Specialty foods of Mangdae Festival are as follows
1, Juntabe
Ningbo people still have the tradition of eating Juntabe on Mangdae Festival, Juntabe is a kind of seasonal vegetable which is listed before and after the Mangdae Festival, and it is said that you will not have prickly heat in the summer after you have eaten it, and your skin will be smooth and smooth just like Juntabe. It is said that if you eat it, you will not get heat rash in summer and your skin will be as smooth as junta.
Junta vegetable is a very good for human health, has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxification, very suitable for eating in the mango festival, and because it is also a kind of vegetable that can protect the skin, so some girls are very fond of junta vegetable.
2, plum
In the south, every year in May and June is the plum ripe season, the Three Kingdoms have "plum boiled wine heroes" allusion. Plum contains a variety of natural high-quality organic acids and rich minerals, can enhance the human body's immunity, many people are very like to eat plum. One thing to note is that fresh plums are acidic and not easy to eat, so they need to go through some processing before they can be eaten.
3, eggs
Mangkasi festival eating eggs, not only can withstand the "Resistance and Resistance" test, but also bring life to a successful. The custom of eating eggs during the Mangdao festival can prevent the common summer day lack of appetite, tiredness and limb weakness, wasting and other symptoms of summer. Eggs are a common food in our life, with the effect of replenishing qi and blood, one thing to note is that the yolk in the egg is relatively high in calories, so you can't eat too much.
4, tea
In order to meet the mango festival, China's Jiangxi area there is a mango festival drinking tea custom, it is said that drinking tea in the mango, can ensure that the whole summer will not be sleepy. Drinking some tea properly will indeed keep yourself awake, but to ensure that a whole summer will not be sleepy is a little difficult. So drinking tea at the time of mangosteen represents nothing more than a good wish of the people.
Manchu Festival Folklore
1. Cooking Plum
Manchu before and after the rainy season around the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, when the yellow plums are ripe, because of the yellow plums are acidic and astringent, inconvenient to the direct entrance, need to be processed before eating, so many people in this region. Many farmers in this area have the custom of cooking plums for consumption.
2. preserved flowers will
Some areas of Jiangnan in the mango day there is a "preserved flowers will" custom. Local people believe that, after the mango is summer, the flowers withered, the flower god abdicated, it is necessary to set up a variety of gifts for the flower god farewell. Some people also use silk to hang flower branches to show their farewell.
Cao Xueqin in the "Dream of the Red Chamber" twenty-seventh wrote Mango Festival said: "this day, the girls, or with petals and willow branches woven into a sedan chair horse, or with damask and brocade gauze folded into a thousand banners, are tied with colored thread. Every tree, every flower, all tied these things. The garden was full of embroidered ribbons and fluttering flowers." "dry banner banner block" in "dry"
that is, the shield; banner, banner, banner, block are ancient flags, banner is the top of the flagpole decorated with yak tail flag, banner and banner is similar to the banner, but the difference is that it has a colorful folding feather decorations, the block of the shape of the umbrella. This can be seen in the lively scene of the big families for the flower god of the Mangyong Festival.
3. An Miao
An Miao is some areas of southern Anhui agricultural customary activities, began in the early Ming Dynasty. Every year, after planting rice, in order to pray for a good harvest in the fall, all over the Anmiao ritual activities. Families with new wheat flour evaporation package, knead the surface into the shape of grains and six animals, fruits and vegetables, and then dyed with vegetable juice color, as a sacrificial offering, praying for a bumper crop, the villagers peace.