Origin:

Here is a legend:

During the Three Kingdoms period, the famous doctor Hua Tuo came to Miancheng to collect herbs. One day, when he was sheltering from the rain in an old man's house, he saw that the old man had a headache, dizziness, pain and embarrassment. Hua tuo immediately diagnosed the old man, picked a handful of rice dishes in the old man's garden, and asked the old man to take juice and boil eggs. The old man obeyed, took three eggs and recovered. The story spread, people scrambled eggs with rice in succession, and the craze spread all over urban and rural areas. Hua tuo treated the elderly on March 3, so it became a custom in Mianyang to fry eggs with rice on March 3. Later, it gradually spread and became popular in Jianghan Plain.

On March 3rd, boiled eggs with rice is a well-known folk custom here. On this day, people collect a handful of rice dishes from the ground, wash them, put them in a pot, add a proper amount of water, add spices such as cinnamon, star anise, spiced powder and soy sauce, cook them with eggs, and pick them up after cooking. This is not only delicious food, but also health and medical care.

Dimitak, shepherd's purse, also known as Dihuazi. Compendium of Materia Medica: Buddhists often use shepherd's purse as a lantern stick. It is said that it can repel mosquitoes in summer, so shepherd's purse is also called nursing grass.

Rice vegetables belong to Cruciferae. Annual and biennial herbs. Basal leaves are tufted, pinnately divided or incompletely divided, and the leaves are hairy. Spring flowers, racemes, small white flowers. Short pod containing most seeds. Mild sex and strong cold resistance. A field in a field. Young plants are used as vegetables; The whole grass with flowers and fruits is used as medicine, which is cool and sweet. It has the function of cooling blood and stopping bleeding, and is mainly used for hematemesis, hematuria, metrorrhagia and dysentery.

Rice is a delicious dish. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, our ancestors regarded rice dishes as delicious food. The Book of Songs Gu Feng says, "Who says tea is bitter? It is as sweet as water." There is a song circulating here, which also praises that the food is delicious. The ballad is: "Rice food, steamed vegetables, there is a fragrance floating outside the door, and the delicious wife smells it, so she hurriedly brings bowls, eats bowls after bowls, and brazenly brings them over." Cooking eggs and rice dishes together, so that the juice can penetrate into eggs, can make eggs and rice dishes cook together, so that the juice can penetrate into eggs, which can make eggs taste more delicious and everyone loves them. This may be one of the reasons why this custom is popular among people.

Another reason is that the food has good medicinal value and can be used for fitness and treatment. Pharmacological analysis data show that Dimidian is rich in nutrition. 500g Dimidine contains protein 2 1.2g, sugar 24g, fat 1.6g, crude fiber 5.6g, calcium 1.68g, phosphorus 0.2999g, vitamins B 1, B2, B6, C, etc. Eating rice and vegetables in spring has a body-building effect. According to medical experts, Dimidine has diuretic, heat dissipation, vasoconstrictive and hemostatic effects, can slightly dilate coronary artery, lower blood pressure and contract uterus, and is a good medicine for preventing and treating hypertension, coronary heart disease, urticaria, nephritis and other diseases.