Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is the only custom that most people know better now. Originally in memory of Qu Yuan, Zongzi gradually evolved into a popular food. Just entering the fifth month of the lunar calendar, people in Hefei began to soak glutinous rice, then washed the leaves of zongzi and wrapped zongzi.

2. Mung bean cake

Everyone in Hefei knows that there used to be a saying in Hefei that the Dragon Boat Festival was celebrated in the morning and the Mid-Autumn Festival was celebrated in the evening. On Dragon Boat Festival, you must eat zongzi and mung bean cake when you get up early in the morning. The reason why mung bean cake is chosen is because the temperature in the south is hot and humid, and mung bean tastes sweet and cool, which is just used to clear away heat and detoxify. Therefore, eating mung bean cake on Dragon Boat Festival is not only to satisfy people's tastes, but also a realistic choice for preventing diseases and keeping fit to meet the hot summer.

Step 3: fruit

In Shucheng area, "eating fruit" is popular during the Dragon Boat Festival. The local folk proverb says: "Eating an apricot during the Dragon Boat Festival will not harm you when you are old;" You don't have to worry about eating a peach during the Dragon Boat Festival. " On the Dragon Boat Festival, children in Huaibei and Bengbu should tie flowers on their wrists, ankles and necks, which is said to ward off evil spirits and prevent drowning. In the folk, they also catch toads as medicine.

4. Eel turtle

In Hefei, there is a special dietary custom, that is, eating eel and soft-shelled turtle on Dragon Boat Festival, which is called "arrowhead eel and horseshoe soft-shelled turtle". In addition, around Chaohu Lake, there is a popular custom of "hiding in the afternoon", that is, at noon on the Dragon Boat Festival, every household does not make a fire and takes zongzi and other food to eat in the wild. If the daughter is married, she will go back to her family for the New Year.

Step 5 enjoy the afternoon

In Hexian County, the Dragon Boat Festival lunch is called "enjoy noon". Drink ale, eat meat such as shad and goose, put chopsticks in the yard at noon, and check the noon.

6. Flower cakes and amaranth

Besides, on the Dragon Boat Festival, we also eat flower cakes and amaranth. Flower cakes are steamed with sugar on the hair surface, shaped like ingots and butterflies, and decorated with red flowers on the surface, which is a timely snack for children. Amaranth is also an essential seasonal dish. It is said that drinking realgar wine can prevent scabies, and eating amaranth can clean the abdomen. In the local dialect, it is called "beating the intestines".

7. Dragon Boat Festival bus

In Huaining area, in addition to eating zongzi, we also eat "Dragon Boat Festival Bar", which is made of refined flour and wine, placed on tung leaves or lotus leaves, and steamed after fermentation. It is sweet and delicious. Hiroko Baba is among them. Haoziba is a special food circulating in Jianghuai and Jiangnan areas of Anhui Province, which is mainly refined from Artemisia, rice flour and bacon.

8. Huang Wu

In Huangshan area, besides zongzi and mung bean cake, we also eat "Huang Wu": cucumber, eel, yellow croaker, realgar wine and salted egg yolk. But over time, many Hefei people eat salted duck eggs at most during the Dragon Boat Festival. The best time to eat Huang Wu is at noon on the Dragon Boat Festival. At this moment, with the help of "Huang Wu" to exorcise evil spirits and detoxify, Gan Kun can be turned around and everything goes well.

Besides paying attention to diet, we should also have the characteristics of Dragon Boat Festival in clothing. On this day, people will give children a Chinese corset embroidered with images of scorpions, centipedes, poisonous snakes, frogs and geckos, which can drive away the five poisons and prevent the plague. Sachets are also the best gifts for children during the Dragon Boat Festival. The sachet contains spices made of realgar and vanilla, which can drive away insects and filth when worn on the body. And some people will hang up the portrait of Zhong Kui to ward off evil spirits and keep healthy.