1, eat tea eggs. Nanchang area in Jiangxi Province, the Dragon Boat Festival to cook tea eggs and salt water eggs to eat. There are eggs, duck eggs and goose eggs. Egg shells painted red, with colorful mesh bags, hanging around the neck of small children, meaning that the blessing of the child in the event of an accident, safe and sound. Teach you how to make tea eggs: eggs, tea, star anise, cinnamon, peppercorns, cloves, grass nuts, cumin, allspice, salt. Eggs clean, cool water into the pot, low heat to boil and then cook for 4 minutes off the heat and simmer for 2 minutes. Tea leaves first rinse into boiling water, let stand for 5 seconds, drain off the water do not, cleaned tea leaves wrapped in gauze. Prepare all the spices and fill the spice box. Remove hard-boiled eggs, pour off boiled water and don't want it, tap out cracks with a stainless steel spoon and put them back into the pot, along with the tea bags and spice box. Add a moderate amount of salt, add boiling water until completely missed the eggs, high heat boil and then turn to low heat to cook for about 30 minutes, turn off the fire to soak for more than 10 hours, the longer the more flavorful.

2, eat five poisonous cakes. Before and after the Dragon Boat Festival, many food stores will sell "five poisonous cakes", that is, five kinds of poisonous insects decorated with patterns of cakes. In fact, the five poison cake is a rose cake, but its outer layer of puff pastry children printed with scorpions, toads, spiders, centipedes, snakes, the "five poisons" in the image of it. Five poisons cake is the northern Dragon Boat Festival unique seasonal food, early summer is the time of poisonous growth of active, so the ancients will eat "five poisons cake" wishing to eliminate the disease strong body, pray for health. As early as in the Qing Dynasty period of the "Yanjing times - Danyang" has recorded: "every session of the Danyang before, the House of the Zhu Men are to rice dumplings to feed syrup, and vice to cherries, mulberries, water chestnuts, peaches, apricots, and the five poisons cake, rose cake, and other things." There are written records available . Five poisons cake has two kinds: one is with jujube mold knock out, on the hanging furnace baked, out of the pulp on the color, the surface and then smeared with a layer of oil and sugar, snacks on the convex and concave pattern of the five poisons cake, a kind of fluffy puff pastry, and then covered with bright red "five poisons," the image of the seal of the five poisonous cakes. Five poison cake has apricot paste, date paste, green bean paste, Taiwan marinated meat, black hemp incense paste five fillings, is now a Beijing specialty.