The ten must-eat delicacies during the Dragon Boat Festival include rice dumplings, eggs, herbal tea, oil cakes, Wujia wine, dates glutinous rice, saozi noodles, twists, Wuhuang, and calamus wine.

1. Zongzi

Dragon Boat Festival commemorates the poet Qu Yuan’s habit of eating Zongzi. Nowadays, there are many types of Zongzi with very different tastes, including fresh meat Zongzi, egg yolk Zongzi, and candied dates. Rice dumplings, original flavor, etc. 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. 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, you should Then 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. 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. Oil cakes

In addition to eating rice dumplings on the Dragon Boat Festival, you also eat oil cakes. 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. 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 a strange aroma. Folks believe that drinking Wujia wine can ward off evil spirits.

6. Glutinous rice with dates and dates

On Dragon Boat Festival, the Naxi people eat glutinous rice with dates and dates. The Naxi people, who mainly live in Yunnan, are accustomed to eating glutinous rice with dates and dates during the Dragon Boat Festival.

7. Shaozi 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. Twist twists

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 (mahua) to stick your mouth is also to wish our life a sweet and beautiful life.

9. Five yellows

The traditional Dragon Boat Festival delicacy in Nanjing is "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. 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.