? What does Huang Wu eat at Dragon Boat Festival?
What does Huang Wu eat at Dragon Boat Festival?
Eating "Huang Wu" on Dragon Boat Festival is a folk custom of Han nationality, which is popular in Hangzhou and other places. In May of the lunar calendar, Hangzhou people call it May Yellow Moon, which is named because there are five kinds of food with "yellow" sounds on the market. On the Dragon Boat Festival, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, you must eat realgar wine (blended with realgar and soju, cut the root of calamus and drink a little), yellow croaker, cucumber, salted duck egg yolk, and dumplings wrapped in lobster sauce, which is called "eating Huang Wu".
In the tradition of Jiangnan people, they eat "Huang Wu" on the Dragon Boat Festival-Monopterus albus, yellow croaker, cucumber, salted egg yolk and realgar wine (realgar is poisonous, and ordinary rice wine is generally used instead of realgar wine). In addition, there are other sayings that salted duck eggs can be replaced by soybeans.
1, cucumber
Why do you eat cucumbers during the Dragon Boat Festival? The most fundamental reason is not at present. May is the season when cucumbers are on the market. In addition, it is humid and muggy at this time, and the cucumber is cold and juicy. Eating cold cucumber on Dragon Boat Festival can quench thirst, relieve summer heat and stimulate appetite.
Cucumber is sweet, sweet, cold, bitter and nontoxic. Entering the spleen, stomach and intestine has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, and clearing away heat and toxic materials. Therefore, people who are troubled by damp heat may wish to eat some cucumbers, which can effectively alleviate the discomfort caused by high temperature and heavy rainfall in Xiaoman solar terms.
2. Eel
Monopterus albus in Dragon Boat Festival is tender and delicious, rich in nutrition, not only delicious, but also nourishing. Therefore, there is a folk saying that "Monopterus albus participates in the Dragon Boat Festival". According to the book, Monopterus albus has the effects of enriching blood, invigorating qi, diminishing inflammation, disinfecting and expelling wind and dampness. Folk medicine is used to treat cough, damp-heat itching, hemorrhoids, intestinal wind hemorrhoids, deafness and other diseases.
As we all know, Monopterus albus has a slippery appearance and a layer of mucus on the surface, which is difficult for people to catch. In the process of cleaning, don't clean this layer of mucus. When cutting is too greasy to hold, you might as well put a handful of salt on the eel, or take a clean wet towel and easily hold the eel and cut it into the shape we want!
3. realgar wine
Legend has it that in The Legend of the White Snake, the White Snake drinks realgar wine, showing its original shape. Therefore, people think that using realgar wine can crack poisonous insects such as poisonous snakes, scorpions and centipedes, and drinking yellow wine during the Dragon Boat Festival can exorcise evil spirits and detoxify and maintain good health.
Realgar is warm and pungent, which can dry dampness, kill insects and detoxify; Clinically, external use can treat snake bites, neurodermatitis and so on. However, the main component of realgar is arsenic disulfide, which can be decomposed into highly toxic arsenic when heated, so realgar wine is not suitable for oral administration; At the same time, because realgar can be absorbed from the skin, it is not suitable for external use in large areas to prevent poisoning. If realgar wine is sprinkled under the bed and in the corner, it will have the effect of removing snakes and insects.
4. Yellow croaker
Large yellow croaker is golden in color and scarlet in mouth, which is endowed with rich and peaceful cultural color. People in eastern Fujian have the custom of giving large yellow croaker as a first-class gift to their relatives, especially the Dragon Boat Festival. Sending large yellow croaker on the Dragon Boat Festival contains beautiful expectations. The woman's family collects yellow croaker and marries a yellow-flowered girl; The man's family, married a yellow flower girl, is from Man Tangchun. The newlyweds send large yellow croaker to their parents-in-law, which means that the elders will live longer and the husband and wife will get along well for a hundred years.
The main flood season of Pseudosciaena crocea is around the Dragon Boat Festival and from Qingming to Grain Rain. At this time, the large yellow croaker was plump in meat, golden in scales, reaching the peak of development and having the most edible value. Yellow croaker is rich in protein and vitamins, which has a good nourishing effect on human body and has a good effect on physical weakness and health.
5. Salted egg yolk
Salted egg yolk is not in season like eel, yellow croaker and cucumber. Because of the word "yellow", it has also entered the ranks of "Huang Wu". Eating salted egg yolk on Dragon Boat Festival symbolizes health and safety.
Egg yolk is the top grade of oily "red and oily", but therefore, people with hyperlipidemia and hypertension had better not eat salted duck eggs.
At noon on the Dragon Boat Festival, the most suitable meal for Huang Wu is to mix five kinds of yellow food. Because people think that the Dragon Boat Festival is on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, which is the peak of the sun's spirit in a year and noon is the peak of the sun's spirit in a day, we can use the power of the solar terms of the Dragon Boat Festival to suppress bad luck and enhance our energy.