The Dragon Boat Festival in the development of inheritance mixed with a variety of folklore as one, the festival is rich in customs, depending on the region and there are differences in the content or details of the customs. The following is the Dragon Boat Festival for you to organize the characteristics of food and health knowledge, I hope to help you.

Dragon Boat Festival food

1, zongzi

Dragon Boat Festival food zongzi is China's traditional customs, zongzi shape a lot of different varieties, there are generally triangular, square, quadrangular, pointed triangle, square, rectangular and other shapes. Due to the different flavors throughout China, there are mainly sweet and salty.

2, xionghuang wine

The custom of drinking xionghuang wine at the Dragon Boat Festival, once upon a time in the Yangtze River Basin region is extremely popular. Ground into powdered xionghuang soaked white or yellow wine. Xionghuang can be used as an antidote and insecticide. So the ancient people thought that the andrographis can restrain snakes, scorpions and other insects, "good to kill a hundred poisons, open up a hundred evils, the system of parasites, people wear, into the mountains and forests and tigers and wolves, into the rivers 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, generally drink ordinary yellow wine instead of andrographis). There are also other sayings, salted duck eggs can be replaced with soy beans. Lunar May, Jiangnan people called five yellow month.

4, tea eggs

Nanchang region of Jiangxi Dragon Boat Festival has boiled tea eggs and salt water eggs to eat the custom. Local people will also be eggs, duck eggs, goose eggs dyed red, with colorful mesh bags, to the children hanging around the neck, hoping that the children are safe and sound, good luck.

5, cake

Dragon Boat Festival is a grand festival of the Korean people in Yanbian, Jilin Province. The most representative food of this day is the fragrant cake. The rice cake is made of Artemisia absinthium and glutinous rice, placed in a large wooden trough chiseled from a single tree, and beaten with a long-handled wooden whack. This food is very ethnic characteristics, and can add to the festive atmosphere.

6, garlic eggs

Henan, Zhejiang and other places in the countryside in the Dragon Boat Festival day to eat garlic eggs. Is the garlic and eggs together to eat boiled breakfast to eat, some places to cook garlic eggs will also put a few pieces of mugwort leaves. Breakfast eat garlic, eggs and branded oil buns, it is said that you can avoid the "five poisons".

7, fried heap

Fujian Jinjiang area, the Dragon Boat Festival, families will also 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 in southern Fujian area before the Dragon Boat Festival is the rainy season, rainy and cloudy, folk say that the sky is wearing a hole, to "make up for the sky". After the Dragon Boat Festival, the rain stops after eating the "fried pile", and people say that the sky is mended. This food custom from this.

8, oil cake

Dragon Boat Festival to eat oil cake is a traditional custom in Lantian County, Shaanxi. The oil cake is made of hot oil flour, covered with sugar, cinnamon, walnuts, roses and lard, and then deep-fried in a frying pan. The fried oil cake is golden, crispy on the outside and sweet on the inside, which is mouth-watering when you bite into it.

9, eel

Around the Dragon Boat Festival is the most tender eel meat in a year, the most nutritious time, not only good taste, tonic effect is also the best, so the folk have "Dragon Boat Festival eel race ginseng" said.

10, Ai bun

Dragon Boat Festival food Ai can be bactericidal insect repellent, on a variety of bacteria and skin fungi have inhibitory effect. So many places also use rice flour or flour fermented with mugwort steamed buns to eat, sweet, soft and sticky taste.

11, noodle fan

Dragon Boat Festival eat noodle fan popular in Gansu, Ningxia area. The local people make the hairy noodles into a fan shape, there are many layers, each layer sprinkled with pepper, the surface of the pinch into a variety of shapes and patterns, and then dyed with color, extremely good-looking.

12, pancakes

Minnesota, Wenzhou part of the Dragon Boat Festival, there is the custom of eating pancakes. Pancakes are made of flour into a paste, in a large and flat iron pan on the spread into a shape like a full moon, as thin as Cindy's translucent cake, rolled on the fried bean sprouts, shredded lean pork, mushrooms and other fillings, made into a tube to eat, similar to the practice of spring rolls.

13, mung bean cake

Wuhan, Nanjing, Wuhu, Xi'an and other places on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival will eat mung bean cake. "Cake" and "high" homophonic, implying that the flying yellow, with the Dragon Boat Festival rice dumplings to eat together with the meaning of "high school", for the preparation of reference for the students is a good wish.

14, five red

It is said that the Dragon Boat Festival to eat five red can drive the five poisons, the whole summer can ward off evil spirits. However, the content of the five red is not the same everywhere, these foods **** the same characteristics is cooked red. Five red general to red amaranth, lobster, red oil duck eggs, roast duck, eel.

