Dragon Boat Festival, why eat duck eggs!?

During the Dragon Boat Festival, you should eat five yellows: realgar wine, yellow eel, salted duck egg yolk, yellow croaker, and cucumber.

The eggshells are painted red, packed in colorful mesh bags, and hung around the necks of children, which means that the children are blessed with good luck and safety. The Dragon Boat Festival is also the Rain Festival and the Farmers' Festival. As the saying goes, "you have to eat salted egg dumplings to send the chill".

The Dragon Boat Festival heralds that the hot summer is coming, and the life activities of animals and plants have entered their heyday. Farmers predict the rainfall in the second half of the year according to the fulfillment of the rain solar terms in the Dragon Boat Festival, and adjust the agricultural affairs in the second half of the year in a timely manner. The agricultural proverb is in "the first day of the first day of the river rain, the fifth day of the first day of rowing rain, ten."

Three, fourteen sharpening the rain of knives, ten.

Seven, eighteen wash the street rain, twenty dragons dry clothes (to rain)", the agricultural proverb "the first eight (May eighteen) no rain two eight (May eighteen) rest, three eight (May 28) no rain mung beans" means that the first eight such as no rain, eighteen more than half of the rain, if the twenty-eight continue to have no rain, it indicates that the second half of the year is a dry year, only suitable for planting mung beans and other drought-tolerant crops. Eating tea eggs In the Nanchang area of Jiangxi, in addition to eating rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival, it is necessary to boil tea eggs and salted eggs. Eggs are divided into eggs, duck eggs, goose eggs, etc.

The eggshells are painted red, packed in colorful mesh bags, and hung around the necks of children, which means that the children are blessed with good luck and safety. Eating garlic eggs In rural areas of Henan, Zhejiang and other provinces, on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, the housewives of the family get up very early and boil the garlic and eggs prepared in advance together for breakfast. In some places, a few mugwort leaves are put in the boiling of garlic and eggs, and garlic, eggs, and steamed buns are eaten for breakfast.

This way of eating is said to avoid the five poisons and is good for health.

As the saying goes, "You have to eat salted egg dumplings to send the chill." Because the Dragon Boat Festival indicates that the hot summer is coming, the life activities of animals and plants have entered a vigorous stage, coupled with the humid climate, the activity of pests and bacteria is easy to cause many diseases. In ancient times, May was regarded as the "poisonous month" and "evil month", and the plague spread, and the fifth day of the fifth month of May was the first of the nine poisons.

The egg is shaped like a heart, and eating the egg can make the heart and spirit not be lost.

In the past, the eggs eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival were generally salted duck eggs, and the reason why salted duck eggs were eaten was also said.

According to relevant information, salted duck eggs are salty and slightly cold, can nourish yin, clear the lungs, and can treat diaphragmatic fever, cough, sore throat, toothache, diarrhea and other diseases in summer. It was not until modern times that people began to boil fresh eggs and tea eggs in order to enrich the taste.

On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, the housewives of the average family get up very early and use the "grass soup" mixed with more than 10 volatile Chinese herbs such as ** mountain, honeysuckle vine, flower wheat kidney, wormwood, etc., to cook fresh eggs and salted duck eggs for the family to eat for breakfast.

As the saying goes: "If you want to eat salted egg dumplings, you can send the cold." "Because after the Dragon Boat Festival, it indicates the arrival of a hot summer, and the life activities of animals and plants have entered a vigorous stage, coupled with the humid climate, pests and bacteria are active, which is easy to cause many diseases.

Eating salted duck eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival can remove poison and help maintain good health.

According to folklore, eating eggs gives birth to heart. Because the egg is shaped like a heart, the folk generally believe that eating eggs can make the heart and spirit not be lost. On the one hand, eating eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival is to pray for auspiciousness and pray not to get sick for a year, and on the other hand, to improve life.

Because the duck has the strongest ability to lay eggs before and after the Dragon Boat Festival, there are too many duck eggs, so in order to preserve, they have to be pickled, so the Dragon Boat Festival is taken out to eat ......Haha, it's so cold......

The Dragon Boat Festival is, of course, eating duck eggs.

There have always been two theories about the reason for eating salted duck eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival, and both of these theories have been handed down from ancient times.

The first theory is because the Dragon Boat Festival heralds the arrival of a hot summer, and the climate at this time is very humid, which is particularly easy to breed bacteria and cause diseases such as "plague". The shape of the duck egg is more like a heart, so people in ancient times believed that eating salted duck eggs could protect their hearts and spirits from damage, so during the Dragon Boat Festival, for the health of themselves and their families, many families will prepare salted duck eggs.

In addition to this statement, there is also a theory about the reason for eating salted duck eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival. That is, in ancient times, traditional Chinese medicine believed that salted duck eggs can not only nourish yin and clear the lungs, but also be the heat insulation, cough, sore throat and diarrhea caused by high temperature in summer, these diseases are very common diseases in May, so many people eat salted duck eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival in order to prevent the occurrence of these diseases.

In fact, no matter what the reason is, it is related to health, so it can be seen that eating salted duck eggs on the fifth day of May is really beneficial. However, with the continuous improvement of people's living standards, people now have higher requirements when choosing salted duck eggs, not only to be delicious, but also to be a big brand and trustworthy.

The reason why Gaoyou salted duck eggs are famous is not only because of the delicious taste of Gaoyou salted duck eggs, but also because the nutritional value of Gaoyou salted duck eggs is also very high. It is said that good water raises good ducks, Gaoyou has a lot of ditches and harbors in this place, there are rippling lakes everywhere, and it has very high-quality water resources, and the ducks that grow up in such a pure natural water surface can naturally produce good duck eggs.

The origin of eating salted duck eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival is mainly said in the following two ways: one is that the Dragon Boat Festival is in midsummer, and the weather is relatively hot and humid, which is easy to breed bacteria and cause "distemper" diseases; The shape of duck eggs resembles a heart, and the ancients believed that eating duck eggs could protect the heart and spirit from being violated. Second, some areas have the custom of eating five yellows during the Dragon Boat Festival, and the duck egg yolk in the salted duck egg is one of the five yellows.

The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Duanyang Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Chongwu Festival, the Dragon Festival, the Zhengyang Festival, the Tianzhong Festival, etc., is a traditional Chinese folk festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena and evolved from the dragon sacrifice in ancient times. The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival mainly include the customs of picking dragon boats, sacrificing dragons, picking herbs, hanging wormwood and calamus, worshiping gods and ancestors, washing herbal water, playing noon water, soaking dragon boat water, and eating zongzi.

Jiangsu and Zhejiang have the custom of eating "five yellows" during the Dragon Boat Festival, which refer to yellow croaker, cucumber, yellow eel, duck egg yolk, and realgar wine.

There is also a saying that in ancient Chinese medicine, salted duck eggs could not only nourish yin and clear the lungs, but also be the heat insulation, cough, sore throat and diarrhea caused by high temperatures in summer. These diseases are very common in May, so many people eat salted duck eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival to prevent diseases.