1, zong zong: Duanwu Festival food zong is China's traditional customs, zong zong shape is a lot of different varieties, generally there is a triangle, square, quadrangle, pointed triangle, square, long and other shapes. Because of the different flavors around China, there are mainly sweet, salty two kinds.
2, xionghuang wine: Dragon Boat Festival drinking xionghuang wine custom, once upon a time in the Yangtze River Basin region is extremely prevalent. Ground into powdered andrographis soaked white or yellow wine. Xionghuang can be used as an antidote, insecticide. So the ancient people thought that the male yellow can restrain snakes, scorpions and other hundred insects, "good to kill a hundred poisons, dispel a hundred evils, the system of parasites, people wear, into the mountains and forests and tigers and wolves volt, into the river and water and a hundred poison to avoid".
3, five yellow: Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other areas of the Dragon Boat Festival to eat "five yellow" custom. Five yellow, refers to yellow fish, cucumber, eel, duck egg yolk, andrographis (andrographis is toxic, are drinking ordinary yellow wine instead of andrographis). There are also other sayings, salted duck eggs can be replaced with soybeans. The fifth month of the lunar calendar, Jiangnan people called five yellow month.
4, cake: Dragon Boat Festival is a grand festival of the Korean people in Yanbian, Jilin Province. The most representative food on this day is the fragrant cake. The cake, is the wormwood and glutinous rice, placed in a large wooden groove chiseled in a single tree, with a long-handled wooden whack made of rice cakes. This food is very ethnic, but also can add to the atmosphere of the festival.
5, fried heap: Fujian Jinjiang area, Dragon Boat Festival, every family will eat "fried heap", that is, with flour, rice flour or sweet potato flour and other ingredients into a thick paste fried. Legend has it that in ancient times, the area of southern Fujian is the rainy season before the Dragon Boat Festival, the rain continues, the Dragon Boat Festival ate "fried pile" after the rain will stop, people say that the sky to make up for the good.
Introduction.
Duanwu Festival is a very popular folk festival in China, the Dragon Boat Festival, is the traditional habits of the Chinese people since ancient times, due to the vast area, coupled with a number of stories and legends, so not only produced a number of different names of the festival, but also has a different custom around. Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, is the auspicious day of the dragon in the sky, in the form of steak dragon boat sacrifice dragon is the Dragon Boat Festival is an important ritual theme, this custom is still prevalent in the southern coast of China. In addition, a series of Dragon Boat Festival customs are also derived from the yin and yang arts and seasons.
According to the yin and yang magic number, noon is yang, and the heavy noon is the most yang. The ancients regarded the day of the Dragon Boat Festival at noon, the three noon, as the time of the extreme yang, the best way to ward off the evil spirits. The ancients also put the Dragon Boat Festival this day coincides with the summer solstice as an auspicious year, known as the "Dragon Flower Club", there are "a thousand years of Dragon Flower Club" said.