Special food of Dragon Boat Festival
1 Zongzi
Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional custom in China. Zongzi has many shapes and varieties, including regular triangle, regular quadrangle, pointed triangle, square and long. Due to the different tastes in different regions of China, there are two main types: sweet and salty.
2. realgar wine
The custom of drinking realgar wine on Dragon Boat Festival is very popular in the Yangtze River valley. White wine or yellow wine brewed from powdered realgar. Realgar can be used as an antidote and insecticide. Therefore, the ancients believed that realgar could inhibit snakes, scorpions and other pests. "Good can kill all poisons, eliminate all evils and cure all poisons. When people turn upside down, tigers and wolves crouch in the mountains, and all kinds of poisons enter the Sichuan water to avoid it. "
3. Huang Wu
There is a custom of eating "Huang Wu" on the Dragon Boat Festival in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. Huang Wu refers to yellow croaker, cucumber, Monopterus albus, duck egg yolk and realgar wine (realgar wine is toxic, and ordinary rice wine is generally used instead of realgar wine). There are other sayings that salted duck eggs can be replaced by soybeans. In the fifth month of the lunar calendar, Jiangnan people call it May and Yellow Moon.
4. Tea eggs
Nanchang, Jiangxi has the custom of cooking tea eggs and salted eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival. The locals also dyed eggs, duck eggs and goose eggs red and hung them around their necks in colorful net bags, hoping that the children would be safe and happy.
Step 5 make a cake
Dragon Boat Festival is a grand festival for Korean people in Yanbian, Jilin Province. The most representative food on this day is sweet cake. Caking is to put mugwort and glutinous rice in a big wooden trough carved from a piece of wood and beat it with a long-handled wood. This kind of food has national characteristics and can add festive atmosphere.
6. Garlic eggs
Rural areas in Henan, Zhejiang and other places should eat garlic and eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival. Eat garlic and eggs together to make breakfast. In some places, a few pieces of mugwort leaves are put when cooking garlic eggs. Eating garlic, eggs and fried buns for breakfast is said to avoid the "five poisons".
7. Fried pile
In Jinjiang, Fujian, every household will eat "fried piles" on the Dragon Boat Festival, which is a thick paste made of flour, rice flour or sweet potato flour and other ingredients. According to legend, in ancient times, it was the rainy season in southern Fujian before the Dragon Boat Festival, and the rain continued. People say that God has pierced a hole and wants to "mend the sky". The rain stopped after eating "fried piles" on the Dragon Boat Festival. People say that the sky has been mended. This diet custom comes from this.
8. Oil cake
Eating oil cakes on Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional custom in Lantian County, Shaanxi Province. Oil cake is made of scalded oil noodles, stuffed with white sugar, osmanthus, walnuts, roses and lard, and then fried in an oil pan. The fried oil cake is golden yellow, crisp outside and sweet inside, which makes people drool when they take a bite.
9.Monopterus albus
Around the Dragon Boat Festival, eel meat is the most tender and nutritious time in a year, which not only tastes good, but also has the best nourishing effect. Therefore, there is a folk saying that eels compete with ginseng on the Dragon Boat Festival.
10, Ai DOG
Eating Folium Artemisiae Argyi during the Dragon Boat Festival 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 steamed with mugwort after fermentation, which tastes sweet and soft.
1 1, face fan
Eating vermicelli on Dragon Boat Festival is very popular in Gansu and Ningxia. The local people make the hair into a fan shape with multiple layers, each layer is sprinkled with pepper, the surface is kneaded into various shapes of patterns, and then dyed with color, which is extremely beautiful.
12 pancakes
In southern Fujian and parts of Wenzhou, there is also the custom of eating pancakes during the Dragon Boat Festival. Pancakes are made into paste with flour, spread into translucent cakes on a large flat-bottomed iron pan, which look like a full moon and are as thin as a beautiful moon, and rolled with fried bean sprouts, shredded lean meat, mushrooms and other fillings, and made into tubular food, similar to spring rolls.
13 mung bean cake
Wuhan, Nanjing, Wuhu, Xi and other places will definitely eat mung bean cakes during the Dragon Boat Festival. "Gao" and "Gao" are homonyms, meaning the apprentice, and eating with the Dragon Boat Festival Zongzi also means "high school", which is a good wish for students preparing for the exam.
14, five red
It is said that eating five reds during the Dragon Boat Festival can drive away five poisons and ward off evil spirits for a whole summer. However, the content of "five reds" varies from place to place. The common feature of these foods is that they turn red when cooked. Five reds are generally red amaranth, lobster, duck eggs in red oil, roast duck and eel.
