Five yellow generally refers to eel, yellow fish, cucumber, salted duck egg yolk and xionghuang wine. There are also other sayings that salted duck eggs can be replaced with soy beans. In the mythological legend "The White Snake", the White Lady drank Xionghuang wine and appeared in her original form as a snake. Therefore, folk believe that snakes, scorpions, centipedes and other venomous insects can be cracked by Xionghuang wine, and drinking Xionghuang wine at the Dragon Boat Festival can drive away evil spirits and detoxify the body. According to folklore, consuming five yellow at noon can better drive away poison and evil spirits.

Why eat five yellow at the Dragon Boat Festival?

This is because Xionghuang is a traditional Chinese medicine, with the end of Xionghuang and calamus root crumbs into the wine of Xionghuang wine has the effect of detoxification and sterilization. Jiangnan has a proverb: "May 5, andrography wine over the Dragon Boat Festival". Folk also have: "drink the xionghuang wine, all diseases are far away," the saying. And yellow fish, eel, salted egg yolk, cucumber is the Dragon Boat Festival seasonal food.

May and June of the eel, there is a "race ginseng" said. At this time the eel is fat, tender and delicious, rich in nutrients!

The "five yellow" in the cucumber has "the first melon" said. Lunar May. Can eat the new listing cucumber, time just with the Dragon Boat Festival on, it is natural to become a Dragon Boat Festival must eat things. In addition, cucumber has the effect of clearing heat and detoxification, quenching thirst and generating fluids!

Eating salted eggs is the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. Salted egg yolk because there is a "yellow" word, so also into the "five yellow" within the Dragon Boat Festival to eat salted egg yolk, meaning health and safety!

As for the yellowtail, the Dragon Boat Festival, large and small yellowtail, quantity and quality, the main seafood for this time of year, nutritious and seasonal large and small yellowtail, rightfully included in the Dragon Boat Festival must eat "five yellow".

Five yellow specific introduction:

Yellow fish

Duanwu season, the yellowtail will ride the tide of the sea, become the main seasonal dish of the season. At this time of year, the rhubarb fish grows fat and has the most flavorful meat. Braised is the best, the skin of the fish is fragrant and slightly crispy, the fish meat is tender and sweet, there is a taste in the heart. The yellowtail's protein, trace elements and vitamins content is high, of which the trace element selenium, can delay aging, cancer prevention and treatment effect.

Eel

The folk have "summer eel race ginseng," said the eel this time of year is the most fat, tender and delicious meat, rich in nutrients. Dragon Boat Festival in the summer before, although it is not the best time to eat eel, but the eel meat contains nutrition, protein, fat, phosphorus, calcium, iron and other content is very rich, eat eel can be properly supplemented with vitamins, but also to go to the wind and humidity.

Cucumber

In folklore, cucumber has the "first melon" name. Seasonal conversion, in many fruits, cucumber than other fruits listed early, mid-May to eat the new listing, time just with the Dragon Boat Festival on, it is natural to become a Dragon Boat Festival must eat things. In addition, the cucumber also has the function of clearing heat and detoxification.

Salted egg yolk

Salted egg yolk is not eel, yellow fish and cucumber seasonal, because there is a "yellow" word, so also into the "five yellow" ranks. Duanwu eat salted egg yolk, symbolizing health and peace.

Xionghuang wine

Many people first heard of xionghuang wine to drive away evil spirits and detoxification, is in the legend of Xu Xian white lady, only to feel that the original form of the white snake is too careless. And from a scientific point of view, the main ingredient of Xionghuang is arsenic sulfide, arsenic is the main raw material for refining arsenic, and Xionghuang has a certain degree of toxicity, naturally drive away the poisonous insects, but only people will also be poisoned. Thus, the ancient tradition of drinking xionghuang wine naturally can not continue, but the tradition of applying xionghuang to children as well as wearing a scented bag has stayed.