It is reported that the Dragon Boat Festival "auspicious" time in the "noon", Nanjing, at least more than 80% of the family at this time to get together *** into the lunch, known as the "Wu", eat! "five red" to prevent poison and ward off evil spirits.
Legend, a long time ago, the Jade Emperor announced that the poison in the sky to wait for the first sound of spring thunder before you can go to the mortal world, so people call that time for hibernation. But some of the poisonous creatures were afraid of the cold, so they made a pact to go together to do harm to the earth when the weather warmed up at the Dragon Boat Festival.
The five poisonous creatures are snakes, spiders, scorpions, centipedes and geckos. They came to the earth during the Dragon Boat Festival, and when they arrived at the door of a house, they heard the lady of the house say, "Eat, it's deep-fried five poisons". The five poisons were shocked, so they went down to the window to see, only to see five pots on the table with red five dishes. The hostess ate and said, "These five poisonous dishes are really delicious. "Five red dishes" look in the eyes of the five poisons into their blood, the five poisons scared out of their wits, and hurriedly fled from the family, from never dare to go. Afterwards, people are in the Dragon Boat Festival this day to eat five kinds of red-colored dishes to scare off those poisonous animals, hoping that they do not enter their own homes.
The "five red vegetables" are not only the festival dishes of the Dragon Boat Festival, but also the seasonal delicacies of the early summer season. Among them, amaranth, containing a large number of red pigment, eat more can clear heat to fire health; eel, high nutritional value, medicinal value is also very high, rich in vitamin A, eat more can be clear eyes to fire; river shrimp, can strengthen the kidney yang, to toxin; duck, can be cleared of heat, dampness and toxicity; duck eggs, taste sweet, cool, nourishing yin, clearing the lungs, rich muscle, skin and other effects.
"Five Red Vegetables" is not only a simple meal, it reflects the traditional concepts and good wishes of the Chinese people: reunion and health.