15, five white people
Suzhou is the representative of Jiangnan water town. Dragon Boat Festival is characterized by eating five whites, generally only boiled white, boiled chicken, white tofu, cook the meat and white garlic.
16, salted duck eggs
Although many people usually eat it, it is meaningful to eat salted duck eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival. In ancient times, May was reset to a poisonous month, and people ate salted duck eggs to avoid the five poisons, which refer to snakes, centipedes, spiders, geckos and scorpions.
17, twist
Crisp and crisp twist is also a must-have food for the Dragon Boat Festival. Because the Dragon Boat Festival has always been said to have five poisons, the custom of making twist on the Dragon Boat Festival has been circulated among the people. Because twist is also called sesame candy, it is unlucky to let children eat sesame candy to stick their mouths on this day to protect their health and wish our life sweet and beautiful.
Bergen 18
Scolopendra is the general name of all kinds of roots and barks that can only be eaten around the Dragon Boat Festival, including fennel root, chicken thorn root, little red garlic, Paris polyphylla, Polygonum multiflorum Thunb, Li Feifen, Manshanxiang, Achyranthes bidentata, Angelica sinensis, burdock root, asparagus and so on. These "medicinal roots" with different shapes and different curative effects constitute the unique "centipede" of Yunnan Dragon Boat Festival. During the Dragon Boat Festival, the streets and alleys in Pu 'er and Simao areas of Yunnan Province began to be filled with hundreds of different kinds of zongzi.
The picked hundred roots are stewed with native chicken, which has a unique flavor and is very fresh and fragrant, rather than the bitter taste common in medicinal materials. Eating a hundred pieces of chicken soup on the Dragon Boat Festival should be related to the environment of boils in southwest China in ancient times, and it is also because the Dragon Boat Festival is the most serious time of poisoning in a year, which is the same as expelling the five poisons in other places.
19 distilled rice
It is very popular in some Jin-speaking areas. Distilled rice is rice steamed with yellow rice (millet). Steamed rice is a famous food popular in Taiyuan, Jinzhong and Lvliang. Because of their exquisite craftsmanship, rich nutrition and profound culture, the children of Sanjin have been the core food for fairs, temple fairs, weddings, Dragon Boat Festival and Laba for thousands of years.
20. Eat peaches, eggplant and kidney beans.
In Sichuan, it is said that eating peaches, eggplant and kidney beans during the Dragon Boat Festival is suspected of health care and longevity. As the saying goes, eating eggplant will make you tremble, but eating beans will make you old. Hakka people in Miaoli also eat eggplant, long beans, peaches and plums during the Dragon Boat Festival. But the symbolic meaning of these foods is different from that of southerners. Eating plums represents the reproduction of future generations. Some people think that suspicion can resist heatstroke. Eating long beans can avoid being bitten by snakes (because long beans are shaped like snakes). Eating eggplant can resist mosquito bites (eggplant is called "hanging vegetables" in Hakka dialect, while biting "local pronunciation is ㄉㄠ", which is homophonic).
Dragon boat festival health principle
Chinese herbal medicine avoids toxic and pathogenic factors.
I have to talk about wormwood during the Dragon Boat Festival. It is a medicinal plant with bitter taste, mild nature and non-toxicity, and has the functions of warming and nourishing qi and blood, expelling cold and removing dampness, and fragrant and avoiding filth. It is said that there is a folk custom of "hanging Ai people, wearing Ai Hu, drinking Ai wine, eating Ai ointment and smoking Ai leaves". Some people also hang wormwood in halls, bedside and other places. During the Dragon Boat Festival, the air is moist and the leaves of Artemisia argyi are fresh and fragrant, which can remove toxic gases, remove filth, purify the air, keep the room clean and sanitary, and play a role in disinfection and disease prevention. There is a folk saying: wormwood can cure all diseases and invite blessings. Hanging on the door can drive away all kinds of poisons and make people healthy. Therefore, the ancients said that "Ai" can "ward off evil spirits". Up to now, there is a saying that "the family has Ai for three years, and doctors don't have to come".
In addition, the traditional Chinese medicines commonly used in the Dragon Boat Festival include Acorus calamus, Artemisia annua, citronella and pomelo leaves. After decoction, you can make tea or soak in wine, which has good health care function and can prevent diseases.
Diet strengthens the body and prevents diseases.
