What do southerners eat during the Dragon Boat Festival? When it comes to the dietary customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, many people only know about eating rice dumplings. In fact, there are many other delicacies during the Dragon Boat Festival. So what do southerners eat during the Dragon Boat Festival? Let’s take a look! ? 1. Dragon Boat Festival in Fuzhou, Fujian

The family banquet of the festival must be at noon, and there must be rice dumplings, realgar wine, lotus leaf buns, rice noodles and meat, etc. on the feast.

After the family banquet, children wear new clothes, red bellybands, and uniquely shaped and brightly colored sachets such as zongzi and lanterns made of camphor balls woven with various colored silk threads. They also wash calamus soup, and some children even have to put it in their mouths and noses.

A piece of realgar smoked fat is stuck between them, and then the adults take them to the riverside to watch the dragon boat race.

In Jinjiang, Fujian, every household eats "Jian Dui" during the Dragon Boat Festival.

The so-called jiandui is made of flour, rice flour or sweet potato flour and other ingredients into a thick paste, and then fried into a large piece in a pan.

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 had 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.

2. Chongqing Chongqing is known as the "Bayu Land". The so-called "Bayu" refers to snakes. In ancient times, Chongqing people worshiped snakes and worshiped snakes as totems.

In the past, snakes were not edible, but since the 1980s, Chongqing people have chosen to cook snake soup on the Dragon Boat Festival of the year and eat it to protect themselves.

The main reason why people in Chongqing eat snakes is the influence of fertility culture. Snakes are a symbol of totem worship. Women believe that after eating snakes, they will reproduce. Similar to Jiang, the daughter of the Tai family, who stepped on the footprints of a giant and gave birth to a baby.

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Others also believe that after eating a snake, their ancestors will enter the body and be with them.

However, snakes cannot be killed indiscriminately, nor can they be cooked at home. Usually, a pot of snake soup is cooked on the threshing floor and shared by the whole village.

3. Guangxi In southern Guangxi, such as Ningming, Chongzuo, Longzhou and other places, during the Dragon Boat Festival, cool brown rice dumplings are made, called "grey water rice dumplings".

Before making rice dumplings, go to the mountains and cut down some branches and leaves of trees such as the neem tree. When they are half dry in the sun, they are piled on the ground and burned. The ashes are then put into a bamboo container and rinsed with clean water.

Finally, use the filtered brown water to soak the prepared glutinous rice.

After soaking, the glutinous rice will reveal a unique fragrance of plant ash in the original aroma. The rice dumplings will be light yellow or brown after being cooked.

4. Guangdong Guangdong rice dumplings are the representative variety of southern rice dumplings. They are larger in size and unique in shape, like a cone.

There are many varieties, including egg yolk rice dumplings, assorted rice dumplings, roasted duck rice dumplings, etc., which have a unique southern flavor and have long been famous.

Chaozhou's double-pinned rice dumplings are a style of their own. One side is made with salty ingredients and the other is made with sweet ingredients. There are two flavors in one rice dumpling, so it is called "double-pinned rice dumplings".

At noon on the Dragon Boat Festival in Conghua County, people wash their eyes with burning talisman water and then splash it on the road, which is called "send disaster".

During the Dragon Boat Festival in Xinxing County, people from nearby temples advocated the parade of gods and goddesses.

The wizard also uses dharma water and amulets to drive away evil spirits.

During the Dragon Boat Festival in Shicheng County, children fly kites, which is called "flying disaster".

5. Jiangsu On the Dragon Boat Festival, people in Yangzhou enjoy eating "Twelve Reds".

Which? Twelve reds? Braised fish, braised pork, braised chicken, braised old goose, braised cucumber, braised lettuce, braised radish, sword beans, amaranth, salted duck eggs, mustard mustard, braised rice noodles or vermicelli.

?Besides the Twelve Reds, there are many more.

For example, on this day, those who open bathrooms use calamus and mugwort leaves to boil water.

Calamus and mugwort leaves are put in the pool. The water emits a burst of fragrance, which invigorates the spirit and makes the whole body refreshed and fragrant. It is called "cleansing mugwort water".

Some bathrooms with this custom still exist today.

Common people also buy calamus and mugwort leaves and stick them on the door. It is said that they can drive away plague and eliminate filth.

6. Anhui In all parts of Anhui Province, both urban and rural areas eat rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival. Rice dumplings are gifts given by relatives and neighbors.

"Dragon Boat Festival" is also eaten in the Huaining area in western Anhui.

This kind of Dragon Boat Festival cake is made of refined flour and fermented wine, placed on green paulownia leaves or lotus leaves, fermented and then steamed. It has a sweet, fragrant and unique flavor.

In He County, during the festival lunch, called "Shangwu", one has to drink ale and eat meat dishes such as anchovies and dried geese.

At noon, chopsticks are placed in the court to check whether it is noon.

In Dangtu area, people eat rice dumplings and five red vegetables, namely shrimp, eel, salted duck eggs, amaranth, and realgar wine.

In some places, broad beans are fried for children on this day, saying it is "fried insects and ants", so that the children will not be disturbed by insects and mosquitoes.

There is a proverb in the Shucheng area of ??Liu'an in western Anhui: "Eat an apricot during the Dragon Boat Festival and you will not get sick when you are old; eat a peach at the Dragon Boat Festival and you will not have to worry about it when you are old."