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Why do you eat eggs on the third day of the third lunar month?
The first story is that every year on the third day of the third lunar month, it is a day for Han people to greet their ancestors' souls and mourn their ancestors by eating eggs, hoping to get some aura.

The second story is about the communication custom of young men and women in Song City on March 3rd of Zhuang nationality: touching eggs. Eggs are things that dye boiled eggs in various colors to convey feelings. The young man held an egg in the song market to touch the egg in the girl's hand; If the girl doesn't want to, just take the egg and don't touch it. If it's urgent, let the boys touch it. After the egg cracked, they ate the egg, which sowed the seeds of love.

There is not only a folk proverb that "shepherd's purse is a panacea on the third day of March in spring", but also a saying that "eating shepherd's purse in spring is an elixir". It can be seen that shepherd's purse is not only a delicacy, but also a panacea. In traditional Chinese medicine, shepherd's purse has a wide range of medicinal value and is known as "licorice in vegetables". Chinese medicine believes that shepherd's purse is sweet in taste and cool in nature, and belongs to liver, spleen and kidney meridians, which has the effects of harmonizing spleen, promoting diuresis, stopping bleeding and improving eyesight.