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Legend of "five reds": eating "five reds" drives "five poisons"
According to legend, a long time ago, the Jade Emperor announced that poisonous insects in the sky would not come down to earth until the first spring thunder. At that time, the human body temperature rose, so that poisonous insects would not freeze to death. At this time, the five poisonous insects were too cold to come down to earth, so they agreed to go to harm the world together when the weather was warm during the Dragon Boat Festival. These five poisonous insects are snakes, spiders, scorpions, centipedes and geckos.
As soon as I arrived at the door of a house, I heard the hostess say, eat quickly, this is the five poisons of frying. Hearing the verdict, he was stunned. When he looked at the window, he saw five kinds of red dishes on the table. At first glance, he thought it was his own kind. He was scared out of his wits and ran away. These days, people here rarely encounter the five poisons. Since then, people eat five kinds of red vegetables on the Dragon Boat Festival to scare away those poisonous pests, hoping that they will not enter their homes.
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