The Dragon Boat Festival to eat salted duck eggs from, there are mainly the following two sayings: First, the Dragon Boat Festival is in midsummer, the weather is relatively hot and humid, it is easy to breed bacteria, causing "plague sores" type of disease; and the shape of the duck egg is like the shape of the heart, the ancients believe that eating a duck egg can protect the heart gas God not to be infringed upon. Secondly, some regions in the Dragon Boat Festival have eaten five yellow custom, and salted duck eggs within the duck egg yolk is one of the five yellow.

Why eat salted duck eggs at the Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu Festival, Dragon Festival, Zhengyang Festival, Tianzhong Festival, etc., the festival is on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Lunar Calendar, is the traditional Chinese folk festival. The Dragon Boat Festival originates from the worship of heavenly phenomena and evolved from the sacrifice of dragons in ancient times. Duanwu customs mainly include picking dragon boats, sacrificing to the dragon, picking herbs, hanging moxa and calamus, worshipping the gods and ancestors, washing the herb water, playing the water at noon, dipping the dragon boat water, eating zongzi and other customs. Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other areas of the Dragon Boat Festival to eat "five yellow" custom, five yellow refers to the yellow fish, cucumber, eel, duck egg yellow, xionghuang wine.

There is also a saying that ancient Chinese medicine believes that salted duck eggs can not only nourish yin and clear the lungs, but also treat the summer heat brought about by heat insulation, cough, sore throat and dysentery and other diseases. These diseases are very common in the month of May, so many people eat salted duck eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival, in order to prevent diseases.