China has a long history and profound culture. Ancient festivals are important carriers of traditional culture. The formation of ancient festivals contains profound and rich cultural connotations. Ancient festivals attach importance to the belief in ancestor gods and sacrificial activities, and the belief in ancestor gods is the core of ancient traditional festivals. There are many customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, with various forms and rich contents, and the celebrations are lively. Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, Long Zaitian, full of dragon spirit, do all kinds of evil. Dragon Boat Festival is a folk festival that combines blessing and evil spirits, celebration, entertainment and diet. The content of Dragon Boat Festival custom is rich and colorful. These customs revolve around the Dragon Boat Festival, praying for blessings, fighting disasters and other forms, pinning people's wishes to welcome good luck, ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters. Since ancient times, the Dragon Boat Festival has been a festive day to eat zongzi and roast dragon boats. During the Dragon Boat Festival, the lively dragon boat show and the joyful food feast are all manifestations of celebrating the festival. What are the special diets for the Dragon Boat Festival? China
Zongzi: Zongzi, commonly known as Zongzi, is one of the traditional foods of the Dragon Boat Festival. The main materials are glutinous rice and stuffing, which are wrapped in bamboo leaves and have different shapes, such as sharp corners and quadrangles. Jiaozi is wrapped in millet in the north, which is angular. In ancient north, it was called corn millet. Because of the different eating habits in different places, zongzi has formed a north-south flavor. In terms of taste, zongzi can be divided into salty zongzi and sweet zongzi.
Male yellow wine: The custom of drinking male yellow wine on Dragon Boat Festival is very popular in the Yangtze River valley. White wine or yellow wine brewed from ground realgar. Realgar can be used as an antidote and insecticide. So ancient people thought realgar could restrain snakes, scorpions and other insects.
Huang Wu: In Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, it is a custom to eat Huang Wu during the Dragon Boat Festival. Huang Wu refers to yellow croaker, cucumber, eel, duck egg yolk and realgar wine. There are other sayings that salted duck eggs can be replaced by soybeans.
Caking: Caking is to put Artemisia argyi and glutinous rice in a big wooden trough carved with a single wood and beat it with a long-handled wood. This kind of food has national characteristics and can add festive atmosphere.
Fried dumplings: In Jinjiang, Fujian, every household will eat fried dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival, which are made into thick paste with flour, rice flour or sweet potato flour. According to legend, in ancient times, it was rainy and continuous in southern Fujian before the Dragon Boat Festival. People say that God has pierced a hole and must mend the sky. After eating fried piles on the Dragon Boat Festival, the rain stopped. People say that the sky has been mended.
foreign country
Korea: wormwood cake+cherry tea+soaking soup
In Korea, the Dragon Boat Festival is used to worship ancestors, pray for a bumper harvest and keep people safe. During the Dragon Boat Festival, Koreans like to eat wormwood cakes and cakes, taste cherry tea and drink soup.
Japan: Zongzi/mistletoe cake+calamus wine
Zongzi was called Mao Juan in ancient Japan, and it was conical. At first, the japonica rice was steamed, mashed into rice cakes, wrapped in leaves and cooked with water. Later, it was wrapped with calamus leaves, bamboo leaves and reed leaves, and the production methods gradually diversified.
Singapore: Niangjie Zongzi
Every Dragon Boat Festival, Singaporeans also have the custom of racing dragon boats and eating zongzi. Among them, Niangjie Zongzi is a unique Dragon Boat Festival food in Singapore. Coriander powder, a unique spice, is mixed with soy sauce, carefully marinated with lean meat, mixed with sweet and refreshing wax gourd strips, and finally wrapped in translucent glutinous rice.
Vietnam: yellow ginger glutinous rice+square zongzi
During the Dragon Boat Festival, Vietnamese people will prepare rice with yellow ginger and glutinous rice to thank their ancestors for bringing ample food and clothing to their descendants, and pray for their ancestors to bless the good weather and good harvests. In addition, Vietnamese believe that the turmeric in turmeric rice has the effects of avoiding plague, detoxifying and preventing sores.