Why does Wang Zengqi’s Dragon Boat Festival put duck eggs first?

Because only the duck eggs from Gaoyou are good and the pickled salted duck eggs are good, so the duck eggs are put first and then the salted duck eggs are written. "There are many ducks, and there are also many duck eggs." The author uses a series of links to illustrate that salted duck eggs are abundant in his hometown.

Original text of "Duck Eggs at Dragon Boat Festival":

My hometown is a water town. Out of the duck. Gaoyou hemp duck is a famous duck species. There are many ducks, and there are many duck eggs. Gaoyou people are also good at pickling duck eggs. Gaoyou salted duck eggs became famous. I live in southern Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Whenever someone asks me about my place of origin, after answering, the person will be in awe: "Oh! You sell salted duck eggs there!" Salted duck eggs are also sold in shops selling pickled meat in Shanghai. They must be used. The note was specifically marked: "Gaoyou Salted Egg". Gaoyou also sells double yellow duck eggs. Duck eggs occasionally have double yolks elsewhere, but not as many as in Gaoyou, and can be exported in batches. The taste of double yellow duck eggs is actually nothing special. Not just a duck egg! But after cutting it open, the two round yellow pieces inside were surprising. I am not very happy when strangers praise Gaoyou duck eggs, as if duck eggs come from our poor place! However, the salted duck eggs in Gaoyou are indeed good. I travel a lot and eat a lot of duck eggs, but they are not comparable to those in my hometown! Once upon a time, it was difficult to find water in the sea, and I really looked down on salted duck eggs from other places. Yuan Mei's "Suiyuan Food List·Small Menu" has an item about "pickled eggs". I don't like Yuan Zicai. Many of the recipes in his "Food List" are from what I heard, and he doesn't know how to cook himself. But after reading "Pickled Eggs", I felt it was very kind and "proud". The article is not long, so here it is:

Gaoyou pickled eggs are the best. They are thin in color and rich in oil. Gao Wenduangong likes to eat them the most. During the banquet, first pick it up to honor the guests and put it on the plate. It is always advisable to cut the shell and use both yellow and white; do not keep the yellow and remove the white, otherwise the flavor will be incomplete and the oil will be dispersed.

The characteristics of Gaoyou salted eggs are that they are fine in texture and rich in oil. The egg white is soft, not dry or powdery like other places, and it feels like chewing lime in the mouth.

The richness of oil is unparalleled elsewhere. The way to eat duck eggs, as Yuan Zicai said, is to cut them in the shell. That is the way to entertain guests at a banquet. For daily consumption, one usually breaks the "short head" and digs it out with chopsticks. As soon as the head of the chopstick was pierced, red oil came out. The yolk of Gaoyou salted eggs is bright red. There is a famous dish in northern Jiangsu called "Cinnabar Tofu", which is tofu fried with Gaoyou duck egg yolk. The salted duck eggs I ate in Beijing had a light yellow yolk. What are they called salted duck eggs?

On Dragon Boat Festival, the children in our area like to hang "duck eggs". On the first day, my aunt or sister tied the knot with colorful silk threads. On the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, the duck eggs are cooked, and it is up to the children to pick one. What is there to choose from the duck eggs? have! First, pick the ones with light green shells. There are two types of duck egg shells: white and light green. Second, choose something with a good-looking shape. Not to mention that duck eggs are all the same, but they are different if you look closely. Some look stupid, some look delicate. After selecting it, put it in the bag and hang it on the button of the placket. What's so good about this? Yet it is a beloved ornament for children. The duck eggs have been hanging in the bag for a long time. Whenever the child gets happy, he will take out the duck eggs from the bag and eat them. The Dragon Boat Festival duck eggs are freshly pickled and have only a slight salty taste, so they can be eaten with a light mouth.

Children should be very careful when eating duck eggs. In addition to knocking out the short position, don't break the eggshell. After eating up the yolk and protein, wash the inside of the duck egg shell with clean water. At night, I catch fireflies and put them in the egg shell, and paste a thin layer on the empty areas. The fireflies are shining brightly in the duck egg shell, it’s so beautiful!

When I was a child, I read the story of Ying Xue in a bag, and I felt that Che Yin of the Eastern Jin Dynasty used a bag to hold dozens of fireflies. After reading it, it was better to use duck egg shells to hold the fireflies. But is it possible to read with fireflies and read until dawn all night long? What Che Yin read was a handwritten paper with large fonts. It would probably be impossible to read the new 5-point fonts.