1 Zongzi
Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional custom in China. There are many shapes and varieties of zongzi, such as regular triangle, regular quadrangle, pointed triangle, square and strip. Due to the different flavors in different parts of China, there are mainly two kinds: sweet and salty.
The origin of eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival
Eating zongzi is to commemorate Qu Yuan, the minister of Chu in the Warring States Period. Legend has it that after Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu were so sad that they flocked to the Miluo River to pay homage to Qu Yuan. The fisherman paddled the boat and fished for his real body back and forth on the river. A fisherman took out rice balls, eggs and other foods prepared for Qu Yuan and threw them into the river, saying that ichthyosaurs, shrimps and crabs were full and would not bite the doctor. People followed suit after seeing it. An old doctor took an altar of realgar wine and poured it into the river, saying that he would stun the dragon water beast with medicine so as not to hurt Dr. Qu. Later, people were afraid that rice balls would be eaten by dragons, so they came up with the idea of wrapping rice with neem leaves and then wrapping it with colored silk to make it develop into brown seeds.
After that, on the fifth day of May every year, there was the custom of eating zongzi. In memory of the patriotic poet Qu Yuan.
2. realgar wine
The custom of drinking realgar wine on Dragon Boat Festival is very popular in the Yangtze River valley. White wine or yellow wine brewed from ground realgar. Realgar can be used as an antidote and insecticide. Therefore, the ancients believed that realgar could inhibit snakes, scorpions and other pests. "Good can kill all poisons, eliminate all evils and cure all poisons. When a man turns his horse upside down, the tiger and the wolf crouch in the mountains, and all kinds of poisons enter the Sichuan water to avoid it. "
Significance of drinking realgar wine on Dragon Boat Festival
Drinking realgar wine on Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan and prevent being hurt by insects and snakes. Moreover, the ancients believed that realgar wine could ward off evil spirits, so they formed the custom of drinking realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival. At the same time, the child's cheeks and ears should be smeared with realgar wine, or the word "Wang" should be written on his forehead, which is a metaphor for the tiger threatening evil spirits.
In addition, realgar wine has a strong insecticidal effect. In ancient China, realgar wine was one of the main disinfectants to kill diseases in summer. Often sprayed under the bed, corner and other dark places to avoid the harm of poisonous insects.
3. Huang Wu
There is a custom of eating "Huang Wu" on the Dragon Boat Festival in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. Huang Wu refers to yellow croaker, cucumber, Monopterus albus, duck egg yolk and realgar wine (realgar wine is toxic, and ordinary rice wine is generally used instead of realgar wine). There are other sayings that salted duck eggs can be replaced by soybeans. In the fifth month of the lunar calendar, Jiangnan people call it May and Yellow Moon.
The Significance of Eating Huang Wu on Dragon Boat Festival
Huang Wu refers to eel, yellow croaker, cucumber, salted duck eggs and realgar wine. Whether it is Five Red or Huang Wu, it is mainly to ward off evil spirits and cool off the summer heat. Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional folk festival in China, also called Duanyang Festival. At this time, it is getting hotter and hotter, and mosquitoes and flies breed. Therefore, people also call the Dragon Boat Festival in May "Health Month". Dragon Boat Festival has become a great festival for the whole people to prevent diseases, avoid epidemics and drive away drugs, and pray for health and longevity. Every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, especially in Hangzhou, people eat "Huang Wu", and it is the custom of Hangzhou people to eat Huang Wu during the Dragon Boat Festival.
In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival also has the custom of eating five reds. In addition to commemorating Qu Yuan, the Dragon Boat Festival should also avoid the five poisons, because there are legendary monsters with five poisons that will harm the world during the Dragon Boat Festival, namely snakes, centipedes, spiders, geckos and scorpions. People use five kinds of red plates to symbolize the blood of five poisons. Eating these dishes will scare away the monsters with five poisons, that is, eating five reds, namely roast duck, amaranth, duck eggs with red oil, lobster and realgar wine. It is said that eating these five kinds of red on Dragon Boat Festival can ward off evil spirits and spend the summer.
4. Tea eggs
Nanchang, Jiangxi has the custom of cooking tea eggs and salted eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival. The locals also dyed eggs, duck eggs and goose eggs red, put them in colorful net bags and hung them around their necks, hoping that the children would be safe and happy.
Step 5 make a cake
Dragon Boat Festival is a grand festival for Korean people in Yanbian, Jilin Province. The most representative food on this day is sweet cake. Caking is to put mugwort and glutinous rice in a big wooden trough carved with a single wood and beat it with a long-handled wood. This kind of food has national characteristics and can add festive atmosphere.
6. Garlic eggs
In rural areas such as Henan and Zhejiang, garlic and eggs are eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival. Eat garlic and eggs together to make breakfast. In some places, put some mugwort leaves when cooking garlic eggs. Eating garlic, eggs and fried buns for breakfast is said to avoid the "five poisons".
7. Fried pile
In Jinjiang, Fujian, every household will eat "fried piles" during the Dragon Boat Festival, which are made into thick paste with flour, rice flour or sweet potato powder. According to legend, in ancient times, it was the rainy season in southern Fujian before the Dragon Boat Festival, with continuous rain. People say that God has pierced a hole to "mend the sky". The rain stopped after eating fried piles on the Dragon Boat Festival. People say that the sky has been mended. This diet custom comes from this.
