The same as dumplings, eggs are also an important food on Dragon Boat Festival, in the morning when the child is not yet out of the nest, the adults will send the eggs to the child's mouth. Folklore is rumored to eat eggs heart. Because the egg shape such as the heart, folk generally believe that eating eggs can make the spirit of the heart without loss. Eating eggs at the Dragon Boat Festival is, on the one hand, for good luck and praying for a year without illness, and on the other hand, to improve life.
Boiling eggs with mugwort leaves will not only have the special flavor of mugwort leaves, but also get rid of bad luck and diseases. On the Dragon Boat Festival to eat eggs of folklore, folklore also circulated a legend:
Legends of a long time ago, there is a plague god in the sky, every year at the end of the Dragon Boat Festival will always sneak into the folk to sow the disease, the victims of the children, light fever anorexia, the heavier one is bedridden. Mothers are very distressed about this, and have to burn incense and kowtow to the temple of Nuwa Nyunta, begging her to eliminate the disaster and bless the future generations.
When Nuwawa learned of this, she went to the God of Plague and said, "I will never allow you to harm any of my children." The Plague God knew that Nuwa was powerful and didn't dare to go against her, so he asked, "I wonder how many of your children you have in the lower realms?" Nuwa smiled and said, "I have many children. In this way, on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival every year, I order my first-born children to hang an egg bag on the front of their lapels, and any child with an egg bag on his lapel will not be permitted to do anything you want to do."
This year at the Dragon Boat Festival, the God of Pestilence came down to the realm again, only to see that the children all had a small mesh bag hanging from their chests containing hard-boiled, salted eggs. The plague god thought they were all Nuwa's children, so he didn't dare to do any harm. In this way, the custom of eating eggs at the Dragon Boat Festival gradually spread.