15, five white

Suzhou as the representative of the Jiangnan water town, the Dragon Boat Festival is characterized by eating five white, five white generally only wild rice, white chicken, white tofu, white cut meat, white garlic.

16, salted duck eggs

Although many people usually eat, but the Dragon Boat Festival to eat salted duck eggs but there is a moral. In ancient times, May was reset as the month of poison, and eating salted duck eggs was to avoid the five poisons, which are snakes, centipedes, spiders, geckos and scorpions.

17, hemp flowers

And crispy and crunchy hemp flowers is also a Dragon Boat Festival food, because the Dragon Boat Festival has been the five poisons of the argument, so the folk have been circulating the Dragon Boat Festival to do the custom of the hemp flowers, because hemp flowers, also known as hemp sugar, this day to let the children eat hemp sugar to stick to their mouths will not say inauspicious words to protect the well-being, but also to wish us a sweet life.

18, Hundred roots

Hundred roots, that is, before and after the Dragon Boat Festival to eat a variety of grass roots and bark collectively, there are fennel root, chicken thorn root, small red garlic, Chonglou, He Shouwu, the lungs scattered, full of mountain incense, hyssop, Angelica sinensis, burdock root, asparagus ......... these raw colorful, therapeutic effect of the "Hyssop", "Hyssop", "Hyssop", "Hyssop" and "Hyssop". The "medicine root root" with different therapeutic effects, composed of the unique Yunnan Dragon Boat Festival "hundred roots". Every Dragon Boat Festival, Yunnan Pu'er, Simao area of the streets and alleys will begin to be filled with a wide variety of hundred root.

Picked Bai Gen and local chicken stew, the flavor is unique, and there is no medicinal herbs often have a bitter taste, but very fragrant. The consumption of chicken soup at the Dragon Boat Festival should be related to the miasma environment in the southwest of the country in ancient times, and it is also chosen to be consumed at the Dragon Boat Festival because it is the most poisonous and miasma-ridden time of the year, which is the same reason why it is necessary to drive away the five poisons in other places.

19, distilled rice

In part of the Jin language area prevailed, distilled rice that is yellow rice (millet) steamed rice. Distilled rice is popular in Taiyuan, Shanxi, Jinzhong, Luliang and other areas of household names, young and old people enjoy the food, due to sophisticated technology, nutritious, culturally rich, the children of Sanjin for thousands of years has been as a fair, temple hospitality, wedding breakfast, Dragon Boat Festival, Lahai's core cuisine.

20, eat peaches, eggplants and beans

Sichuan is said to eat peaches, eggplants and beans at the Dragon Boat Festival, suspect health care, longevity. As the saying goes: eat eggplant eat to will shake, eat beans eat to old old". The Hakka people in the Miaoli area celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival by eating eggplant and long beans, peaches and plums. However, the meaning symbolized by these foods is different from that of the southern people. Eating eggplants even if it is to take the meaning of its long, eat plums on behalf of the reproduction of children and grandchildren, and some people also believe that the suspicion of resistance to heat stroke. Eating long beans is to avoid being bitten by snakes (because long beans look like snakes). Eat eggplant can resist mosquito bites (eggplant Hakka called hanging vegetables ", and bite", the earth sound for the proportion of a ㄠ ", take its harmony).

Dragon Boat Festival health knowledge

Eat rice dumplings in addition to heat

Chinese medicine believes that glutinous rice has a beneficial effect on the spleen, appetizers and digestion. Used to wrap the dumplings of the zongzi leaves are more elaborate, the north mostly with reed leaves, the south more bamboo leaves or lotus leaves, these leaves have good medicinal function. Such as: reed leaves can clear the heat and promote the production of fluids, in addition to annoyance and thirst; bamboo leaves can clear the heat and annoyance, diuretic detoxification; lotus leaves can clear the heat and dampness, and the stomach and tranquilize the spirit. Overall, the dumplings have to clear the heat, help the spleen and appetizing effect, especially suitable for early summer consumption.

When eating, it is important to note that the raw material for making zongzi is glutinous rice, which is sticky and easy to cause indigestion if eaten in excess, so don't be greedy.

Mugwort and calamus to drive away poison and pestilence

The folk proverb says: "Inserting willow at Qingming, inserting mugwort at the Dragon Boat Festival." In the Dragon Boat Festival, every family should insert calamus and mugwort into the lintel and hang them in the hall. Ai leaves (also called wormwood) is a flavor of aromatic Chinese medicine, has a strong role in driving away poison and pestilence. Modern research has shown that hanging and burning mugwort leaves do have sterilization, prevention of plague epidemic effect. Ai leaves, calamus and the role of mosquito repellent, slowly burning ai leaves mosquito repellent effect is better.

