According to legend, in Chu, people have headaches because of wind and rain. On the third day of March, Shennong passed Yunmengze (now Xiaogan) and saw that the villagers had a terrible headache. He found wild eggs and vegetables and cooked them to satisfy people's hunger. People eat their heads and the pain stops. The custom of "eating vegetables and boiling eggs on March 3, a year without headaches" continues to this day.

A long time ago, people found that cauliflower has a good effect on treating headaches and preventing meningitis. Every year in March of the lunar calendar, cauliflower is in full bloom. Every year in the third month of the lunar calendar, people collect cauliflower and boil eggs. Over time, it has become a custom. In order to remember and inherit this fine tradition, people set the third day of March as cauliflower eating day. Eating cauliflower and boiled eggs on March 3 is not only in Hunan, but also in the south, middle and north-central regions.

What is the reason for eating eggs on March 3?

In addition, every year on the third day of the third lunar month, it is a day when Han people pay homage to their ancestors' souls and eat eggs to pay homage to their ancestors, hoping to get some aura.

Although it is a traditional custom to eat cauliflower and boil eggs on March 3, its scientific nature remains to be verified. However, from a nutritional point of view, cauliflower is a wild vegetable, but it is rich in nutrition, containing a lot of carotene, vitamin B and vitamin C, and the content of calcium and iron is also relatively high. These nutrients are beneficial to human health. In addition, the protein content of eggs is high, and lecithin and vitamin A are also rich, so the two nutritious foods are naturally good for the body.

Because the homonym of shepherd's purse is "gathering wealth", people wash fresh shepherd's purse and bundle it into a bunch, add eggs, red dates and ginger to cook it together, peel the eggs and drink soup, which is not only full of aura, but also can prevent diseases and keep fit. However, it should be noted that the red dates should be put after the eggs are cooked, so as to ensure that the fragrance and medicinal effects of shepherd's purse completely penetrate into the eggs, and make the red dates not rotten, sweet and delicious.