China Jiangnan folk Dragon Boat Festival has the custom of eating "Huang Wu". "Huang Wu" refers to Monopterus albus, yellow croaker, cucumber, salted duck eggs and realgar wine. There are other sayings that salted duck eggs can be replaced by soybeans. In the myth and legend "The Legend of the White Snake", the white lady drinks realgar wine, showing the original shape of the snake. Therefore, people think that poisonous insects such as snakes, scorpions and centipedes can be cracked with realgar wine. Drinking realgar wine on Dragon Boat Festival can drive away evil spirits and detoxify, which is beneficial to health (modern science proves that drinking realgar wine is easy to be poisoned). According to folklore, eating Huang Wu at noon can better ward off evil spirits.
There is a saying in the Dragon Boat Festival: "On May 5th, five colors and three whites celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival together." May is also called May Yellow Moon, so we should eat Huang Wu during the Dragon Boat Festival: realgar wine, yellow croaker, cucumber, eel and salted duck egg yolk; I also want to eat water bamboo, salted duck egg white and boiled meat. In addition, eat "one red", which refers to sweaty vegetables (the soup is red after frying with garlic).
There are also customs of eating "Huang Wu" and "Five Whites" during the Dragon Boat Festival in the south of the Yangtze River. "Huang Wu" people are cucumber, eel, yellow croaker, salted egg yolk and realgar wine (opinions vary, some people regard Huangmei and Huangni snail as one of the Huang Wu. Because realgar is poisonous, it is rarely drunk in liquor now, and it is more common to replace realgar with yellow wine now. "Five whites" means boiled meat, white garlic, boiled chicken, white tofu and water bamboo. Eating "Huang Wu" and "Five White" dishes on the Dragon Boat Festival can clear away heat and reduce fire, strengthen the spleen and regulate the stomach. Of course, it is also an important custom to eat zongzi and race dragon boats in order to commemorate the cultural significance and vote for Qu Yuan of Miluo River!
Why eat Huang Wu on Dragon Boat Festival? This is because realgar is a traditional Chinese medicine, and realgar wine with realgar powder and Acorus calamus root tablets has the function of detoxification and sterilization. There is a proverb in Jiangnan: "On May 5th, realgar shochu celebrates the Dragon Boat Festival". There is also a folk saying that "drinking realgar wine will eliminate all diseases." Yellow croaker, Monopterus albus, salted egg yolk and cucumber are seasonal foods for the Dragon Boat Festival.
Monopterus albus in May and June is said to be a "competitor". At this time, the eel is tender, delicious and nutritious!
The cucumber in Huang Wu is called "the first fruit". May of the lunar calendar. Being able to eat cucumbers just listed coincides with the Dragon Boat Festival, which naturally becomes a must-eat item. In addition, cucumber has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, quenching thirst and promoting fluid production!
Eating salted eggs is the custom of Dragon Boat Festival. Salted egg yolk has the word "yellow", so it is also listed as "Huang Wu". Eating salted egg yolk on Dragon Boat Festival represents health and safety!
As for yellow croaker, the number of large and small yellow croaker in the Dragon Boat Festival is of high quality, and the large and small yellow croaker with rich nutrition and seasonality is naturally included in the "Huang Wu" that must be eaten in the Dragon Boat Festival.
Pojun is the product of the combination of Han folk beliefs and astronomy. Belonging to water, it is the Big Dipper (the first star, others are: Wu Qu, Lian Zhen, Wen Qu, Lucun, Jumen, and Wolf-greedy), which turns gas into consumption and takes care of couples, children and slaves. It is a death squad, a vanguard and a stormtrooper in the army, aiming at extinction, but it is also very dangerous and will inevitably lose troops. Individually, some people worry that support is not enough. Pojun Lu Hua is the assistant of the midfield team. The midfield is endless, so he is named "Rooted". Therefore, Pojun has the meaning of breaking and then standing.