First, why do you want to eat boiled eggs on March 3?
In fact, there is a legend about eating ground vegetables and boiling eggs on March 3. This legend says that during the Three Kingdoms period, the famous doctor Hua Tuo collected a handful of ground vegetables for an old man with a headache and asked him to take juice and boil eggs.
The old man took three eggs and recovered from the disease.
After the news spread, people boiled eggs with vegetables one after another, and the craze spread throughout urban and rural areas.
Because the date when Hua Tuo treated the elderly was March 3, eating ground vegetables and boiling eggs on March 3 gradually became popular.
In addition, March 3rd is also a day for Han people to greet their ancestors' souls. They mourn their ancestors by eating eggs, hoping to get some aura.
On the third day of March, people will wash the collected vegetables, put them in a pot, add appropriate amount of water, add cinnamon, anise, spiced powder, soy sauce and other condiments, boil them together with the eggs, and then scoop them up after cooking them. This is not only delicious food, but also good for health and treatment.
Second, the benefits of eating vegetables and boiled eggs
Although the ground vegetables are wild vegetables, they are rich in nutrition, which contains a lot of carotene, vitamin B, calcium and iron. Coupled with the nutrition of eggs, eating boiled eggs with ground vegetables can be said to be a treasure for health preservation and can also treat dizziness.
Boiled eggs with ground vegetables have been popular since ancient times. Using ground vegetables and eggs to decoct and let the juice penetrate into the eggs can make the eggs taste more delicious, which is loved by everyone and has good medicinal value. It has good therapeutic effects on diuresis, heat dissipation, vasoconstriction and hemostasis.
But remember, it is not suitable for pregnant women to eat boiled eggs with ground vegetables. The alcohol extracted from ground vegetables has the same effect of uterine contraction as oxytocin, so it is easy for pregnant women to cause abortion when they eat boiled eggs with ground vegetables.
That's all about cooking eggs on March 3 rd. If you like to eat such delicious food, you might as well cook it yourself at home.