8. Oil cake
Eating oil cakes on Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional custom in Lantian County, Shaanxi Province. Oil cake is made of scalded oil noodles, stuffed with white sugar, osmanthus, walnut kernel, rose and lard, and then fried in an oil pan. The fried cake is golden yellow, crisp outside and sweet inside, which makes people drool when they take a bite.
9.Monopterus albus
Around the Dragon Boat Festival, eel meat is the most tender and nutritious time of the year, which not only tastes good, but also has the best nourishing effect. Therefore, there is a saying among the people that eels participate in the Dragon Boat Festival.
10, Ai Momo
Eating Folium Artemisiae Argyi during the Dragon Boat Festival can sterilize and repel insects, and has inhibitory effects on a variety of bacteria and skin fungi. So in many places, rice flour or flour is fermented and steamed with mugwort, which tastes sweet and soft.
1 1, face fan
Eating vermicelli on Dragon Boat Festival is very popular in Gansu and Ningxia. The local people make the hair into a fan shape with multiple layers, each layer is sprinkled with pepper, the surface is kneaded into various shapes of patterns, and then dyed with color, which is extremely beautiful.
12, pancakes
In parts of southern Fujian and Wenzhou, there is also the custom of eating pancakes during the Dragon Boat Festival. Pancakes are made into paste with flour, spread on a large flat-bottomed iron pot, made into translucent cakes, which look like a full moon and are as thin as a beautiful moon, and then rolled with fried bean sprouts, shredded lean meat, mushrooms and other fillings, and made into cylindrical food, similar to spring rolls.
13, mung bean cake
Wuhan, Nanjing, Wuhu, Xi 'an and other places will definitely eat mung bean cakes during the Dragon Boat Festival. "Gao" and "Gao" are homophonic, meaning the apprentice, and eating zongzi together during the Dragon Boat Festival also means "high school", which is the good wish of the students who are going to refer to it.
14, five reds
It is said that eating five reds during the Dragon Boat Festival can drive away five poisons and ward off evil spirits for a whole summer. However, the content of "five reds" varies from place to place. The common feature of these foods is that they turn red when cooked. Five reds generally include red amaranth, lobster, duck eggs in red oil, roast duck and eel.
15, five white people
Suzhou is the representative of Jiangnan water town. Dragon Boat Festival is characterized by eating five whites, generally only boiled white, boiled chicken, white tofu, cook the meat and white garlic.
16, salted duck eggs
Although many people usually eat it, it is meaningful to eat salted duck eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival. In ancient times, May was reset to the poisonous month, and salted duck eggs were eaten to avoid the five poisons, which refer to snakes, centipedes, spiders, geckos and scorpions.
17, twist
Crispy twist is also a must-have food for the Dragon Boat Festival. Because the Dragon Boat Festival has always been said to have five poisons, the custom of making twists on the Dragon Boat Festival has always been circulated among the people. Because twist is also called sesame candy, it is unlucky to let children eat sesame candy to stick their mouths on this day, in order to protect children's health and wish our life sweet and beautiful.
18, Bergen
Scolopendra is the general name of all kinds of roots and barks that can only be eaten around the Dragon Boat Festival, including fennel root, chicken thorn root, little red garlic, Paris polyphylla, Polygonum multiflorum Thunb, Li Feifen, Manshanxiang, Achyranthes bidentata, Angelica sinensis, burdock root, asparagus and so on. These "medicinal roots" with different shapes and different curative effects constitute the unique "centipede" of Yunnan Dragon Boat Festival. During the Dragon Boat Festival, the streets and alleys around Pu 'er and Simao in Yunnan began to be filled with hundreds of different kinds.
Stewed with native chicken, the picked hundred roots have a unique flavor and are very fresh and fragrant, rather than the common bitter taste of medicinal materials. Eating 100 pieces of chicken soup on the Dragon Boat Festival should be related to the environment of boils in ancient southwest China, and it is also because the Dragon Boat Festival is the most serious time of poisoning in a year, which is the same as expelling the five poisons in other places.
19, distilled rice
Popular in some Jin-speaking areas, steamed rice is steamed rice from yellow rice (millet). Steamed rice is a famous food popular in Taiyuan, Jinzhong and Lvliang. Children of Sanjin have been the core food for fairs, temple fairs, weddings and funerals, Dragon Boat Festival and Laba for thousands of years because of their exquisite craftsmanship, rich nutrition and profound cultural heritage.
20. Eat peaches, eggplant and kidney beans.
There is a saying in Sichuan that eating peaches, eggplant and kidney beans during the Dragon Boat Festival is suspected of health care and longevity. As the saying goes, eating eggplant will make you tremble, but eating beans will make you old. Hakka people in Miaoli also eat eggplant, long beans and peaches and plums during the Dragon Boat Festival. But the symbolic meaning of these foods is different from that of southerners. Eating plums represents offspring reproduction, and some people think that suspicion can resist heatstroke. Eating long beans can avoid being bitten by snakes (because long beans are shaped like snakes). Eating eggplant can resist mosquito bites (eggplant is called "hanging vegetables" in Hakka dialect, and biting people is "ㄉㄠ", which is homophonic).