Zhejiang people eat "Huang Wu" and "Huang Wu" on the Dragon Boat Festival, which Huang Wu does it refer to?

"Huang Wu" refers to eel, yellow croaker, cucumber, salted egg yolk and realgar wine. Whether it is Five Red or Huang Wu, it is mainly to ward off evil spirits and cool off the summer heat. Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional folk festival in China, also called Duanyang Festival.

At this time, it is getting hotter and hotter, and mosquitoes and flies breed. Therefore, people also call the Dragon Boat Festival in May "Health Month". Dragon Boat Festival has become a great festival for the whole people to prevent diseases, avoid epidemics and drive away drugs, and pray for health and longevity. Every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, especially in Hangzhou, people eat "Huang Wu", and it is the custom of Hangzhou people to eat Huang Wu during the Dragon Boat Festival.

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The moral of eating Huang Wu on Dragon Boat Festival:

1, Monopterus albus, the first yellow in Huang Wu is Monopterus albus, which can enhance the resistance.

2, yellow croaker, yellow croaker is the second yellow in Huang Wu, yellow croaker is rich in nutrients, which can strengthen the body's nutrition during the Dragon Boat Festival.

3. Cucumber is also a kind of Huang Wu. Although cucumber is not yellow, it can clear away heat and detoxify. The weather is hot and humid during the Dragon Boat Festival. Cucumber is eaten to detoxify.

4. Salted duck eggs are also one of Huang Wu. Salted duck eggs can be replaced by soybeans.

5, realgar wine is the most important of the five yellows, because the Dragon Boat Festival is the time for snakes and insects to travel, and there are more snakes and insects at this time. Snakes and insects are most afraid of realgar wine, so people can drink realgar wine without fear of snakes and insects, and snakes and insects are afraid to attack when they smell realgar wine.