Every place has its own customs and local specialties. For example, some places like to eat eggs in Tomb-Sweeping Day, but some rural areas are used to eating shepherd's purse and boiled eggs.

Boiling eggs with shepherd's purse is actually the same as tea eggs. In fact, it is to integrate the flavor of shepherd's purse into eggs and the nutrition of shepherd's purse into eggs, which makes eggs more delicious and nutritious.

Shepherd's shepherd's purse is cooler and tastes a little sweet. Boiling shepherd's purse with water will help to stop bleeding and improve eyesight, and it is suitable for people with excessive internal heat, constipation, edema and menorrhagia. Then shepherd's purse also has the effects of lowering blood pressure, resisting bacteria and diminishing inflammation. Therefore, if shepherd's purse is used to cook eggs, its nutritional value will be very high.

In the past, it was said that it was necessary to eat boiled eggs with shepherd's purse on the third day of the third day. This is because there was a legend in ancient times that boiled eggs with shepherd's purse could cure headaches, so in the Jiangnan generation until now, they would eat boiled eggs with shepherd's purse on the third day of March. It is a good omen and can treat one's own illness. Many people are willing to believe this basis.

There are many ways to eat shepherd's purse. Of course, jiaozi is probably a common way in northern China, but around Tomb-Sweeping Day, people in rural areas like the south of the Yangtze River would cook eggs with shepherd's purse. The cooked eggs are delicious, and people can eat them to cool blood and stop bleeding, tonify the spleen, clear heat and promote diuresis. Moreover, shepherd's purse also contains shepherd's purse acid, which is an effective hemostatic ingredient.