Eating eggs on March 3 rd means that you won't have a headache if you eat boiled eggs.
According to legend, in Chu, people have headaches because of wind and rain. On the third day of March, Shennong passed Yunmengze (now Xiaogan) and saw that the villagers had a terrible headache. He found wild eggs and vegetables and cooked them to satisfy people's hunger. When people eat it, their heads don't hurt. The custom of "on March 3, eating ground vegetables and boiling eggs will keep them from having a headache for a year" continues to this day.
However, this is just a folk saying. Although it is a traditional custom to eat cauliflower and boil eggs on March 3, its scientific nature remains to be verified.
However, from a nutritional point of view, although the ground vegetables are wild vegetables, they are rich in nutrients, which contain a lot of carotene, vitamin B and vitamin C, and the content of calcium and iron is also relatively high. These nutrients are beneficial to human health. In addition, the protein content of eggs is high, and lecithin and vitamin A are also rich, so two kinds of nutritious foods are naturally good for the body.
Method for boiling eggs with shepherd's purse
Before the third day of the third lunar month, dig some shepherd's purse in the wild, remove the sundries, wash them, and then put them into the pot together with the shepherd's purse roots.
Soak eggs in cold water for two or three minutes in advance to prevent them from breaking during cooking. Put the soaked eggs in a pot and cook them on high fire. After boiling, turn to medium fire and cook for seven or eight minutes, then turn off the fire. After stopping for one minute, remove the eggs with a colander, break them gently one by one, and then put them back in the pot.
At this time, fire again and cook slowly. When you smell the fragrance of shepherd's purse and the soup in the pot changes color, take out the boiled shepherd's purse and add a little salt to the pot to turn off the heat. In this way, the eggs can be taken out and eaten after being soaked in shepherd's purse soup for a day.