What is a happy egg?
The word "chicken" is homonym for wedding or having children. According to the traditional culture of ancient Han nationality, we cooked the eggs and dyed them red or rose red with red pigment. After the wedding, we should use two red eggs as gifts for wedding guests. It means that the new couple is thriving, adding children and grandchildren.
After a new baby is born, it will be distributed to relatives and neighbors. The distribution scope is often extremely wide, and ordinary friends and neighbors will also send it. Anyone who is assigned to a happy egg will know without asking that the family who is assigned to a happy egg has added descendants, so they will go to congratulate them one after another.
According to the market demand and the fact that most contemporary families have small pots and pans, and the conditions for making happy eggs are limited, some merchants specially process and make some eggshell-stripped eggs, and put a plastic food bag with red happy characters on the outside by vacuum packaging, which can be supplied in supermarkets on time.
Can pregnant women eat happy eggs?
Pregnant women can eat happy eggs, but never eat more. Because the mass production of traditional wedding eggs has gradually replaced the home manual printing and dyeing, this kind of wedding eggs often have a shelf life of more than one year, which has certain security risks. Therefore, it is recommended that pregnant women eat fresh eggs.
The benefits of eating happy eggs
It has been recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica: "Happy egg has the function of treating headache, migraine, head madness and limb madness." .
Folk believe that happy eggs have the effect of invigorating qi, which can make the face rosy, increase appetite, strengthen the body and delay aging. This is because during the incubation period, the nutrition of eggs has not been destroyed, but has been enhanced after incubation. In addition, it contains some ingredients similar to "human placenta", containing a lot of calcium, phosphorus and heme iron, and its unique vitamin E and taurine can improve gastrointestinal function, stimulate appetite and resist aging.