In ancient times, there was the custom of drinking realgar wine on Dragon Boat Festival. The medicinal properties of realgar have long been recorded in Materia Medica. Realgar is pungent and warm, and has the effects of killing insects, eliminating dampness and killing insects. Because the hot season comes after the Dragon Boat Festival, all kinds of germs breed with the temperature rising. At this time, it is the most timely to use realgar to kill insects, detoxify and prevent diseases.
Every year on the Dragon Boat Festival, people have the custom of eating zongzi. Legend has it that it originated from commemorating the patriotic poet Qu Yuan's martyrdom in the Miluo River on the fifth day of May to express his grief for this patriotic poet. Over time, China people have formed the custom of eating zongzi on the fifth day of May. In the north, Jiangmi jujube dumplings are mainly sweet and cold. In the south, it can be divided into two categories: Soviet-style jiaozi includes jiaozi with plain stuffing such as glutinous rice, red beans and bean paste, and jiaozi with meat stuffing such as fresh meat and ham; Cantonese dumplings are mostly meat dumplings, such as barbecued egg yolk, lard bean paste, fresh meat egg yolk dumplings and so on.
Although the flavor, characteristics and practices of Zongzi in northern and southern China are different, the main materials are glutinous rice and Zongzi leaves. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that glutinous rice is a good food and has a good therapeutic effect. According to the analysis of medicinal properties in the Classic of Materia Medica, glutinous rice is sweet in taste and flat in nature, and has the functions of invigorating qi and spleen, stimulating appetite and promoting digestion. The ingredients of zongzi also have a good health care function. Such as jujube, red beans, mung beans and so on. It has the effects of nourishing blood, calming nerves, inducing diuresis and detoxifying, while ham, duck egg yolk and fresh meat are all nutritious foods.
What's more worth mentioning is that the leaves used to wrap zongzi are more exquisite. Reed leaves are mostly used in the north, and bamboo leaves or lotus leaves are mostly used in the south. These leaves have good medicinal functions. For example, reed leaves can clear away heat and promote fluid production, relieve annoyance and quench thirst; Bamboo leaves can clear away heat, relieve annoyance, induce diuresis and detoxify; Lotus leaf can clear away heat, induce diuresis and regulate stomach.
Just after the Dragon Boat Festival and the long summer, eating zongzi can be balanced and light, which is really a wonderful recipe for timely food supplement and diet therapy. Of course, you should be temperate when eating, and diabetics, the elderly and children should not eat more.
Exercise regulates qi and blood.
Dragon Boat Festival is the most sunny time of the year, and the weather is quite dull. If the work pressure is high, the human body's physiological qi and blood are not running smoothly, and it is easy to be agitated and depressed, palpitations and chest tightness. Emotional changes will affect the function of zang-fu organs, and also lead to mental diseases, such as happiness and sadness, anger hurting the liver, sadness and spleen. Health preservation in summer should make the spleen, stomach, heart and lungs unobstructed. Therefore, in addition to drugs, diet and peace of mind, we should also strengthen exercise at the same time. The smooth operation of qi and blood in the whole body can enhance the cardiopulmonary function, regulate the metabolism of the spleen and stomach, regulate the circulation of qi and blood, and the melancholy mood will also melt away.
The origin of hanging wormwood on Dragon Boat Festival
Hanging wormwood on the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the slaughter of the old surname by the ancient Huang Chao army. People think that hanging wormwood on the door can avoid this risk, so this custom has been passed down. According to records, wormwood can be fragrant, clear-headed, alert and alert, enhance memory, prevent colds, and activate meridians. At the same time, you can also burn moxa sticks to treat diseases. This is called moxibustion, which is an important part of Chinese medicine.
Wormwood represents a hundred blessings and is a kind of herbal medicine that can cure diseases. Inserting it at the door can make you healthy. In ancient China, it has always been a medicinal plant. Moxibustion in acupuncture uses wormwood as the main component and burns it on acupoints to treat diseases. The legend that wormwood can exorcise evil spirits has been circulating for a long time, mainly because it has the function of medicine. For example, Zonggu's Chronicle of Jingchu records: "When chickens don't crow, those who pick wormwood look like people, take it and collect it with moxibustion, which is very effective." On this day, Ai Cai will become a human figure and hang it on the door to release poison gas. "Most people also have the custom of planting wormwood in front of and behind their houses for good luck.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, every household has the custom of hanging wormwood. People make wormwood into human form and call it "Ai Ren". They hung mugwort leaves in the air and cut them into tiger shapes. Women compete to wear them to ward off evil spirits. Therefore, in ancient times, some people also called the Dragon Boat Festival a healthy festival in ancient China. As the Chronicle of Jingchu's Age says, "On May 5th, Ai Cai missed people, and there was a green spirit hanging on the door".