1, eat zongzi
Dragon Boat Festival in honor of the poet Qu Yuan has the habit of eating zongzi, nowadays zongzi are very many kinds of flavors are very different, there are fresh meat zongzi, egg yolk zongzi, jujube zongzi, the original flavor and so on. At this point, according to the actual situation to control the intake of rice dumplings, do not be greedy for delicious and hurt the body. At the same time, remember to heat the dumplings before eating, both safe and hygienic, but also to reduce the burden of digestion.
2, eat eggs
Cooking rice dumplings in the pot must be boiled eggs, conditions and then cook some duck eggs, goose eggs, eat sweet rice dumplings dipped in sugar, and then eat eggs dipped in salt "pressure top". It is said to eat May end of the dumplings pot of boiled eggs in the main summer does not have sores; dumplings pot of boiled duck eggs, goose eggs in the sun at noon and then eat, the whole summer does not have a headache.
3, tea, herbal tea
Some areas in the north, like the Dragon Boat Festival to pick tender leaves, wild leaves steamed and dried, made of tea. Guangdong Chaozhou area, people go to the countryside to pick herbs, boiled herbal tea to drink. This is also good for health.
4, eat oil cake
Dragon Boat Festival day in addition to eating dumplings, but also eat oil cake. Oil cake to use and good hot oil noodles, wrapped in sugar, yellow cinnamon, rose, walnuts, lard made of filling, under the frying pan. The skin is fluffy, the filling is sweet, and the appearance is beautiful.
5, drink five plus wine
"May 5 pick five plus, brew five plus wine" is a folk custom. Five plus that is five plus skin, gas flavor bitter, five plus bark has a strange fragrance, can nourish the liver and kidney strong muscles and bones. Folk believe that drinking Wujia wine, you can take refuge from evil spirits. The medicinal use of Wujia bark is mainly for the treatment of hernia, abdominal pain, male impotence, urinary leakage, women's lumbar and spinal pain, two feet pain. Areas located in the humid, especially suitable for the Dragon Boat Festival drink five plus wine.
6, sugar dates sticky rice
Dragon Boat Festival, Naxi to eat sugar dates sticky rice. Glutinous rice can warm the spleen and lungs, make up for the deficiency of cold, and glutinous rice will have glutinous rice, containing a lot of vitamins, a lot of phosphorus, calcium, iron, protein and fat, more will increase the blood in the human blood. So pay special attention, people with diabetes should not eat.
7, eat noodles
Shaanxi people in the Dragon Boat Festival day is sure to eat whistle noodles. Shame noodles are the flavorful snacks of Shaanxi, with dozens of varieties, among which Qishan Shame Noodles enjoys the most popularity. The characteristics of whistling noodles are long and thin noodles, even thickness, fresh and fragrant bacon, and oily and red soup. The local flavor of Qishan Shame Noodle is especially strong, it has the characteristics of thin, sinewy, light, wang, sour, spicy, fragrant, etc., and it is soft and smooth in the mouth.
8, eat sesame flowers
And crispy and crunchy sesame flowers is also a Dragon Boat Festival food. Dragon Boat Festival itself is to commemorate our great patriotic poet Qu Yuan, in this day 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.
9, eat "five red", "five yellow"
Nanjing's traditional Dragon Boat Festival food is "five yellow", that is, eel, yellow fish, duck egg yellow, cucumber, The five yellows are eel, yellow fish, duck egg yolk, cucumber and xionghuang wine. As history changes and society develops, the content of the "five yellows" has gradually evolved into the current "five reds", namely "roast duck, amaranth, duck eggs, lobster, and xionghuang wine". It is said that the Dragon Boat Festival ate the "five red", "five yellow", the whole summer can avoid the evil summer.
10, drink calamus wine
Drinking calamus wine, is the traditional custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. Chen Kechang, a scholar of the Southern Song Dynasty, once wrote a poem, "Bottle pan calamus, year after year in the beginning of May". Calamus wine is a kind of medicinal wine made from calamus and white or yellow wine. Drinking calamus wine on 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.