Boiled Eggs with Shepherd's Purse is the Shangsi Festival.

Boiled eggs with water chestnuts, grabbing flower cannons, throwing embroidered balls, eating five-color glutinous rice, singing, playing drums, touching colorful eggs, and eating umi rice are the traditional customs of the festival.

The third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, also known as "Shangsi Festival", is a traditional festival of the Chinese people, of which the Han, Zhuang, Miao and Yao are typical. In addition to the important traditional habits, March 3 there is a widely spread custom, called "March 3 chestnut boiled eggs", chestnut is also commonly known as the ground vegetables.

The rural colloquialism of eating chestnuts on March 3 is called: "Boiled eggs with ground vegetables, eat the stones are trampled," meaning that after eating eggs boiled with chestnuts on March 3, the body will become stronger and stronger, strong enough to trample the stones.

The origin of March 3: Fuxi and Regulus

The origin of March 3 can be traced back to the time of Fuxi. Fuxi and his sister Nuwa rolled the earth to create people and multiply their offspring. The eastern part of Henan Province honors Fuxi as the "Ancestor of Man", and in Huaiyang, Henan Province (where Fuxi built his capital), people also built the ancient temple of Taihao Mausoleum. From February 2 to March 3 of the lunar calendar for the Tai Hao mausoleum temple fair, men and women of faith, the south and north of the ship, are gathered in the mausoleum area, pilgrimage to worship the human ancestor.

Legendary March 3 or the birth of the Yellow Emperor, China since ancient times, "February 2, the dragon carries the head; March 3, born Xuanyuan," said. Xuanyuan Huangdi is honored as the Chinese humanities ancestor, is the children of China's *** with the ancestors. Later generations to commemorate the merits of the Yellow Emperor, every year on the third day of March in the hometown of the Yellow Emperor to hold a variety of ancestor worship activities.