Eating Customs of the Dragon Boat Festival
1. Eating Zongzi
Dragon Boat Festival commemorates the poet Qu Yuan’s habit of eating Zongzi. Nowadays, there are many types of Zongzi with different tastes. Very different, there are fresh meat rice dumplings, egg yolk rice dumplings, candied date rice dumplings, original flavor and so on. At this time, control the intake of rice dumplings according to the actual situation, and do not harm your body due to greed for delicious food. At the same time, remember to heat the rice dumplings before eating, which is safe and hygienic and reduces the burden on digestion.
2. Eat eggs
Be sure to boil eggs in the pot for cooking rice dumplings, and if possible, boil some duck eggs and goose eggs. After eating sweet rice dumplings dipped in sugar, Eat eggs dipped in salt to top them off. It is said that eating boiled eggs in the rice dumpling pot in May will prevent you from getting sores in the summer; eating duck eggs and goose eggs boiled in the rice dumpling pot in the sun at noon for a while will prevent headaches throughout the summer.
3. Picking tea and making herbal tea
In some areas in the north, people like to pick young leaves and wild vegetable leaves during the Dragon Boat Festival and steam and dry them to make tea. In the Chaozhou area of ??Guangdong, people go to the countryside to collect herbs and make herbal tea to drink. It's also good for health.
4. Eat oil cakes
In addition to eating rice dumplings, you also eat oil cakes on the Dragon Boat Festival. The oil cake is made of hot oiled noodles, stuffed with sugar, cinnamon, rose, walnut kernels, and lard, and deep-fried in an oil pan. The skin is loose and foamy, the filling is sweet, and the appearance is beautiful.
5. Drink Wujia wine
It is a folk custom to "pick Wujia on the fifth day of May and make Wujia wine". Acanthopanax refers to the bark of Acanthopanax, which has a bitter smell and aroma. The bark of the Acanthopanax tree has a strange fragrance and can nourish the liver and kidneys and strengthen the muscles and bones. Folks believe that drinking Wujia wine can ward off evil spirits. The medicinal uses of Acanthopanax bark are mainly used to treat hernia, abdominal pain, male impotence, persistent urination, female back pain, and leg pain, etc. Located in a humid area, it is especially suitable for drinking Wujia wine during the Dragon Boat Festival.
6. Glutinous rice with dates and dates
On Dragon Boat Festival, the Naxi people eat glutinous rice with dates and dates. Glutinous rice can warm and nourish the spleen and lungs, and replenish deficiency and coldness. Moreover, glutinous rice contains glutinous rice, which contains a lot of vitamins, a large amount of phosphorus, calcium, iron, protein and fat, and will increase the blood content of the human body. Therefore, special attention should be paid to the fact that people with diabetes should not eat.
7. Eat whistle noodles
Shaanxi people must eat whistle noodles on the Dragon Boat Festival. Saozi noodles are a Shaanxi snack with dozens of varieties, among which Qishan Saozi noodles are the most famous. The characteristics of saozi noodles are slender noodles, even thickness, fresh and fragrant saozi noodles, and shiny and rosy noodle soup. The local flavor of Qishan Saozi Noodles is particularly strong. It has the characteristics of thin, gluten, light, chewy, sour, spicy and fragrant, and has a soft and smooth taste.
8. Eat twists
The crispy twists are also a must-have food during the Dragon Boat Festival. The Dragon Boat Festival itself is to commemorate our great patriotic poet Qu Yuan. On this day, you cannot say some unlucky words, so eating sesame candy to stick your mouth is also to wish our life a sweet and beautiful life.
9. Eat "Five Reds" and "Five Yellows"
The traditional Dragon Boat Festival delicacies in Nanjing are "Five Yellows", namely eel, yellow croaker, duck egg yolk, cucumber, and realgar wine. With the changes of history and the development of society, the content of "Five Yellows" gradually evolved into the current "Five Reds", namely "roast duck, amaranth, duck eggs, lobster, and realgar wine". It is said that if you eat these "five reds" and "five yellows" during the Dragon Boat Festival, you can ward off evil spirits and heat throughout the summer.
10. Drinking calamus wine
Drinking calamus wine is a traditional custom during the Dragon Boat Festival. Chen Kechang, a scholar in the Southern Song Dynasty, once wrote a poem: "The bottles are filled with calamus, every year in early May." Calamus wine is a medicinal wine made from calamus as medicinal material and white wine or rice wine as raw wine. Drinking calamus wine during the Dragon Boat Festival is to ward off evil spirits and eliminate poisons. Drinking it for a long time can cure diseases and strengthen the body.
