Introduction: When it comes to the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, many people only know how to eat zongzi. In fact, there are many delicious foods in the Dragon Boat Festival. Let me introduce the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival to you. Don't miss the following 19 kinds of Dragon Boat Festival foods!
Eating Zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival
1. Eating Zongzi
The Dragon Boat Festival commemorates the poet Qu Yuan's habit of eating Zongzi. Nowadays, there are many kinds of Zongzi, including fresh meat Zongzi, egg yolk Zongzi, candied jujube Zongzi and original flavor. At this time, control the intake of zongzi according to the actual situation, and don't hurt your body because of greed for delicious food. At the same time, remember to heat zongzi before eating, which is safe and hygienic and reduces the digestive burden.
2. Eat eggs
You must cook eggs in the pot where zongzi is cooked, and if possible, you should cook some duck eggs and goose eggs. After eating sweet zongzi dipped in sugar, you should eat eggs dipped in salt. It is said that eating boiled eggs in the rice dumpling pot at the end of May will not cause sores in summer; Put the duck eggs and goose eggs cooked in the zongzi pot in the sun at noon for a while before eating, so that you won't have a headache all summer.
3. Picking tea and making herbal tea
In some areas in the north, it is preferred to pick tender leaves and potherb leaves and steam them in the Dragon Boat Festival to make tea. In Chaozhou, Guangdong Province, people go to the suburb of Shan Ye to collect herbs and boil herbal tea. This is also good for health.
4. Eat oil cakes
On the Dragon Boat Festival, besides zongzi, you should also eat oil cakes. The oil cake should be made of well-scalded oil noodles, wrapped with stuffing made of white sugar, yellow cinnamon, rose, walnut kernel and lard, and fried in an oil pan. The epidermis is loose, the stuffing is sweet and the appearance is beautiful.
5. Drinking Wujiajiu
"Picking Wujiajiu on the fifth day of May and brewing Wujiajiu" is a folk custom. Acanthopanax senticosus is Acanthopanax senticosus bark, which smells bitter, and Acanthopanax senticosus bark has a strange fragrance, which can nourish liver and kidney and strengthen bones and muscles. People believe that drinking five drinks can take refuge from evil spirits. Acanthopanax bark is mainly used for treating hernia, abdominal pain, impotence in men, residual urination, lumbago in women, and pain in both feet. Located in a humid area, it is especially suitable for drinking Wujia wine on the Dragon Boat Festival.
6. Tangzao glutinous rice
On the Dragon Boat Festival, Naxi people want to eat Tangzao glutinous rice. Glutinous rice can warm spleen and lung, and tonify deficiency and cold. Moreover, glutinous rice will contain glutinous rice, which contains a lot of vitamins, a lot of phosphorus, calcium, iron, protein and fat, and will increase the blood in human blood. Therefore, we should pay special attention to the fact that people with diabetes should not eat.
7. Eat noodles with minced meat
Shaanxi people must eat whistle noodles on the Dragon Boat Festival. Noodles with minced meat are Shaanxi snacks with dozens of varieties, among which Qishan noodles with minced meat are the most famous. Noodles with minced meat are characterized by long and thin noodles, uniform thickness, fresh and fragrant minced meat, and glossy and ruddy noodle soup. The local flavor of Qishan noodles with minced meat is particularly strong. It has the characteristics of thinness, toughness, light, softness, acidity, spicy and fragrance, and it is flexible and smooth to eat.
8. Eating Twist
Crisp and crisp twist is also a must-have food for the Dragon Boat Festival. The Dragon Boat Festival itself is to commemorate our great patriotic poet Qu Yuan. On this day, we can't say something unlucky, so we eat sesame candy (twist) to stick our mouths together and wish our life sweet and beautiful.
9. Eat "five reds" and "wuhuang"
The traditional Dragon Boat Festival food in Nanjing is "wuhuang", namely eel, yellow croaker, duck egg yolk, cucumber and realgar wine. With the historical changes and social development, the content of "wuhuang" has gradually evolved into the present "five reds", namely "roast duck, amaranth, duck eggs, lobster and realgar wine". It is said that after eating the "five reds" and "wuhuang" on the Dragon Boat Festival, you can ward off evil spirits and escape the heat all summer.
11. Drinking calamus wine
Drinking calamus wine is a traditional custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. Chen Kechang, a scholar in the Southern Song Dynasty, once wrote a poem "The calamus is flooding every year in early May". Acorus calamus wine is a kind of medicinal liquor made from Acorus calamus and white wine or yellow wine as the original wine. Drinking calamus wine on the Dragon Boat Festival is to ward off evil spirits and eliminate poison, which can dispel the body for a long time.
