13 What are the traditional foods for the Dragon Boat Festival?

Eat only half or one zongzi a day, with a daily limit of 50 grams, which means half or 1. Especially for patients with gastrointestinal diseases and diabetes, it is best to eat less or not. Old people should avoid being greedy for cold, and it is best to eat it in small pieces several times. Some businesses sell mini zongzi, which is a good choice.

2. Eel

Dragon Boat Festival is not only the time to eat zongzi, but also the most tender and nutritious time of eel meat in a year, so there is a saying that "the eel competes for ginseng in Dragon Boat Festival". Monopterus albus has always been a popular kind of freshwater aquatic products because of its soft and smooth taste, especially for children and the elderly, and it is a good tonic.

Step 3 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 from a single wood and beat it with a long-handled wooden pestle. This kind of food has national characteristics and can add festive atmosphere.

Soak rice in water for a period of time, then take it out and steam it in a pot. Put the steamed rice into a wooden trough or stone trough and beat it repeatedly with a wooden pole. Generally, two people stand face to face at the edge of the trough and beat each other alternately, or one person beats, and one person turns the cake dough below and beats it evenly. Then, a sweet and delicious gluten cake was made.

4. Duck eggs

In addition to commemorating Qu Yuan, the Dragon Boat Festival is also to avoid the five poisons, because the legendary monster with five poisons will do harm to human beings during the Dragon Boat Festival. These five poisonous monsters are snakes, centipedes, spiders, geckos and scorpions. People use five kinds of red plates to symbolize the blood of these five poisons. Eating these dishes will scare away the five poisonous monsters, that is, eating five reds, namely roast duck, amaranth, duck eggs with red oil, lobster and realgar wine. It is said that.

Similar to Wu Hong, Jiangnan also has the custom of eating Huang Wu during the Dragon Boat Festival. Huang Wu refers to eel, yellow croaker, cucumber, salted duck eggs and realgar wine. Whether in Wu Hong or Huang Wu, there are duck eggs, so eating duck eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival has the reason to ward off evil spirits and dispel summer heat.

5. Ai Mo Mo

Many places also use rice flour or flour to ferment steamed mugwort buns during the Dragon Boat Festival. Folium Artemisiae Argyi contains a variety of volatile oils, which are fragrant, can repel insects and sterilize, and have inhibitory effects on a variety of bacteria and certain skin fungi. Therefore, in ancient times, mugwort was essential for the Dragon Boat Festival, whether it was eaten or used.

6. Tea eggs

In Nanchang, Jiangxi, tea eggs and salted eggs are boiled during the Dragon Boat Festival. Eggs include eggs, duck eggs and goose eggs. The eggshell is painted red, packed in colorful net bags and hung around the child's neck, which means wishing the child good luck and safety.

7. Garlic eggs

Every Dragon Boat Festival, housewives in rural areas of Henan, Zhejiang and other provinces get up early and make garlic and eggs for breakfast. In some places, put some mugwort leaves when cooking garlic and eggs. Eating garlic, eggs and fried buns for breakfast is said to avoid the "five poisons" and is good for health.

8. Fried pile

In Jinjiang, Fujian, every household has to eat "fried piles" during the Dragon Boat Festival. The so-called fried pile is made of flour, rice flour or sweet potato powder into a thick paste and fried into a large piece in an oil pan. 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.

9. Yellow rice wine

People believe that using realgar wine can crack poisonous insects such as snakes, scorpions and centipedes, and drinking realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival can exorcise evil spirits and detoxify. Realgar wine contains highly toxic substance arsenic, and basically does not drink realgar wine. Because realgar has antibacterial, detoxicating and dampness-removing effects, during the Dragon Boat Festival, some people will mainly use realgar and add spices such as angelica dahurica and lavender to make sachets, while others will make realgar smoked strips, hoping to ward off evil spirits, insects and snakes.

10, eating noodles fans

In Minqin County, Gansu Province, vermicelli is steamed during the Dragon Boat Festival. The noodle fan is steamed with hair noodles, which is fan-shaped and has five layers. Each layer is sprinkled with ground cooked peppers, and the surface is kneaded into various patterns and dyed, which is very beautiful. This diet custom is said to have evolved from the custom of making, selling and sending fans on the Dragon Boat Festival.

1 1, eat pancakes

In Wenzhou, every household still has the custom of eating pancakes during the Dragon Boat Festival. Pancakes are made of white flour into a paste, baked in a large flat iron frying pan into a full moon-shaped, silky translucent cake, stuffed with mung bean sprouts, leeks, shredded pork, shredded eggs and mushrooms, rolled into a tube, and bitten in one bite, which can taste a variety of flavors.

12, Yezipo

Yezipo is a holiday food for Yulin people, especially during the Dragon Boat Festival and the Double Ninth Festival. Many legends about Yezipo are untestable. One thing is certain, that is, it has a long history. Later, Yezipo gradually evolved into a popular local traditional snack in Yulin.

13, Taiwan Province province-eat peaches, eggplant and kidney beans.

There is a saying in Taiwan Province Province that eating peaches, eggplant and kidney beans during the Dragon Boat Festival can make you grow up healthily. As the saying goes: "Eating eggplant will make you tremble, but eating beans will make you old." Hakka people in Miaoli area also eat eggplant, long beans and peaches and plums during the Dragon Boat Festival. But the meaning of these foods is different from that of southerners. Eating plums symbolizes the reproduction of future generations. Some people think it can prevent heatstroke.