Eat zongzi, eggs, make herbal tea, eat oil cakes, drink Wu Jia wine, glutinous rice and sugar dates, eat noodles and minced meat, eat twist, eat Wu Hong and drink calamus wine.
1. Eating Zongzi: The Dragon Boat Festival commemorates the poet Qu Yuan's habit of eating Zongzi. Now there are many kinds of zongzi with different tastes, including fresh meat zongzi, egg yolk zongzi, candied jujube zongzi and original zongzi.
2. Eat eggs: You must cook eggs in the pot where jiaozi is cooked. If possible, you should cook some duck eggs and goose eggs. After eating glutinous rice balls dipped in sugar, you should eat eggs dipped in salt. It is said that eating boiled eggs in zongzi pot at the end of May will not cause sores in summer; At noon, put the duck eggs and goose eggs cooked in the zongzi pot in the sun for a while before eating, so that you won't have a headache all summer.
3. Making herbal tea: In some areas in the north, people like to pick tender leaves and wild vegetable leaves during the Dragon Boat Festival, and then steam them to make tea. In Chaozhou, Guangdong, people go to the suburbs of Shan Ye to collect herbs and cook herbal tea. This is also good for health.
4, eat oil cakes: In addition to eating zongzi, you should also eat oil cakes during the Dragon Boat Festival. Oil cakes should be made of scalded oil noodles, wrapped with fillings 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 five wines: "It is a folk custom to pick five wines and brew five wines on the fifth day of May". Acanthopanax senticosus is acanthopanax bark, which smells bitter, and acanthopanax bark has a strange fragrance, which can nourish liver and kidney and strengthen bones and muscles. People believe that drinking five glasses of wine can ward off evil spirits. Acanthopanax bark is mainly used to treat hernia, abdominal pain, male impotence, residual urine, female low back pain and pain in both feet. It is located in a humid area, especially suitable for drinking Wu Jia wine during the Dragon Boat Festival.
6, sugar jujube glutinous rice: Naxi people want to eat sugar jujube glutinous rice during the Dragon Boat Festival. Glutinous rice can warm spleen and lungs 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 blood in human blood. Therefore, we should pay special attention to that people with diabetes should not eat it.
7. Eat dumplings: Shaanxi people must eat whistle noodles during the Dragon Boat Festival. Minced meat noodles are Shaanxi snacks with dozens of varieties, among which Qishan minced meat noodles are the most famous. Minced meat noodles are characterized by slender noodles, uniform thickness, fresh minced meat and ruddy noodle soup. The local flavor of Qishan minced meat noodles is particularly rich. It is thin, tough, light, soft, sour, spicy and fragrant, and it tastes flexible and smooth.
8. Eat 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 Red Colors: The traditional Dragon Boat Festival food in Nanjing is "Huang Wu", namely eel, yellow croaker, duck egg yolk, cucumber and realgar wine. With the historical changes and social development, the content of "Huang Wu" has gradually evolved into the present "five reds", namely "roast duck, amaranth, duck eggs, lobster and realgar wine". It is said that after eating "Five Red" and "Huang Wu" on the Dragon Boat Festival, you can ward off evil spirits and avoid the heat all summer.
10, drinking calamus wine: drinking calamus wine is a traditional custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. Chen Zeng, a scholar in the Southern Song Dynasty, wrote a poem "Acorus calamus flooding in early May every year". Acorus calamus wine is a medicinal liquor made from Acorus calamus and white wine or yellow wine. Drinking calamus wine on Dragon Boat Festival is to ward off evil spirits and detoxify. Long-term drinking can dispel diseases and strengthen the body.