11. Eating Jiandui
In Jinjiang, Fujian Province, every household also eats "Jiandui" during the Dragon Boat Festival, which is a thick paste made of flour, rice flour or sweet potato flour and other ingredients. Fried. Legend has it that in ancient times, it was the rainy season in southern Fujian before the Dragon Boat Festival, and it rained continuously. Folks said that God had penetrated a hole and wanted to "repair the sky." After eating "Jiandui" during the Dragon Boat Festival, the rain stopped, and people said that the sky was repaired. This food custom comes from this.
12. Eat leaf dumplings
Leaf dumplings are a festival food for Yulin people, especially during the Dragon Boat Festival and Double Ninth Festival. There are many legends about leaf cake that cannot be verified anymore. One thing that is certain is that it has a long history. Later, leaf cake gradually evolved into a popular local traditional snack in Yulin.
13. Eating cakes
The Dragon Boat Festival is a grand festival for the Korean people in Yanbian, Jilin Province. The most representative food on this day is the fragrant cake. Da Gao is a rice cake made by placing mugwort and glutinous rice in a large wooden trough carved from a single log and using a long-handled wooden hammer. This kind of food is very ethnic and can add to the festive atmosphere.
14. Eating mugwort steamed buns
In many places during the Dragon Boat Festival, steamed steamed buns are steamed with fermented rice flour or flour and mugwort. Moxa contains a variety of volatile oils, which have an aromatic smell, can repel insects and sterilize, and have inhibitory effects on various bacteria and certain skin fungi. Therefore, in ancient times, moxa was indispensable for treating diseases and dispelling plague during the Dragon Boat Festival, whether eaten or used.
15. Eat peaches, eggplants and beans
Sichuan folklore says that eating peaches, eggplants and beans during the Dragon Boat Festival is believed to be healthy and longevity. As the saying goes: Eat eggplant until it shakes, eat beans until you grow old.
Hakka people in the Miaoli area also eat eggplant, long beans, peaches and plums during the Dragon Boat Festival. But the symbolic meaning of these foods may be different for southerners. Eating plums means taking advantage of them, and eating plums represents the reproduction of offspring. Some people also believe that it can prevent heatstroke. Eat long beans to avoid being bitten by snakes. Eating eggplant can prevent mosquito bites.
16. Eating noodle fans
In Minqin County, Gansu Province, people steam "noodle fans" on the Dragon Boat Festival. The noodle fan is made of steamed dough and is fan-shaped with 5 layers. Sprinkle each layer with finely ground cooked pepper, knead the surface into various patterns, and dye it with color, which is very beautiful. This food custom is said to have evolved from the custom of holding, selling and giving fans during the Dragon Boat Festival.
17. Eating mung bean cake
In many places in our country, in addition to rice dumplings, mung bean cake plays the leading role on the Dragon Boat Festival. It has the characteristics of regular and neat shape, light yellow color, fine and moist texture, and soft and non-sticky taste. The raw materials for making mung bean cake include mung bean flour, pea flour, brown sugar, osmanthus, etc. It is a good summer snack that can clear away heat and detoxify, protect the liver and kidneys.
18. Drink realgar wine
As the saying goes, "Drink realgar wine, and all diseases will go away." Around the Dragon Boat Festival, many areas in southern my country have entered the rainy season, and the weather conditions are conducive to the activities and reproduction of mosquitoes, flies and pests. Realgar is a traditional Chinese medicine used to detoxify and kill insects. It contains toxic arsenic salts. Pests will be poisoned if they smell it and eat it. People can avoid the poison by applying it. Many people also drink realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival. However, since the main component of realgar is arsenic disulfide, which can decompose into highly toxic arsenic when exposed to heat, it is not recommended to take it orally.
19. Eating pancakes
In Wenzhou, every family still has the custom of eating pancakes during the Dragon Boat Festival. Pancakes are made from refined white flour and mixed into a paste. They are baked in a large, flat iron frying pan into translucent pancakes shaped like a full moon and as thin as silk. They are then made with mung bean sprouts, leeks, shredded pork, and shredded eggs. , mushrooms, etc. are used as fillings, rolled into a cylinder, and you can taste a variety of flavors when you bite into it.