1, eat zongzi

"Dragon Boat Festival eat zongzi" originated in 340 BC. Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet, on May 5, he jumped into the river. In order to prevent fish and shrimp from eating Qu Yuan's body in the river, people put rice and eggs into bamboo buckets. Some people also poured andrographis wine into the river in order to drug the dragon water* so that Dr. Qu Yuan could be saved from harm. Since then, in order to commemorate him, every year on May 5, people will go to the river to throw zongzi, rowing dragon boat. In honor of the great patriotic poet.

2, eat eggs

Duanwu Festival to eat eggs with the origin of the same dumplings, eggs are also an important food Dragon Boat Festival, the morning children are not out of the nest, adults will be sent to the child's mouth eggs. Folklore is rumored to eat eggs heart. Because the egg shape such as the heart, folk generally believe that eating eggs can make the spirit of the heart without loss. Dragon Boat Festival eating eggs on the one hand is to figure auspicious, pray for a year without illness, on the other hand is to improve life. Boiled eggs with mugwort leaves will not only have the special flavor of mugwort leaves, but also get rid of bad luck and diseases.

3, eat oil cake

Duanwu Festival to eat oil cake, is a traditional custom in Lantian County, Shaanxi Province, and hanging mugwort, dumplings are equally important preoccupations. In addition to eating zongzi on the day of Dragon Boat Festival, you have to eat oil cake. The oil cake should be made of hot oil flour, wrapped with sugar, yellow cinnamon, rose, walnut kernel and lard to make the filling, and then deep-fried in a frying pan. The skin is fluffy, the filling is sweet, and the appearance is beautiful.

4, drink five plus wine

"The fifth of May pick five plus, brew five plus wine" is a folk custom. Wuga is five plus skin, gas flavor bitter, five plus bark has a strange fragrance, can be nourishing **strong muscles and bones. Folk believe that drinking five plus wine, you can take refuge from evil. The medicinal use of the five plus bark is mainly for the treatment of hernia, abdominal pain, men **, urine residual leaching, women's waist and spine pain, two feet pain. Located in humid areas, it is especially suitable for drinking Wuga wine on the Dragon Boat Festival.

5, eat sesame flowers

The crispy and crunchy sesame flowers are also essential food for the Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon Boat Festival itself is to commemorate our great patriotic poet Qu Yuan, in this ** can not say some unlucky words, so eat sesame candy (twist) to stick to the mouth, but also in order to wish us a sweet and beautiful life.

6, eat "five red", "five yellow"

Nanjing traditional meaning of the Dragon Boat Festival food is "five yellow", that is, eel, yellow fish, duck eggs, cucumber, Xionghuang wine. With the change of history, social development, "five yellow" content gradually evolved into the current "five red", that is, "roast duck, amaranth, duck eggs, lobster, xionghuang wine. It is said that the Dragon Boat Festival ate these "five red", "five yellow", the whole summer can avoid the evil summer.

7, drink calamus wine

Drinking calamus wine, is the traditional custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. The Southern Song Dynasty scholar Chen Kexiang, once wrote a poem "bottle pan calamus, year after year at the beginning of May". Calamus wine is a kind of medicinal wine made from calamus and white or yellow wine. Drinking calamus wine on the Dragon Boat Festival is to ward off evil spirits and avoid poison, and it can be taken for a long time to get rid of diseases and strengthen the body.

8, eat fried heap

Jinjiang, Fujian area, the Dragon Boat Festival, every family will eat "fried heap", that is, with flour, rice flour or sweet potato flour and other ingredients into a thick paste fried. Legend has it that in ancient times in southern Fujian area before the Dragon Boat Festival is the rainy season, rainy and cloudy, folk say that the sky is wearing a hole, to "make up for the sky". After the Dragon Boat Festival, the rain stops after eating the "fried pile", and people say that the sky is mended. This food custom is derived from this.

9, eat cake

Duanwu Festival is a grand festival of the Korean people in Yanbian, Jilin Province. This *** representative of the food is fragrant cake. Cake, is the wormwood and glutinous rice, placed in a single wood chiseled into a large wooden groove, with a long-handled wooden whip made of rice cakes. This food is very ethnic, but also add to the atmosphere of the festival.

10, eat ai bun

Many places over the Dragon Boat Festival also use rice flour or flour fermentation and artemisia with steamed buns. Ai contains a variety of volatile oils, has an aromatic odor, can be insecticidal, on a variety of bacteria and some skin fungi have ** effect, so ancient in the Dragon Boat Festival in addition to the plague, regardless of food or with, Ai are essential.

11, eat peaches, eggplants and beans

Sichuan is said to eat peaches, eggplants and beans at the Dragon Boat Festival, suspect health care, longevity. As the saying goes: eat eggplant eat to will shake, eat beans eat to old old". The Hakka people in the Miaoli area celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival by eating eggplant, long beans, peaches and plums. However, the meaning symbolized by these foods is different from that of the southern people. Eat the son even if it is to take the meaning of its long, eat plums on behalf of the reproduction of children and grandchildren, and some people and think that the suspicion of anti-heatstroke.