1. Realgar
Realgar is a traditional Chinese medicine. Realgar wine made from realgar powder and calamus root cuttings has the effect of detoxification and sterilization. There is a proverb in the south of the Yangtze River: "On May 5th, celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival with realgar liquor." There is also a folk saying: "Drinking realgar wine will make all diseases go away." Drinking realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival can exorcise evil spirits, detoxify and maintain good health. Because realgar is toxic, rice wine is now used instead.
2. Yellow croaker
The yellow croaker during the Dragon Boat Festival is fat and has the most delicious meat. It has become a seasonal dish during the Dragon Boat Festival. Yellow croaker is rich in protein, trace elements and vitamins, and has a good tonic effect on the human body. For those with weak constitutions and middle-aged and elderly people, eating yellow croaker will have a good therapeutic effect.
3. Salted egg yolk
This is usually more common, because the name contains "yellow", and it is also included in the "Five Yellows". In particular, the salted duck eggs with oily yolks are particularly popular among gourmets and are an excellent accompaniment to wine or porridge. During the Dragon Boat Festival, eating salted duck eggs and rice dumplings has become a favorite delicacy for many people.
4. Cucumber
Cucumber among the "Five Yellows" is known as the "first fruit". The fifth month of the lunar calendar. Being able to eat the newly released cucumbers coincides with the Dragon Boat Festival, so it naturally becomes a must-eat during the Dragon Boat Festival. In addition, cucumber has the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying, quenching thirst and promoting body fluids!
5. Monopterus eels
After a winter of breeding and a spring recovery, coupled with warmer weather and abundant food sources, wild eels during the Dragon Boat Festival are especially strong and plump. Moreover, the eel meat is tender at this time, which is the best time to choose food. At this time, rice eel was still very tonic. Ancient medical books also recorded that the functions of rice eel were to replenish deficiency, remove rheumatism, and strengthen muscles and bones. Therefore, there is a saying among the people that "eel competes with ginseng during the Dragon Boat Festival". But please note: eels contain a lot of histidine. Histidine in the body after death is quickly decomposed into the toxic substance histamine, which is easily poisoned after eating, so dead eels cannot be eaten.
The origin of eating five yellows during the Dragon Boat Festival
Legend has it that a long time ago, the Jade Emperor announced that poisons in the sky would not be able to enter the mortal world until the first sound of the spring thunder, so people called that time For Jingzhe. However, some poisonous creatures are afraid of the cold, so they make an appointment to go out to harm the world together during the Dragon Boat Festival when the weather gets warmer. These five poisons are snakes, spiders, scorpions, centipedes and geckos.
They came to the world during the Dragon Boat Festival. As soon as they arrived at the door of a house, they heard the hostess of the house saying, "Eat quickly, these are the five poisons of deep-fried food." The five poisonous people were shocked, so they leaned down to the window and looked. They saw five red dishes on the five plates on the table. The hostess said while eating, these five poisonous vegetables are really delicious. The "five red vegetables" turned into their blood in the eyes of the five poisonous creatures. The five poisonous creatures were so frightened that they fled from the house in a hurry and never dared to go there again.
From now on, people eat five kinds of red vegetables on the Dragon Boat Festival to scare away poisonous animals, hoping that they will not enter their homes. Therefore, the so-called "five yellows" have become a must-have menu on the Dragon Boat Festival table.
Reference for the above content? Baidu Encyclopedia-Wuhuang