On the third day of the third lunar month, every household in Jiangmen, the hometown of overseas Chinese, has the custom of eating "chicken vine" cake. Wash its leaves first, grind them with glutinous rice, mix them with boiled sugar water, rub them into powder balls and press them into cakes. Some will also be printed with auspicious words such as "Fu, Lu and Shou". The cakes made from the leaves of Paederia are sweet, cool, delicious and have a unique flavor. After eating, they can clear away heat and detoxify.
2, shepherd's purse boiled eggs folk proverb: "On March 3, shepherd's purse is a panacea." "On March 3rd, shepherd's purse boiled eggs." Spring is the season to eat shepherd's purse. Eating shepherd's purse in spring is also a long-standing traditional custom in China. On this day, Han people have the custom of eating local vegetables and boiling eggs.
Because the homonym of shepherd's purse is "amassing wealth", according to folklore, on the third day of March, at the time of ancestor worship, people will use the gods and wealth of their ancestors to wash fresh shepherd's purse, tie it into small bundles, add eggs, red dates, balloons and two or three slices of ginger to cook a big pot, and the whole family will eat a bowl and have a good time. It is said that it can remove rheumatism, clear fire, relieve pain in waist and legs, and prevent spring plague.
3, five-color glutinous rice. Black, red, yellow, white and purple-Five-color glutinous rice is a traditional food in Zhuang area, which is named "black rice" because of its various colors. Zhuang people regard five-color glutinous rice as a symbol of good luck and good harvest.
Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a young man named Tenong in Zhuangjia Village who always took glutinous rice with him when he went out to work. Monkeys on the mountain always take glutinous rice away. Once, the tenon pulled the maple leaf to drive away the monkey, only to find that his hand holding the maple leaf was dyed black. He had a brainwave. When he got home, he soaked the maple leaves in glutinous rice and cooked them to make black glutinous rice. The monkey saw a mass of black things, thought it was poison, and dared not touch it. After eating black glutinous rice, Tenon felt dry and tired, but he felt full of energy. Later, the dealer learned to cook black glutinous rice with tenon, and then gradually made yellow, red and purple glutinous rice with gardenia and red and blue grass.