There are many dietary customs in the Dragon Boat Festival. Now I will continue to introduce 9 kinds of delicious food for you.
11. Eat Fried Dumplings
In Jinjiang, Fujian, every household will eat "Fried Dumplings" during the Dragon Boat Festival, which is made by mixing flour, rice flour or sweet potato powder with other ingredients to make a thick paste. According to legend, in ancient times, it was rainy season in southern Fujian before the Dragon Boat Festival, and it rained continuously. People said that God had pierced a hole and wanted to "mend the sky". The rain stopped after eating "fried piles" on the Dragon Boat Festival. People say that the sky has been mended. This food custom comes from this.
12. Eating Yezipo
Yezipo is a holiday food for Yulin people, especially in the Dragon Boat Festival and the Double Ninth Festival. There are many legends about Yezibo that can't be tested. One thing is certain that it has a long history. Later, Yezibo gradually evolved into a popular local traditional snack in Yulin.
13, eat cakes
Dragon Boat Festival is a grand festival for Korean people in Yanbian, Jilin Province. The most representative food on this day is fragrant cakes. Beating cakes means putting mugwort and glutinous rice in a big wooden trough chiseled by a single wood and beating them with a long-handled wooden pestle. This kind of food has national characteristics and can add festive atmosphere.
14, eat mugwort steamed buns
Many places also steam steamed buns with mugwort with rice flour or flour fermentation during the Dragon Boat Festival. Artemisia argyi contains a variety of volatile oils, which have a fragrant smell, can repel insects and sterilize, and has inhibitory effects on a variety of bacteria and certain skin fungi. Therefore, in ancient times, Artemisia argyi was used for both food and use.
15. Eat peaches, eggplant and kidney beans
It is said in Sichuan that eating peaches, eggplant and kidney beans during the Dragon Boat Festival is suspicious and leads to longevity. As the saying goes, eating eggplant will shake you, and eating beans will make you old. Hakka people in Miaoli area also eat eggplant, long beans, peaches and plums during the Dragon Boat Festival. But the symbolic meaning of these foods is different from that of southerners. Eating plums represents offspring's reproduction, and some people think that suspicion can resist heatstroke. Eat long beans to avoid being bitten by snakes (because long beans are shaped like snakes). Eating eggplant can resist mosquito bites (eggplant is called "hanging vegetables" in Hakka, and biting ",the local sound is ㄉㄠ", which is homophonic).
16, eat noodles fans
In Minqin County, Gansu Province, noodles fans are steamed on the Dragon Boat Festival. The noodle fan is steamed with hair noodles, which is fan-shaped and has five layers. Each layer is sprinkled with ground cooked pepper, and the surface is kneaded into various patterns and dyed, which is very beautiful. This food custom is said to have evolved from the custom of making, selling and giving fans at the Dragon Boat Festival.
17, eat mung bean cake
In many parts of our country, besides zongzi, mung bean cake is the leading role on the Dragon Boat Festival. It has the characteristics of regular shape, light yellow color, fine and compact texture, soft and sticky taste. The raw materials for making mung bean cake are mung bean powder, pea powder, brown sugar, osmanthus, etc. It is a good summer snack for clearing away heat and toxic materials, protecting liver and benefiting kidney.
18. Drink realgar wine
As the saying goes, "If you drink realgar wine, all diseases will go away". Around the Dragon Boat Festival, many areas in southern China have entered the rainy season, and the weather conditions are conducive to the activities and reproduction of mosquitoes, flies and pests. Realgar is a traditional Chinese medicine that blindly detoxifies and kills insects. It contains toxic arsenic salts, which can be poisoned by pests when they smell it, and people can avoid it when they apply it. Many people also drink realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival, but it is not recommended to take it orally because the main component of realgar is arsenic disulfide, which can be decomposed into highly toxic arsenic when heated.
19. Eating pancakes
In Wenzhou, families still have the custom of eating pancakes during the Dragon Boat Festival. Pancakes are made of white flour into paste, baked in a large flat iron frying pan into translucent cakes with the shape of a full moon and as thin as silk, and then stuffed with mung bean sprouts, leeks, shredded pork, shredded eggs and mushrooms, rolled into a cylinder and bitten off in one bite, which can taste a variety of flavors.