Dragon Boat Festival snacks other than rice dumplings

Cake

The Dragon Boat Festival is a grand festival for the Korean people in Yanbian, Jilin Province. The most representative food on this day is the fragrant cake. Da Gao is a rice cake made by placing mugwort and glutinous rice in a large wooden trough carved from a single log and using a long-handled wooden hammer. This kind of food is very ethnic and can add to the festive atmosphere.

First soak the rice in water for a period of time, then take it out and steam it in a pot. Put the steamed rice into a wooden or stone trough and beat it repeatedly with a wooden pole. Usually, two people stand face to face by the trough and beat each other alternately, or one person beats and the other turns the cake dough underneath to beat it evenly. Afterwards, a sweet, delicate and chewy cake was completed.

Ai Momo

In many places during the Dragon Boat Festival, rice flour or flour is fermented and steamed together with mugwort. Moxa contains a variety of volatile oils, which have an aromatic smell, can repel insects and sterilize, and have inhibitory effects on a variety of bacteria and certain skin fungi. Therefore, moxa is indispensable in ancient times to eliminate diseases and repel plague during the Dragon Boat Festival, whether eaten or used. .

Tea Eggs

In the Nanchang area of ??Jiangxi Province, boiled tea eggs and salted eggs are eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival. Eggs include chicken eggs, duck eggs, and goose eggs. The eggshells are painted red, packed in colorful mesh bags, and hung around the child's neck, which means to wish the child good luck and safety.

Jian Dui

During the Dragon Boat Festival, every household in Jinjiang, Fujian Province also eats "Jian Dui", which is fried into a thick paste with flour, rice flour or sweet potato flour and other ingredients. become. Why do we eat "Jiandui" during the Dragon Boat Festival? There is also a legend about this custom. 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 "mend the sky." After eating "Jiandui" on the Dragon Boat Festival, the rain stopped, and people said that the sky had been mended. , and the custom of eating fried dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival came from this.

Eel

The Dragon Boat Festival is not only a time to eat rice dumplings, but also the most tender and nutritious time of the year when eel meat is the most tender and nutritious. Therefore, there is a saying of "Dragon Boat Festival eel versus ginseng" Common proverb. Monopterus eel has always been a popular freshwater aquatic product due to its soft texture and no thorns. It is a good nutritional supplement especially for children and the elderly. Monopterus eel is warm in nature and sweet in taste. It enters the liver, spleen and kidney meridians and has the effects of tonifying qi, nourishing blood and strengthening the spleen, warming yang and benefiting the spleen, strengthening essence and stopping bleeding, nourishing the liver and kidneys, dispelling wind and unblocking collaterals.

Noodle Fan

Many places steam "noodle fans" on the Dragon Boat Festival. The noodle fan is made of steamed dough and is fan-shaped with 5 layers. Sprinkle each layer with finely ground cooked pepper, knead the surface into various patterns, and dye it with color, which is very beautiful. This food custom is said to have evolved from the custom of holding, selling, and giving fans during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Shaozi Noodles

Shaanxi people must eat Shaozi Noodles on the Dragon Boat Festival. Shaanxi whistle noodles have a long history, the most famous of which is Qishan whistle noodles. Qishan Saozi Noodles are famous for being thin, stringy, light, fried, thin, chewy, sour, spicy and fragrant.

Garlic Eggs

Eating garlic eggs is a custom during the Dragon Boat Festival in Henan, Zhejiang and other places. Every year on the Dragon Boat Festival, the housewives get up very early and cook the garlic that has been prepared in advance. Boil it with eggs for breakfast for the whole family. In some places, a few pieces of moxa leaves are added when cooking garlic and eggs. It is said that eating garlic, eggs, and fried steamed buns for breakfast during the Dragon Boat Festival can avoid the "five poisons" and is good for your health.

Pizza

During the Dragon Boat Festival, every family still has the custom of eating pizza. The pancakes are made from refined white flour into a paste, baked in a large, flat iron frying pan into sheets shaped like a full moon, and then filled with mung bean sprouts, leeks, shredded pork, shredded eggs, shiitake mushrooms, etc., and rolled into rounds. It is in the shape of a tube and you can taste a variety of flavors in one bite.

Leaf dumplings

Leaf dumplings are a festival food of Yulin people, especially during the Dragon Boat Festival and Double Ninth Festival. It is an indispensable delicacy. There are many legends about leaf dumplings. One thing that is certain is that it has a long history. Later, leaf cake gradually evolved into a popular local traditional snack in Yulin. Leaf dumplings are made from glutinous rice and glutinous stems ground into powder. They are steamed foods. Usually a single dumpling is about a palm long and divided into sweet and salty fillings. You can add or leave the fillings as you like. Generally The fillings for sweetness are made according to everyone's appetite. To make leaf dumplings, banana leaves, zongzi leaves, bamboo leaves and other fragrant leaves are usually used to wrap the steamed dumplings with a light green color. The characteristic of leaf cake is that it is bright in color, soft in taste, fragrant and glutinous, and does not stick to the teeth.