The three must-eat delicacies during the Dragon Boat Festival are as follows:

1. Zongzi

The custom of eating zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival has a long history and remains popular. To this day, almost every household eats rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival. The types and methods of rice dumplings are also different, and the tastes can range from salty to sweet. Southern rice dumplings are most famous in Suzhou, Ningbo, Jiaxing and other places, and the fillings are mostly bean paste, ham, bacon, and jujube paste; Northern rice dumplings are represented by jujube rice dumplings, and common fillings include jujubes, preserved fruits, etc.

2. Eel

Before and after the Dragon Boat Festival, eel meat is the most tender and nutritious in the year. It not only tastes good, but also has the best nourishing effect, so there is a folk custom of Dragon Boat Festival eel competition. Ginseng argument.

3. Tea eggs

In the Nanchang area of ??Jiangxi Province, there is a custom of eating boiled tea eggs and salted eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival. Local people also dye eggs, duck eggs, and goose eggs red, put them in colorful mesh bags, and hang them around the necks of children, hoping that the children will be safe and good luck will come.

4. Garlic eggs

Rural areas in Henan, Zhejiang and other places eat garlic eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival. It is eaten together with garlic and eggs for breakfast. In some places, a few pieces of mugwort leaves are added when cooking garlic eggs. Eating garlic, eggs and fried steamed buns for breakfast is said to avoid the "five poisons".

5. Oil cakes

Eating oil cakes during the Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional custom in Lantian County, Shaanxi Province. The oil cake is made of hot oiled noodles, stuffed with sugar, sweet-scented osmanthus, walnut kernels, roses and lard, and then fried in a pan. The fried oil cake is golden, crispy on the outside and sweet on the inside. One bite will make people salivate.

6. Da Gao

The most representative food for the Korean people in Yanbian, Jilin Province during the Dragon Boat Festival is Da Gao. Da Gao is a rice cake made by placing mugwort and glutinous rice in a stone mortar or wooden trough and beating it with a long-handled mallet. It is a food with very ethnic characteristics.

7. Jiandui

Jiandui, also called sesame balls, sesame balls, etc., is made by mixing flour, glutinous rice flour or sweet potato flour and white sugar into a paste, and frying it in an oil pan It is made very chewy and especially sweet.

Every household in Jinjiang, Fujian Province eats fried dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival. According to legend, in ancient times, it was the rainy season around the Dragon Boat Festival in southern Fujian. People said that God had broken a hole in the sky and wanted to mend it. After eating Jian Dui during the Dragon Boat Festival, the rain stopped, and people said that the sky was healed. This custom has been passed down to this day.