Modern people have very few in front of the house hanging leaves, calamus and other herbs. For this problem, experts say, you can take the smoke and spray aerosol method to solve. Ordinary families can choose before and after the Dragon Boat Festival to close the doors and windows, and then use calamus, mugwort, andrographis combined fumigation for more than 2 to 4 hours, which can play a bactericidal effect. In addition, you can also go to the store to buy insecticidal mosquito aerosol to achieve the purpose of pest extermination

Coated with andrographis to kill pests and detoxification

Before and after the Dragon Boat Festival, many areas in the south of our country have stepped into the rainy season, the weather conditions are conducive to the activities of mosquitoes and flies, pests and reproduction. Xionghuang is a detoxification, insecticidal Chinese medicine, containing toxic arsenic salts, pests smell the food will be poisoned, people coated can avoid poison. There are also many people in the Dragon Boat Festival drink Xionghuang wine, but because the main component of Xionghuang is arsenic disulfide, heat can be decomposed into a very toxic arsenic, so it is not recommended to take internally.

Sprinkling Xionghuang wine is one of the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival. In the Dragon Boat Festival, the andrographis mixed in the wine made of andrographis wine, sprinkled in the corners of the living room and under the bed, has a strong mosquito and insecticidal effect. Because of the andrographis can be absorbed from the skin, external use should not be rubbed on a large area to prevent poisoning.

Drink five plus wine to dispel dampness and avoid evil

"The fifth of May pick five plus, brew five plus wine" is a folk custom. Wuga that is Wuga skin, gas flavor bitter, Wuga bark has a strange fragrance, can nourish the liver and kidneys, strong muscles and bones. Folk believe that drinking Wujia wine, you can take refuge from evil spirits. The medicinal use of the five plus bark is mainly for the treatment of hernia, abdominal pain, men **, urine residual leaching, women's waist and spine pain, two feet pain. Located in humid areas, it is especially suitable for drinking Wuga wine on the Dragon Boat Festival.

Hanging scented sachets to dispel wind and drive away cold

Many places in China have the custom of hanging scented sachets on the Dragon Boat Festival, which is also a way to prevent infectious diseases. Homemade Dragon Boat Festival scented sachets used in traditional Chinese medicine are atractylodes macrocephala, patchouli, Cornus officinalis, ailanthus, cinnamon, sand nuts, dahurica, two grams of each flavor, plus 1 gram of cloves. These herbs are finely ground, then placed in a cloth bag and sewn together. It can be worn on the chest, waistline or navel, or you can hang the scent bag at the door, indoors or in the car. These herbs, according to Chinese medicine, have the function of dispersing wind and driving away cold, strengthening the spleen and stomach, regulating qi and stopping pain, and opening nine orifices, so as to play a role in preventing diseases.

Warm tips: In the modern lifestyle, some of the ancient customs of the Dragon Boat Festival has been slowly abandoned, however, it has been proved that our traditional customs contain a lot of health mysteries.

The custom of eating dumplings at the Dragon Boat Festival

The dumplings are a must-have traditional food for the Dragon Boat Festival, just like the New Year's Eve must eat dumplings, the Lantern Festival to eat round snacks, the Mid-Autumn Festival is set to eat the same moon cake.

Zongzi ancient name dial, corner millet, tube dumplings, sticky millet and so on. Dumplings because people wrap it into a palm resting on the heart of the leaf, "brown", "brown" resonance, shaped like a palm resting on the heart of the leaf and rice as raw material, so called "dumplings". Corn is because the shape of the dumplings angular, wrapped in sticky rice and named. Called tube rice dumplings because the original rice dumplings with bamboo tube storage rice boiled and become.

On the origin of the dumplings, there is such a legend in the folklore: the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, after the martyrdom of Qu Yuan, the people of Chu every year on this day are driving a boat, installed in a bamboo tube of rice, thrown to the Buro River to pay tribute to Qu Yuan. During the Jianwu years (25-55) of Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, a man named Ou Hui in Changsha said that he saw a man who claimed to be Qu Yuan, the great husband of Sanlu, during the daytime, and said to him, "The rice in bamboo tubes that you offer to me every year has been eaten by the dragon. In the future you may stuff the mouth of the bamboo tube with mugwort leaves and tie it securely with five-colored silk, for the augur dragon is most afraid of such things." When he finished speaking, he disappeared.

Later, Ou Hui told everyone about this, and everyone spread the word, and they all did it accordingly, and so the dumplings were created.

In fact, the creation of the dumplings is even earlier than the time when Qu Yuan was alive. According to the relevant documents, the brown rice was initially only boiled and pinched into a ball, one is their own consumption, and the second is to throw people in the river to worship the dragon god.