On March 3, there is a legend about the origin of boiled eggs with rice dishes. During the Three Kingdoms period, the famous doctor Hua Tuo came to Miancheng to collect herbs. One day, when he was sheltering from the rain in an old man's house, he saw that the old man had a headache, dizziness, pain and embarrassment. Hua tuo immediately diagnosed the old man, picked a handful of rice dishes in the old man's garden, and asked the old man to take juice and boil eggs. The old man obeyed, took three eggs and recovered. The story spread, people scrambled eggs with rice in succession, and the craze spread all over urban and rural areas. Hua tuo treated the elderly on March 3, so it became a custom in Mianyang to fry eggs with rice on March 3. Later, it gradually spread and became popular in Jianghan Plain.
Cooking eggs with rice on March 3 has become a well-known folk custom. On this day, people collect a handful of rice dishes from the ground, wash them, put them in a pot, add a proper amount of water, add spices such as cinnamon, star anise, spiced powder and soy sauce, cook them with eggs, and pick them up after cooking. This is not only delicious food, but also health and medical care. In Hunan, on the third day of the third lunar month, we eat local dishes and boil eggs, and pay more attention to freshness and ingredients. The ground vegetables must be collected on the third day of March, and then boiled with Chinese herbal medicines such as ginger slices, maple syrup balls, red dates and roadside thorns, so that the boiled soup and eggs have more medicinal value and significance. According to the older generation, if you really want to achieve the therapeutic effect of expelling wind and detoxifying, it is actually the best to cook duck eggs with fresh vegetables.
"Don't forget to boil eggs on the third day of the third lunar month. I ate my back at noon and my legs were not soft in the afternoon. " Shepherd's purse, also known as Dihuazi, grows in fields, roadsides and gardens. Shepherd's purse has many tender leaves and roots, and has a unique and attractive fragrance and delicious taste. There is a folk saying that "shepherd's purse is a magic pill on March 3" and "shepherd's purse is an elixir in spring". The vegetable is cool and sweet, has the functions of cooling blood and stopping bleeding, and can be used for treating hematemesis, hematuria, metrorrhagia and dysentery. On the third day of March in this beautiful spring, take a handful of fresh vegetables home and boil eggs. While tasting the breath of spring, you will also eat for a year, which is nutritious and delicious. Why not?