Special food of Dragon Boat Festival
1 Zongzi
Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional custom in China. There are many shapes and varieties of zongzi, such as regular triangle, regular quadrangle, pointed triangle, square and strip. Due to the different flavors in different parts of China, there are mainly two kinds: sweet and salty.
2. realgar wine
The custom of drinking realgar wine on Dragon Boat Festival is very popular in the Yangtze River valley. White wine or yellow wine brewed from ground realgar. Realgar can be used as an antidote and insecticide. Therefore, the ancients believed that realgar could inhibit snakes, scorpions and other pests. "Good can kill all poisons, eliminate all evils and cure all poisons. When a man turns his horse upside down, the tiger and the wolf crouch in the mountains, and all kinds of poisons enter the Sichuan water to avoid it. "
3. Huang Wu
There is a custom of eating "Huang Wu" on the Dragon Boat Festival in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. Huang Wu refers to yellow croaker, cucumber, Monopterus albus, duck egg yolk and realgar wine (realgar wine is toxic, and ordinary rice wine is generally used instead of realgar wine). There are other sayings that salted duck eggs can be replaced by soybeans. In the fifth month of the lunar calendar, Jiangnan people call it May and Yellow Moon.
4. Tea eggs
Nanchang, Jiangxi has the custom of cooking tea eggs and salted eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival. The locals also dyed eggs, duck eggs and goose eggs red, put them in colorful net bags and hung them around their necks, hoping that the children would be safe and happy.
Step 5 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 with a single wood and beat it with a long-handled wood. This kind of food has national characteristics and can add festive atmosphere.
6. Garlic eggs
In rural areas such as Henan and Zhejiang, garlic and eggs are eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival. Eat garlic and eggs together to make breakfast. In some places, put some mugwort leaves when cooking garlic eggs. Eating garlic, eggs and fried buns for breakfast is said to avoid the "five poisons".
7. Fried pile
In Jinjiang, Fujian, every household will eat "fried piles" during the Dragon Boat Festival, which are made into thick paste with flour, rice flour or sweet potato powder. 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. This diet custom comes from this.
8. Oil cake
Eating oil cakes on Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional custom in Lantian County, Shaanxi Province. Oil cake is made of scalded oil noodles, stuffed with white sugar, osmanthus, walnut kernel, rose and lard, and then fried in an oil pan. The fried cake is golden yellow, crisp outside and sweet inside, which makes people drool when they take a bite.
9.Monopterus albus
Around the Dragon Boat Festival, eel meat is the most tender and nutritious time of the year, which not only tastes good, but also has the best nourishing effect. Therefore, there is a saying among the people that eels participate in the Dragon Boat Festival.
10, Ai Momo
Eating Folium Artemisiae Argyi during the Dragon Boat Festival can sterilize and repel insects, and has inhibitory effects on a variety of bacteria and skin fungi. So in many places, rice flour or flour is fermented and steamed with mugwort, which tastes sweet and soft.
1 1, face fan
Eating vermicelli on Dragon Boat Festival is very popular in Gansu and Ningxia. The local people make the hair into a fan shape with multiple layers, each layer is sprinkled with pepper, the surface is kneaded into various shapes of patterns, and then dyed with color, which is extremely beautiful.
12, pancakes
In parts of southern Fujian and Wenzhou, there is also the custom of eating pancakes during the Dragon Boat Festival. Pancakes are made into paste with flour, spread on a large flat-bottomed iron pot, made into translucent cakes, which look like a full moon and are as thin as a beautiful moon, and then rolled with fried bean sprouts, shredded lean meat, mushrooms and other fillings, and made into cylindrical food, similar to spring rolls.
13, mung bean cake
Wuhan, Nanjing, Wuhu, Xi 'an and other places will definitely eat mung bean cakes during the Dragon Boat Festival. "Gao" and "Gao" are homophonic, meaning the apprentice, and eating zongzi together during the Dragon Boat Festival also means "high school", which is the good wish of the students who are going to refer to it.
14, five reds
It is said that eating five reds during the Dragon Boat Festival can drive away five poisons and ward off evil spirits for a whole summer. However, the content of "five reds" varies from place to place. The common feature of these foods is that they turn red when cooked. Five reds are generally red amaranth, lobster, duck eggs in red oil, roast duck and eel.
15, five white people
Suzhou is the representative of Jiangnan water town. Dragon Boat Festival is characterized by eating five whites, generally only boiled white, boiled chicken, white tofu, cook the meat and white garlic.
