rice dumplings can also be combined with some vegetables and fruits to promote digestion, so that the burden on the stomach will be a little smaller, but try not to choose cold fruits.
(2) avoid eating rice dumplings on an empty stomach
If the stomach is only glutinous rice, because the characteristics of glutinous rice is not well-digested, leading to it, he stayed inside the stomach for a long time, and then it will keep stimulating the stomach secretion of gastric acid to digest, which will lead to gastrointestinal inflammation and other symptoms, especially for the people who have gastric problems, especially do not eat rice dumplings on an empty stomach.
(3) Do not eat with cold drinks
Sticky rice in the hot stomach digestion, although more laborious, but as long as you eat is not very or can be digested, but if you eat rice dumplings also drank cold drinks, then it will lead to the sticky rice cooling coagulation, so that the stomach digested is very difficult, so it is best not to consume with cold drinks.