The Jiangnan folk has traditionally eat the “five yellow†food customs during the Dragon Boat Festival. “Five Yellow†means yellow fish, cucumber, salted egg yolk, Chinese yellow wine, and yellow peony. It is said that "drinking the yellow wine, all diseases are gone."
The Dragon Boat Festival is one of the four major festivals of the year. May is the poisonous month, and on the fifth day it is the poisonous day. At noon on the 5th, it is poisonous and it is the end of the three poisons. The Dragon Boat Festival is also called "May End". May is the beginning of the whole hot day, the five poisonous snakes are active, and the ghosts and embarrassment are also embarrassing. These will bring disasters especially to children who have no scruples and have no resistance. They must be concentrated in the end of May. For the children to eliminate disasters and prevent poison, therefore, people again described the May end as "Kids Day" or "Doll Festival."
The activities of the Dragon Boat Festival are very rich. It starts from dawn and continues until noon.
On the morning of May, every family eats dumplings to commemorate Qu Yuan. Usually the day before, the dumplings are wrapped and cooked at night and eaten in the morning. The dumplings are mainly used for the tender reed leaves that are abundant in the river ponds. They are also used for bamboo leaves and are collectively referred to as loquat leaves. The traditional form of dumplings is a triangle, which is generally named according to the internal formula. The rice cake is called rice bran, the mixed bean is called cardamom, and the red date is called jujube; the jujube and harps are “early morningâ€, so they can eat dates. At the most, children who are intending to study can eat early or middle. In the past, people who read books took part in the imperial examinations in the past and had to eat dates in the morning. Until the morning of the middle school and college entrance examination days, parents also had to make dates for candidates to eat.
Cook boiled dumplings must be boiled eggs in the pot, conditional but also to cook some duck eggs, goose eggs, after eating sweet boiled sugar boiled eggs, we must eat boiled salt eggs "press the top." It is said that in the end of May, boiled eggs in the pot are not sore in the main summer; the duck eggs and goose eggs cooked in the pot are eaten in the sun for a while and eaten throughout the summer.
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