One, zongzi
Zongzi, that is, "zongzong_", commonly known as zongzi, the main material is glutinous rice, fillings, with Ruo leaves (or _ leaves) wrapped and become, the shape of a variety of, have a sharp angle, four-horn, and so on. Zongzi from a long time ago, initially used to be a tribute to ancestral gods. After the introduction of the north, with millet (northern production of millet) to do zongzi, said "corner of millet". Due to the different dietary habits of different places, dumplings formed a north-south flavor; from the taste points, dumplings have salty dumplings and sweet dumplings two categories. Duanwu food dumplings custom, for thousands of years in China, has become the Chinese nation's most influential, the most extensive coverage of one of the folk dietary practices, and spread to North Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian countries.
Because of the different dietary habits around the world, dumplings formed a north-south flavor, which is more famous dumplings: Beijing dumplings northern dumplings on behalf of the varieties of Beijing dumplings head is larger, for the diagonal quadrangular or triangular. Most of the market supply is glutinous rice dumplings. In the countryside, it is still customary to eat rhubarb rice dumplings. Sticky and fragrant, unique flavor, Beijing dumplings are mostly filled with red dates, bean paste, and a few are also filled with dried fruit.
The representative varieties of southern rice dumplings are Guangdong rice dumplings, Guangdong rice dumplings in the shape of a pyramid, bar and triangular cone. Varieties of salted meat dumplings, alkaline water dumplings, bean paste dumplings, etc., of which salted meat dumplings are the most popular. Salted meat dumplings are mainly made of glutinous rice, pork and mung beans, and some of them are filled with salted egg yolks, mushrooms, shrimp, scallops, chestnuts, peanuts, etc. The taste is salty, fresh and fragrant, and the flavor is even better. From the geographical points, Guangdong rice dumplings, including Zhaoqing steamed rice dumplings, Taishan rice dumplings, Dongguan Road _ rice dumplings, Zhongshan Ludou rice dumplings, Chaoshan double-cooked rice dumplings ball, Hakka gray water rice dumplings, Zhanjiang Clam Piper rice dumplings.
Jiangnan's dumplings have the most prestigious reputation, and the practice is also complex, especially the filling, varied. And a major difference between the northern zongzi is that the Jiangnan zongzi glutinous rice raw materials, more pre-steamed with rice straw ash soup, and meat steamed, fragrant. Huzhou rice dumplings are characterized by a long, pillow-like shape, so there is a "pillow rice dumplings," the name: and because of its long, thin, concave in the middle, the two ends of the warped, quite a line of beauty, small and elegant, so some people jokingly referred to as the "beauty rice dumplings". Huzhou dumplings are basically handmade, very sophisticated; with a variety of materials, such as soy sauce, fresh meat, bean paste, egg yolks and so on. Nowadays, Huzhou famous zongzi have Zhenyuan Tong, Zhu Boss and so on.
Northern rice dumplings, mostly made of glutinous rice, dipped in white or brown sugar to eat.
Two, salted duck eggs
Duanwu Festival to eat salted duck eggs is a major custom, because after the Dragon Boat Festival heralds the arrival of the hot summer, plant and animal life activities into the stage of exuberance, coupled with the climate and humidity, the pests and bacteria are active, prone to cause many diseases. Eating salted duck eggs at the Dragon Boat Festival can dispel toxins and help maintain good health.
According to relevant information, salted duck eggs are salty and slightly cold, can nourish yin, clear the lungs, can cure summer diaphragmatic fever, cough, sore throat, toothache, dysentery and other diseases. Until modern times, people to enrich the taste, only began to cook up fresh eggs and tea eggs.
Other eggs:
1, tea eggs
Nanchang area in Jiangxi, the Dragon Boat Festival to cook tea eggs and salt water eggs to eat. There are eggs, duck eggs and goose eggs. The eggshells are painted red and packed in colorful mesh bags and hung around the necks of small children, meaning that the children are blessed with good fortune and peace.
2, salt eggs
It is said that in the pot of boiled rice dumplings at the same time cooking some eggs, duck eggs, goose eggs, eat sweet rice dumplings dipped in sugar, and then eat eggs dipped in salt, "pressure top", so that you can be a summer does not give birth to sores; rice dumplings pot of boiled duck eggs, goose eggs placed in the noonday sunshine for a while and then eat, you can eat the whole summer does not have a headache. The headache.
Three, yellow wine
"qingjiazhu" records: "research andrographis end, crumbs of bushy roots, and wine to drink, so-called andrographis wine." That is to say, andrographis is made of white wine, andrographis blended. Why is such a simple drink so famous? This is probably related to the story of the White Maiden and Xu Xian, the White Maiden is in the Dragon Boat Festival on this day to drink Xionghuang wine, showing the original shape of the snake. Therefore, the folk probably believe that snakes, scorpions, centipedes and other venomous insects can be cracked by xionghuang wine, and drinking xionghuang wine at the Dragon Boat Festival can drive away evil spirits and detoxify the poison.
However, modern people have discovered that Xionghuang wine contains arsenic, a highly toxic substance, so basically do not drink Xionghuang wine. However, because of the andrographis has antibacterial, detoxification, dampness effect, so to the Dragon Boat Festival this day, there will be people will be based on the andrographis, adding Angelica dahurica, lavender and other spices made into incense bags, there are also made into the andrographis smoked strips, hope to be used to ward off the evil spirits and to prevent insects and snakes from harming.