What traditional foods are eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival? 1. Zongzi. The custom of eating Zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival has a long history and remains popular.

To this day, almost every household eats rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival. The types and methods of rice dumplings are also different, and the tastes can range from salty to sweet.

Southern rice dumplings are most famous in Suzhou, Ningbo, Jiaxing and other places, and the fillings are mostly bean paste, ham, bacon, and jujube paste; northern rice dumplings are represented by jujube rice dumplings, and common fillings include jujubes, preserved fruits, etc.

2. Drink realgar wine. Folks probably believe that poisonous insects such as snakes, scorpions, centipedes, etc. can be eliminated by realgar wine. Drinking realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival can expel evil and detoxify.

However, modern people have discovered that realgar wine contains arsenic, a highly toxic substance, so they basically no longer drink realgar wine.

However, because realgar has antibacterial, detoxifying, and dehumidifying effects, on the Dragon Boat Festival, some people will use realgar as the main ingredient, add angelica, lavender and other spices to make sachets, and some will also make realgar smoked strips. I hope

Used to ward off evil spirits and prevent damage from insects and snakes.

3. Tea eggs: It is the custom to eat boiled tea eggs and salted eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival in Nanchang, Jiangxi.

Local people also dye eggs, duck eggs, and goose eggs red, put them in colorful mesh bags, and hang them around the necks of children, hoping that the children will be safe and good luck will come.

4. Garlic eggs: Rural areas in Henan, Zhejiang and other places eat garlic eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival.

It is eaten together with garlic and eggs for breakfast. In some places, a few pieces of mugwort leaves are added when cooking garlic eggs.

Eating garlic, eggs and fried steamed buns for breakfast is said to avoid the "five poisons".

5. Oil cakes Eating oil cakes during the Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional custom in Lantian County, Shaanxi Province.

The oil cake is made of hot oiled noodles, stuffed with sugar, sweet-scented osmanthus, walnut kernels, roses and lard, and then fried in a pan.

The fried oil cake is golden, crispy on the outside and sweet on the inside. One bite will make people salivate.

6. Da Gao The most representative food of the Korean people in Yanbian, Jilin Province during the Dragon Boat Festival is Da Gao.

Da Gao is a rice cake made by placing mugwort and glutinous rice in a stone mortar or wooden trough and beating it with a long-handled mallet. It is a food with very ethnic characteristics.

7. Jiandui Jiandui, also known as sesame balls, sesame balls, etc., is made by mixing flour, glutinous rice flour or sweet potato flour and sugar into a paste and frying it in an oil pan. It is very chewy and especially sweet.

Every household in Jinjiang, Fujian Province eats fried dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival.

According to legend, in ancient times, it was the rainy season around the Dragon Boat Festival in southern Fujian. People said that God had broken a hole in the sky and wanted to mend it.

After eating Jian Dui during the Dragon Boat Festival, the rain stopped, and people said that the sky was healed. This custom has been passed down to this day.

8. Moxa moxa is eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival, it can sterilize and repel insects, and has inhibitory effects on a variety of bacteria and skin fungi.

Therefore, in many places, rice flour or flour is fermented and then mixed with mugwort to steam and eat the buns, which have a sweet, soft and glutinous taste.

9. Noodle fans Eating noodle fans during the Dragon Boat Festival is popular in Gansu and Ningxia.

The locals make the dough into a fan shape with multiple layers. Each layer is sprinkled with pepper, and the surface is kneaded into various shapes and patterns, and then dyed with colors, which makes it very beautiful.

10. Pancakes: In some areas of southern Fujian and Wenzhou, there is also the custom of eating pancakes during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Pancakes are made by mixing flour into a paste, spreading them on a large, flat iron pot into a translucent pancake shaped like a full moon and as thin as a moon, and rolling them with fried bean sprouts, lean pork shreds, mushrooms and other fillings.

It is eaten in tube shape, similar to spring rolls.

11. Mung bean cake. In Wuhan, Nanjing, Wuhu, Xi'an and other places, people will definitely eat mung bean cake on the Dragon Boat Festival.

"Cake" has the same pronunciation as "高", which means rapid success. Eating it together with Dragon Boat Festival rice dumplings also means "high school". It is a good wish for students who are preparing for reference.

12. Five yellows: "You must eat five yellows during the Dragon Boat Festival. Loquat stone heads are a new taste. Cucumbers go well with yellow plums and have the aroma of realgar wine." There is a custom of eating "five yellows" during the Dragon Boat Festival in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

The Dragon Boat Festival five yellows in the Jiangnan tradition refers to eel, yellow croaker, cucumber, salted egg yolk and realgar wine (realgar is poisonous and is now replaced by rice wine).

13. Five reds: It is said that eating five reds on the Dragon Boat Festival can drive away the five poisons, and can ward off evil spirits and ward off heat throughout the summer.

However, the contents of the five reds vary from place to place. The most common feature of these foods is that they turn red after being cooked.

The five reds are generally red amaranth, lobster, duck eggs with red oil, roast duck, and eel.

In fact, whether it is five reds or five yellows, it is mainly to dispel heat and ward off evil spirits.

14. Five whites. In water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, represented by Suzhou, the specialty of the Dragon Boat Festival is to eat five whites. The five whites usually only include wild rice, white chopped chicken, white tofu, white chopped meat, and white garlic.

I saw Dragon Boat Festival delicacies from ancient poems "Jie Ling Men·Duan Yang" Qing Dynasty: Li Jingshan Cherry, mulberry and calamus, and even bought a pot of realgar wine.

There is a yellow paper post hanging high outside the door, but it is suspected that the account owner is afraid of the magic talisman.

During the Dragon Boat Festival, I bought cherries, peaches, mulberries, calamus, and realgar wine, and put yellow talisman paper on my door. Although I posted so many evil things, I was still worried about creditors coming to my door. This song

The poem shows the real life situation of poor people celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival, with a bit of bitterness in the humor.

"Yimao Chongwu Poems" Song Dynasty: Lu You Chongwu Mountain Village is good, but the durian flowers have suddenly become numerous.

The rice dumpling bun is divided into two buns, and the moxa is tied with a dangerous crown.

The old folk prescriptions are used to store medicines, and elixirs are also prescribed for those with weak bodies.

As the sun sets, I finish my work and smile at the cup and plate.

"The Five Poems of Yimao Chong" specifically describes the living habits of the Southern Song Dynasty on the Dragon Boat Festival.

The author ate two corners of the rice dumpling, with mugwort branches stuck in his high crown.

As usual, I am busy storing medicines and preparing prescriptions, so that I can be safe and disease-free this year.

In the evening, he drank wine happily.

From this, we can see that the Dragon Boat Festival customs in the south of the Yangtze River have both the meaning of commemorating Qu Yuan and the content of health care.