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Why do you eat salted duck eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival?
In China, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival in China every year. The "end" of the Dragon Boat Festival means "morning" and May is also called "noon", so the fifth day of May is called "Dragon Boat Festival". Everyone knows that people eat zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival to commemorate Qu Yuan, but the old people say they will eat duck eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival. What is the reason for eating duck eggs? What are the customs?

1, duck egg health tonic summer

As we all know, the Dragon Boat Festival also represents the summer solstice. Because of the hot weather, the fifth month of the lunar calendar is called "poisonous month", which represents the season that is easy to get sick. Salted duck is egg-like and slightly cold, which has a certain therapeutic effect on common diseases such as sore throat in summer, cough due to heat, diarrhea and dysentery, and tooth swelling and pain. Because duck eggs can nourish yin and clear the lung, and the effect of health preservation in summer is remarkable, people gradually formed the custom of eating duck eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival.

2, duck eggs to ward off evil spirits and summer heat

The evil spirits mentioned here are not monsters, but five poisonous insects that are easy to haunt in summer, namely centipede, spider, scorpion, gecko and snake. In order to avoid the harm of these five poisonous insects, people have found five corresponding dishes to prevent poisonous insects. These five dishes are duck eggs, realgar wine, amaranth, lobster and roast duck, including duck eggs, so there is the Dragon Boat Festival, which is eaten on the solstice in summer.

3. The custom of Dragon Boat Festival

In fact, besides eating duck eggs and zongzi, there are other folk customs, such as inserting grass or wormwood in front of the door. Some people say it is to ward off evil spirits, but the essence is to repel insects and mosquitoes; There are also five-color silk thread sewing sachets or shoes, Chinese belly and so on. For children, one is to pray for peace, but also to repel insects; Besides these, the most important thing is to row a dragon boat. Many places have large-scale activities such as dragon boat races. Because Qu Yuan jumped into the river, people rowed boats, indicating that saving Qu Yuan by boat was also to commemorate Qu Yuan.