1, eat zongzi
"Eating Zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival" originated in 340 BC. Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet, jumped into the river on May 5th. In order to prevent fish and shrimp from eating Qu Yuan's body in the river, people put rice and eggs in bamboo barrels. Some people also pour realgar wine into the river so that the medicine can stun the dragon water and prevent Dr. Qu Yuan from being hurt. Since then, in order to commemorate him, people will throw zongzi and row dragon boats at the river on May 5th every year. In memory of the great patriotic poet.
2. Eat eggs
The origin of eating eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival is the same as that of Zongzi. Eggs are also an important food on the Dragon Boat Festival. In the morning, when children are not out of bed, adults send eggs to their mouths. According to folk legend, eating eggs gives birth to heart. Because the shape of an egg is like a heart, it is generally believed that eating an egg can keep the spirit from losing money. On the one hand, eating eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival is for good luck, praying not to get sick for a year, on the other hand, it is to improve life. Boiling eggs with wormwood leaves will not only have the special fragrance of wormwood leaves, but also get rid of bad luck and diseases.
3. Eat oil cake
Eating oil cakes on the Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional custom in Lantian County, Shaanxi Province, and it is as important as hanging wormwood and making dumplings. In addition to eating zongzi, you should also eat oil cakes on the Dragon Boat Festival. The oil cake should be made of well-scalded oil noodles, wrapped with stuffing made of white sugar, yellow cinnamon, rose, walnut kernel and lard, and fried in an oil pan. The epidermis is loose, the stuffing is sweet and the appearance is beautiful.
4. Drink five glasses of wine
It is a folk custom to "pick five drinks and brew five drinks on the fifth day of May". Acanthopanax senticosus is Acanthopanax senticosus bark, which smells bitter, and Acanthopanax senticosus bark has a strange fragrance, which can nourish and strengthen bones and muscles. People believe that drinking five drinks can take refuge from evil spirits. Acanthopanax senticosus is mainly used for treating hernia, abdominal pain, male * *, residual urination, female low back pain, and foot pain. Located in a humid area, it is especially suitable for drinking Wujia wine on the Dragon Boat Festival.
5. Eat twist.
Crisp and crisp twist is also a must-have food for the Dragon Boat Festival. The Dragon Boat Festival itself is to commemorate our great patriotic poet Qu Yuan, so we can't say anything unlucky here, so we eat sesame candy (twist) to stick our mouths together and wish our life sweet and beautiful.
6. Eat "five reds" and "wuhuang"
The traditional Dragon Boat Festival delicacies in Nanjing are "wuhuang", namely eel, yellow croaker, duck egg yolk, cucumber and realgar wine. With the historical changes and social development, the content of "wuhuang" has gradually evolved into the present "five reds", namely "roast duck, amaranth, duck eggs, lobster and realgar wine". It is said that after eating the "five reds" and "wuhuang" on the Dragon Boat Festival, you can ward off evil spirits and escape the heat all summer.
7. Drink calamus wine
Drinking calamus wine is a traditional custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. Chen Kechang, a scholar in the Southern Song Dynasty, once wrote a poem "The calamus is flooding every year in early May". Acorus calamus wine is a kind of medicinal liquor made from Acorus calamus and white wine or yellow wine as the original wine. Drinking calamus wine on Dragon Boat Festival is to ward off evil spirits and eliminate poison. Long-term drinking can dispel diseases and strengthen the body.
8. Eat fried piles
In Jinjiang, Fujian, every household will eat "fried piles" during the Dragon Boat Festival, which is made of flour, rice flour or sweet potato powder and other ingredients to make a thick paste. According to legend, in ancient times, it was rainy season in southern Fujian before the Dragon Boat Festival, and it rained continuously. People said that God had pierced a hole and wanted to "mend the sky". The rain stopped after eating "fried piles" on the Dragon Boat Festival. People say that the sky has been mended. This food custom comes from this.
9, eat cake
Dragon Boat Festival is a grand festival for Korean people in Yanbian, Jilin Province. This * * * representative food is fragrant cakes. Cake making is a rice cake made by putting mugwort and glutinous rice in a big wooden trough chiseled by a single wood and beating it with a long-handled wooden pestle. This kind of food has national characteristics and can add festive atmosphere.
10, eat steamed buns.
Many places also use rice flour or flour to ferment and steam steamed buns with mugwort during the Dragon Boat Festival. Artemisia argyi contains a variety of volatile oils, which have a fragrant smell, can repel insects and sterilize, and has a * * effect on a variety of bacteria and some skin fungi. Therefore, in ancient times, Artemisia argyi was essential for both eating and using during the Dragon Boat Festival.
1 1, eat peaches, eggplant and kidney beans.
It is said in Sichuan that eating peaches, eggplant and kidney beans during the Dragon Boat Festival is suspicious of health care and longevity. As the saying goes, eating eggplant will shake you, and eating beans will make you old. Hakka people in Miaoli area also eat eggplant, long beans, peaches and plums during the Dragon Boat Festival. But the symbolic meaning of these foods is different from that of southerners. Eating plums represents offspring's reproduction, and some people think that suspicion can resist heatstroke.