16, salted duck eggs
Although many people usually eat it, it is meaningful to eat salted duck eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival. In ancient times, May was reset to the poisonous month, and salted duck eggs were eaten to avoid the five poisons, which refer to snakes, centipedes, spiders, geckos and scorpions.
17, twist
Crispy twist is also a must-have food for the Dragon Boat Festival. Because the Dragon Boat Festival has always been said to have five poisons, the custom of making twists on the Dragon Boat Festival has always been circulated among the people. Because twist is also called sesame candy, it is unlucky to let children eat sesame candy to stick their mouths on this day, in order to protect children's health and wish our life sweet and beautiful.
18, Bergen
Scolopendra is the general name of all kinds of roots and barks that can only be eaten around the Dragon Boat Festival, including fennel root, chicken thorn root, little red garlic, Paris polyphylla, Polygonum multiflorum Thunb, Li Feifen, Manshanxiang, Achyranthes bidentata, Angelica sinensis, burdock root, asparagus and so on. These "medicinal roots" with different shapes and different curative effects constitute the unique "centipede" of Yunnan Dragon Boat Festival. During the Dragon Boat Festival, the streets and alleys around Pu 'er and Simao in Yunnan began to be filled with hundreds of different kinds.
Stewed with native chicken, the picked hundred roots have a unique flavor and are very fresh and fragrant, rather than the common bitter taste of medicinal materials. Eating 100 pieces of chicken soup on the Dragon Boat Festival should be related to the environment of boils in ancient southwest China, and it is also because the Dragon Boat Festival is the most serious time of poisoning in a year, which is the same as expelling the five poisons in other places.
19, distilled rice
Popular in some Jin-speaking areas, steamed rice is steamed rice from yellow rice (millet). Steamed rice is a famous food popular in Taiyuan, Jinzhong and Lvliang. Children of Sanjin have been the core food for fairs, temple fairs, weddings and funerals, Dragon Boat Festival and Laba for thousands of years because of their exquisite craftsmanship, rich nutrition and profound cultural heritage.
20. Eat peaches, eggplant and kidney beans.
There is a saying in Sichuan that eating peaches, eggplant and kidney beans during the Dragon Boat Festival is suspected of health care and longevity. As the saying goes, eating eggplant will make you tremble, but eating beans will make you old. Hakka people in Miaoli also eat eggplant, long beans and peaches and plums during the Dragon Boat Festival. But the symbolic meaning of these foods is different from that of southerners. Eating plums represents offspring reproduction, and some people think that suspicion can resist heatstroke. Eating long beans can avoid being bitten by snakes (because long beans are shaped like snakes). Eating eggplant can resist mosquito bites (eggplant is called "hanging vegetables" in Hakka dialect, and biting people is "ㄉㄠ", which is homophonic).
Dragon boat festival health principle
Chinese herbal medicines avoid toxic pathogens.
I have to say wormwood during the Dragon Boat Festival. It is a medicinal plant with bitter taste, mild nature and no toxicity, and has the functions of warming qi and blood, dispelling cold and dampness, and avoiding filth with fragrance. It is said that there is a folk custom of "hanging Ai people, wearing, drinking Ai wine, eating Ai cake and smoking". Some people still hang wormwood in halls, bedside and other places. During the Dragon Boat Festival, the air is moist and the mugwort leaves are fragrant, which can remove toxic gases, remove dirt, purify the air, keep the room clean and sanitary, and play a role in disinfection and disease prevention. There is a saying among the people: wormwood can cure all diseases and invite blessings. Hanging on the door can get rid of all kinds of poisons and make people healthy. Therefore, the ancients said that "Ai" can "ward off evil spirits". So far, there is a saying that "the family has Ai for three years, and the doctor doesn't have to come."
In addition, the Chinese herbal medicines commonly used in the Dragon Boat Festival include Acorus calamus, Artemisia annua, citronella and pomelo leaves. After being decocted in water, it can be drunk as tea or soaked in wine, which has a good health care function and can prevent diseases.
Diet can keep fit and prevent diseases.
In ancient times, there was the custom of drinking realgar wine on Dragon Boat Festival. The medicinal properties of realgar have long been recorded in Materia Medica. Realgar is pungent and warm, and has the efficacy of killing insects, eliminating dampness and killing insects. Because of the high temperature season after the Dragon Boat Festival, all kinds of germs breed with the increase of temperature. At this time, it is most timely to use realgar to kill insects, detoxify and prevent diseases.
