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Excuse me, what five kinds of "five reds" does Nanjing mean when it says "five reds" are eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival?
Five reds refer to roast duck, amaranth, duck eggs, lobster and realgar wine. The traditional Dragon Boat Festival cuisine in Nanjing is "Huang Wu": Monopterus albus, yellow croaker, duck egg yolk, cucumber and realgar wine. With the changes of history, "Huang Wu" has evolved into the present "five reds": roast duck, amaranth, duck eggs, lobster and realgar wine.

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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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