1, dumplings: Dragon Boat Festival food dumplings is a traditional custom in China, dumplings have many shapes, different varieties, there are generally triangular, quadrangular, pointed triangular, square, long and other shapes. Because of the different flavors around China, there are mainly sweet, salty two kinds.

2, xionghuang wine: Dragon Boat Festival drinking xionghuang wine custom, once upon a time in the Yangtze River Basin region is extremely prevalent. Ground into powdered andrographis soaked white or yellow wine. Xionghuang can be used as an antidote, insecticide. So the ancient people thought that the male yellow can restrain snakes, scorpions and other insects, "good to kill a hundred poisons, dispel a hundred evils, the system of parasites, people wear it, into the mountains and forests and tigers and wolves, into the rivers and water and a hundred poisons to avoid".

3, five yellow: Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other areas of the Dragon Boat Festival to eat "five yellow" custom. Five yellow, refers to yellow fish, cucumber, eel, duck egg yolk, andrographis (andrographis is toxic, are drinking ordinary yellow wine instead of andrographis). There are also other sayings, salted duck eggs can be replaced with soybeans. Lunar May, Jiangnan people called five yellow month.

4, cake: Dragon Boat Festival is a grand festival of the Korean people in Yanbian, Jilin Province. The most representative food on this day is the fragrant cake. The cake, is the wormwood and glutinous rice, placed in a large wooden groove chiseled in a single tree, with a long-handled wooden whack made of rice cakes. This food is very ethnic, but also can add to the atmosphere of the festival.

5, fried heap: Fujian Jinjiang area, Dragon Boat Festival, every family will eat "fried heap", that is, with flour, rice flour or sweet potato flour and other ingredients into a thick paste fried. Legend has it that in ancient times, the area of southern Fujian is the rainy season before the Dragon Boat Festival, the rain continues, Dragon Boat Festival ate "fried pile" after the rain will stop, people say that the sky to make up for the good.

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