There is a legend about the origin of the boiled egg with ground vegetables on March 3: During the Three Kingdoms period, the famous doctor Hua Tuo came to Shincheng to collect medicines, and one day, encountering heavy rain, he saw an old man suffering from headache and dizziness when he was sheltering from the rain at his home, and he was in pain. Hua Tuo immediately diagnosed the old man, and in the old man's garden to pick a handful of ground vegetables, asked the old man to take the juice of boiled eggs to eat. The old man did so and took three eggs, and was cured. The story spread, and people ate eggs boiled with ground rice and vegetables, and the craze spread all over the city and the countryside. The date of Hua Tuo's treatment of the old man was the third day of March, therefore, on the third day of March, boiled eggs with ground rice vegetables formed a custom in Shinyang. Later, it gradually spread and became popular around the Jianghan Plain.
Boiling eggs with rice cabbage on the third day of the third month has become a well-known folk custom. Every day, people from the field to pick a handful of rice dishes, washed into the pot, add the right amount of water, with cinnamon, aniseed fennel, five-spice powder, soy sauce and other condiments, with the eggs together with the frying, the eggs will be boiled and then picked up to eat, which is not only a delicious food, but also fitness treatment. In Hunan, March 3 of the lunar calendar this day to eat vegetables boiled eggs is more concerned about fresh and ingredients, vegetables must be March 3 day to pick, and then with ginger, maple ball, jujube, curb thorns and other herbs and eggs with cooking, so that boiled out of the broth and the eggs have more medicinal value and significance. According to the older generation, if you want to really achieve the therapeutic effect of dispelling wind and defeating toxins, boiling green-shelled duck eggs with fresh ground vegetables is actually the best.
"On the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, don't forget to cook eggs with ground vegetables. Eat at noon the waist plate is good, eat in the afternoon the legs are not soft." Ground beet a caper, also known as the ground flower child, growing in the field, roadside and garden, caper leaf tender root fat, with a unique attractive fragrance and delicious, folk "March 3, caper race elixir" "spring food caper race elixir" said. Ground vegetables cool, taste sweet and light, function of cool blood, stop bleeding, can cure vomiting blood, urine blood, leakage, dysentery and other diseases. In this bright spring on the third of March, pick a handful of fresh ground vegetables home boiled eggs, in the taste of spring breath at the same time, but also the health of the year ate down, nutritious and delicious, why not do it?