Every year to the Dragon Boat Festival, people have the custom of eating zongzi. According to legend, it originated from commemorating the patriotic poet Qu Yuan's martyrdom in the Miluo River on the fifth day of May to express his grief for this patriotic poet. Over time, China people have formed the custom of eating zongzi on the fifth day of May. The glutinous rice dumplings in the north are mainly sweet and cool. In the south, it can be divided into two categories: Soviet-style jiaozi includes jiaozi such as glutinous rice, red beans and bean paste, and jiaozi such as fresh meat and ham; Cantonese dumplings are mostly meat dumplings, such as barbecued egg yolk, lard bean paste, fresh meat egg yolk dumplings and so on.
Although the flavor, characteristics and practices of Zongzi in the north and south of China are different, glutinous rice and Zongzi leaves are the main materials. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that glutinous rice is a good food and has a good therapeutic effect. According to the analysis of medicinal properties in Materia Medica, glutinous rice is sweet in taste and flat in nature, and has the functions of invigorating qi and spleen, stimulating appetite and promoting digestion. The ingredients of zongzi also have a good health care function. Such as jujube, red beans, mung beans and so on. It has the effects of enriching blood, calming nerves, diuresis and detoxification, while ham, duck egg yolk and fresh meat are all nutritious foods.
What's more worth mentioning is that the leaves used to wrap zongzi are more delicate. Reed leaves are mostly used in the north, and bamboo leaves or lotus leaves are mostly used in the south. These leaves have good medicinal functions. For example, reed leaves can clear away heat and promote fluid production, remove troubles and quench thirst; Bamboo leaves can clear away heat, relieve annoyance, induce diuresis and detoxify; Lotus leaf can clear away heat, induce diuresis and regulate stomach.
The Dragon Boat Festival is just too long in summer, so eating zongzi can be balanced and light, balanced and clear, which is really a recipe for timely food supplement and dietotherapy. Of course, you should be temperate when eating, and diabetics, the elderly and children should not eat more.
Exercise regulates qi and blood.
Dragon Boat Festival is the most sunny time in a year, and the weather is rather dull. If the work pressure is high, the human body's physiological qi and blood are not running smoothly, and it is easy to be agitated and depressed, palpitations and chest tightness. Emotional changes will affect the function of zang-fu organs, and also lead to mental diseases, such as happiness and sadness, anger hurting the liver, sadness and spleen. Health preservation in summer should make the spleen, stomach, heart and lungs unobstructed. Therefore, besides medicine, diet and peace of mind, we should also strengthen exercise at the same time. The smooth operation of qi and blood in the whole body can enhance the cardiopulmonary function, regulate the metabolism of spleen and stomach, regulate the circulation of qi and blood, and the melancholy mood will also melt away.
The origin of hanging wormwood on Dragon Boat Festival
Hanging wormwood on the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the slaughter of the old surname by the ancient Huang Chao army. People think that hanging wormwood on the door can avoid this risk, so this custom has been passed down. It has been recorded that wormwood can be fragrant, clear-headed, alert, enhance memory, prevent colds and activate bones and muscles. At the same time, it can also burn moxa sticks to treat diseases, which is called moxibustion and is an important part of Chinese medicine.
Wormwood represents a hundred blessings and is a kind of herbal medicine that can cure diseases. Inserting it at the door can make you healthy. In ancient China, it has always been a medicinal plant. Moxibustion in acupuncture uses wormwood as the main component and burns it at acupoints to treat diseases. The legend that wormwood can exorcise evil spirits has been circulating for a long time, mainly because it has the function of medicine. For example, Zonggu's Chronicle of Jingchu records that "when chickens are not crowing, those who pick wormwood look like people, take it and collect it with moxibustion, which is very effective." On this day, Ai Cai became a human figure, hung on the door, and could cast poison gas. "Most people also have the custom of planting wormwood before and after the house for good luck.
On the Dragon Boat Festival, every household has the custom of hanging wormwood. People make wormwood into human form and call it "Ai Ren". They hung mugwort leaves in the air and cut them into the shape of tigers. Women compete to wear them to ward off evil spirits. Therefore, in ancient times, some people called the Dragon Boat Festival the ancient health festival in China. As the Chronicle of Jingchu Years says, "On May 5th, Ai Cai missed people, and there was a green spirit hanging on the door".