What are the advantages of boiled eggs with shepherd's purse? Let's have a look.

Many places will eat shepherd's purse and boiled eggs on March 3! I wonder if you have this custom there? But you can eat it at other times. There are just too many shepherd's purse these days. You can buy something to eat when you see it!

shepherd's purse

Shepherd's purse, also known as ground grass, can be seen in the wild and on the roadside. Although humble, it is really a baby. There is a folk saying that "shepherd's purse is a panacea on the third day of March in spring" and "eating shepherd's purse in spring is an elixir" Moreover, in traditional Chinese medicine, mustard has a wide range of medicinal values and is known as "licorice in vegetables".

folklore

People in many places have the custom of cooking eggs with shepherd's purse on March 3, but if you ask carefully, many people may not know why there is such a custom, except that it has been passed down from generation to generation. Today, I will listen to Xiaoxin to tell you in detail.

Eating local vegetables and boiled eggs on the third day of March is a custom in southern, central and north-central regions. According to legend, in Chu, people have headaches because of wind and rain. On the third day of March, Shennong crossed Yunmengxi (now Xiaogan). Seeing that the villagers had a terrible headache, he found wild eggs and shepherd's purse and cooked them to satisfy his hunger. After eating it, people's heads will not hurt, so there is a custom of "eating vegetables and boiling eggs on the third day of March, and not having a headache for a year", which has continued to this day. In Ye's "Hankou Zhi Zhu Ci" in Qing Dynasty, there is such a description: "Three or three festivals are more important than kitchen, and the taste is new." Rice and eggs are ready, full and delicious. "The food in the word rice refers to shepherd's purse.

There is also a saying that during the Three Kingdoms period, the famous doctor Hua Tuo came to Miancheng to collect medicine and was caught in heavy rain. When he was sheltering from the rain in an old man's house, he saw that the old man had a headache and dizziness. Hua tuo immediately diagnosed the old man, picked a handful of vegetables in the old man's garden, and asked the old man to take juice and boil eggs to eat. The old man obeyed, ate three eggs and recovered. The story spread like wildfire, and the craze spread all over urban and rural areas, and that day happened to be March 3, and it became a custom to cook eggs in local dishes.

Practice of boiling eggs with shepherd's purse

Wash shepherd's purse and leave roots. Wash the eggs, slice the ginger and wash the red dates. Put shepherd's purse into the pot, add eggs, add water, and finally add ginger slices, red dates and boiled eggs.

It's simple. Anyway, boiled eggs are often eaten. If you didn't eat yesterday, eat some these days.