Wuhuang refers to realgar wine, salted egg yolk, cucumber, Monopterus albus and yellow croaker, which are five yellow foods. This is a wuhuang dish that will only be prepared during the Dragon Boat Festival, which belongs to the customs in southern China. Salted egg yolk can also be replaced by soybeans, and realgar wine can also be replaced by ordinary rice wine. In the past, on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, people would eat wuhuang food, that is, they would mix the five kinds of food together.
The implication of eating wuhuang at Dragon Boat Festival.
When it comes to eating wuhuang on the Dragon Boat Festival, there is such a saying. On the fifth day of May, it is already two to five, and then eating wuhuang will become three to five. Five is yang, which is meaningful. Three to five is fifteen, and fifteen is a full moon.
The ancients were very sensitive to numbers and imaginative. How interesting it was to eat wuhuang on May 5th. The ancients made festivals with distinctive features. The Spring Festival is the first day of the first month, which is the beginning of three ones and three ones. February 2 is the second, the dragon looks up, and March 3 is the third.