It's about to Dragon Boat Festival. Most people know that the festival is to eat zongzi. What else? Salted duck eggs! It's said that some places eat salted duck eggs on the day of Dragon Boat Festival. The salted duck eggs eaten on the day of Dragon Boat Festival are usually salted with duck eggs before and after the Qingming Festival.
What are the customs of Dragon Boat Festival
The custom of eating salted duck eggs began in the south of the Yangtze River. Here, we eat twelve red dishes for lunch. As the name implies, they are twelve red dishes. The salted duck eggs, a local specialty of Gaoyou, Jiangsu Province, are one of the twelve red dishes because their yolks are bright red. Yuan Mei's "follow the original recipe" praised Gaoyou's duck eggs. Gaoyou's salted eggs are also famous for their popularity. More and more places like it There is also the custom of eating salted duck eggs on Dragon Boat Festival.
It's a symbolic custom of Dragon Boat Festival to row dragon boats and eat zongzi. In Northwest Anhui, the day of Dragon Boat Festival is to eat salted duck eggs. The salted duck eggs eaten on the Dragon Boat Festival are usually salted with the duck eggs before and after the Qingming Festival. After spring, ducks eat a lot of live food. As the saying goes, a snail is as fat as a goose. Duck eat these nutritious live food, the egg is the most full, the air chamber is very small, the nutrition is the best. The fresh duck egg has some fishy smell. After salting, the fishy smell is removed, and the nutrition is easier to absorb.
In the south of the Yangtze River, when did the custom of eating salted duck eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival begin? It's impossible to investigate. On this day, every family cooks a pot of salted duck eggs, which are better than others and have more oil. If someone eats the best salted duck eggs, they will be considered lucky. In the future, they will think that they will succeed. Other people feed a group of ducks every year. For the sake of Dragon Boat Festival energy saving, they eat salted duck eggs with a good smell of oil. Careful people, every day ducks lay eggs, wash them, write down the date on the egg skin with a pencil, and then put them in a salty jar to marinate. When the guests came, the host went to the salty jar and fished out some duck eggs, which served as food and wine. The dates written down with pencils became the basis for choosing salted eggs. Just put down the altar and don't eat, just pick the salted duck eggs that were salted three or five months ago. When a plate of salted duck eggs is served in bright oil, it will definitely attract the praise of TUT, and the host will be very proud.
At that time, apart from the guests, salted duck eggs were rarely eaten in normal times. So the children are looking forward to Dragon Boat Festival. Once the Dragon Boat Festival arrives, they can eat salted duck eggs smoothly.
On the day of Dragon Boat Festival, when the boiled salted duck eggs came out of the pot, the children began to pick them up. First find the date on the duck egg skin and pick the saltiest one. If you don't write a date, just touch it with your hand. The egg skin must be salty and salty. The smooth egg skin is likely to be the one that just landed in the jar a few days ago. Of course, the size and color of duck eggs can also be referred to. It's also very exquisite to eat duck eggs. First, chisel off one end of the duck egg and take it with chopsticks. It's a great enjoyment to eat the sugar triangle of Dragon Boat Festival (triangle sugar bag). When you eat the yolk, the lucky star of the family is born. The yolk of that man's egg must be a little black, and the butter is straight up.