Eating eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival represents people's good wishes, which can ward off evil spirits and avoid summer heat, and is beneficial to people's health. In fact, eating eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival is for good luck, praying that people will not get sick for a year, and on the other hand, improving their lives.
Why do you want to eat eggs on Dragon Boat Festival?
Eggs, like zongzi, salted duck eggs and realgar wine, are also important foods for the Dragon Boat Festival, with high nutritional value. Therefore, eating eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival has pinned people's good wishes to stay away from diseases.
According to folklore, eating eggs gives birth to the heart. Because eggs are shaped like a heart, it is generally believed that eating eggs can keep the spirit from losing money. On the one hand, eating eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival is for good luck, praying not to get sick for a year, and on the other hand, it is for improving life. Eating eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival represents endless wishes. It is said that it is very lucky to play the game of bumping eggs before eating boiled eggs, and the winner will have good luck.
In some parts of China, there is also the custom of "rolling eggs" on the Dragon Boat Festival. This morning, the old man will put the boiled egg on the child's stomach and roll it back and forth several times. He will also say in his mouth, "The steamed stuffed bun eats the egg, and the disaster will be gone." Before eating eggs, children usually take out their own boiled eggs, which are harder and more interesting than their shells.
In addition, it is said that washing your face with boiled egg water will not be bitten by mosquitoes for a year, and because eggs are heart-shaped, people think that eating eggs can keep your spirit from losing money. In addition, eating eggs is a luxury because of poor living conditions in the early years. Except for the elderly, children, pregnant women and the sick and wounded, the day when ordinary people can eat a few eggs beautifully is probably the Dragon Boat Festival.
The legendary story of eating eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival;
According to legend, a long time ago, there was a god of plague in the sky. Every Dragon Boat Festival, he always sneaks into the people to spread the epidemic. Most of the victims are children, ranging from fever and anorexia to bedridden. Mothers are very distressed about this, so they go to Nu Wa Niangniang Temple to burn incense and kowtow, begging her to eliminate disasters and bless future generations.
When Nu Wa learned about this, she went to the god of plague and said, "You will never be allowed to hurt my first child again." Knowing that Nu Wa had great magical powers, God of plague dared not oppose her, so he asked, "I wonder how many children are there in the lower bound of the Empress?" Nu Wa smiled and said, "I have many children. To tell you the truth, I order my first son-in-law to hang an egg bag in front of her skirt every Dragon Boat Festival. All children who hang egg bags are not allowed to mess around. "
This year's Dragon Boat Festival, the god of plague went down again. I saw a small net bag with boiled salted eggs hanging on the children's chests. The god of plague thinks that they are all children of Nu Wa, so they dare not hurt anyone. In this way, the custom of eating eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival gradually spread.
In Nanchang, Jiangxi, besides zongzi, tea eggs and salted eggs are also eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival. Eggs are divided into eggs, duck eggs and goose eggs. The eggshell is painted red, wrapped in colorful net bags and hung around the child's neck, which means wishing the child "good luck and peace".
Every Dragon Boat Festival, housewives in rural areas of Henan, Zhejiang and other provinces get up early and make garlic and eggs for breakfast. In some places, put some mugwort leaves when cooking garlic eggs and eat steamed bread with garlic eggs for breakfast. This way of eating is said to avoid the "five poisons" and is good for health.
Eating habits of Dragon Boat Festival in different regions
1. Eat zongzi, peaches, fried piles, peaceful swallows and so on from all over Fujian.
2. The most popular foods in Suzhou Dragon Boat Festival are zongzi, realgar wine and Huang Wu banquet.
Guangxi Dragon Boat Festival must be wrapped in cool brown, which is called "grey water zongzi". Soak glutinous rice in filtered brown water. After the glutinous rice is soaked, it will reveal a unique plant ash flavor in the original glutinous rice aroma, and the wrapped zongzi will be light yellow or brown after cooking, which is full of flavor.
Most Sichuanese eat zongzi, salted eggs and amaranth on the Dragon Boat Festival.
On the Dragon Boat Festival, every family in Henan will eat zongzi to commemorate Qu Yuan. Generally, zongzi are wrapped the day before, cooked at night and eaten in the morning.