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The meaning of eating five yellow on Dragon Boat Festival

4hw.com.cn: Dragon Boat Festival is coming soon, but do you know what customs it has? There is a custom of eating "five yellow" on Dragon Boat Festival in Jiangnan. So, why do you eat five yellow on Dragon Boat Festival? What exactly does five yellow mean?

The meaning of eating five yellow on Dragon Boat Festival

In addition to commemorating Qu Yuan, the Dragon Boat Festival also avoids five poisons, because the legendary five poisons and monsters will harm the world when they arrive at the Dragon Boat Festival. These five poisons and monsters are snakes, centipedes, spiders, geckos and scorpions. People use five kinds of red dishes to symbolize the blood of the five poisons. When they eat these dishes, they will scare away the five poisons and monsters. That is to say, they eat five kinds of red dishes, namely roast duck, amaranth, duck eggs with red oil, lobster and realgar wine. It is said that the Dragon Boat Festival eats the five kinds of red dishes, which can ward off evil spirits and avoid summer.

Similar to Wuhong, Jiangnan folk dragon boat festival also has the custom of eating Wuhuang. Five yellow refers to eel, yellow croaker, cucumber, salted duck egg and realgar wine. Whether it's five red or five yellow, it's mainly for eliminating pathogenic factors and heat.

Dragon Boat Festival, also known as "Dragon Boat Festival", is a traditional folk festival in China. At this time, the weather is getting hotter and mosquitoes and flies are breeding. Therefore, the people also call the Dragon Boat Festival "health month". The Dragon Boat Festival has become a big festival for the whole people to prevent disease, avoid plague and expel poison, and pray for health and longevity. Every year, people in Hangzhou, especially the Dragon Boat Festival, have to eat "five yellow". It is Hangzhou people's habit to eat five yellow on the Dragon Boat Festival.

Which five yellow do you eat on Dragon Boat Festival

Wuhuang generally refers to yellow croaker, eel, cucumber, salted egg yolk and realgar wine.

1. Yellow croaker

The yellow croaker usually likes to live in the deeper sea area. From April to June, it migrates and lays eggs near the sea. In autumn and winter, it returns to the deep sea area. In the Dragon Boat Festival, the yellow croaker comes by the tide and becomes the main seasonal dish of this season. At this time, the large yellow croaker is fat and the meat is the most delicious.

2. Monopterus albus

Monopterus albus can be eaten all the year round through artificial propagation. In the past, Monopterus albus was eaten at Dragon Boat Festival. After a winter's storage and a spring's recovery, coupled with warmer weather and abundant food sources, the wild eel in Dragon Boat Festival is particularly strong and fat, and the eel meat is tender at this time, which is the best time to choose food. At this time, the eel is also very tonic. It was recorded in ancient medical books that the function of eel is to supplement deficiency and damage, eliminate rheumatism and strengthen muscles and bones. Therefore, there is a saying that "eel race ginseng" in Dragon Boat Festival.

3. Cucumber

Cucumber is known as "the first fruit". The four seasons change. Among many fruits, cucumbers are listed earlier than other fruits. In mid May, they will be able to eat the newly listed fruits. The time is just opposite to the Dragon Boat Festival, which naturally becomes a must for the Dragon Boat Festival. In addition, cucumber also has the function of clearing away heat and detoxification.

4. Salted egg yolk

Salted egg yolk has no seasonability of eel, yellow croaker and cucumber, but because of the word "yellow", it has also entered the ranks of "five yellow". There are some reasons for eliminating pathogenic factors and heatstroke when eating duck eggs on Dragon Boat Festival. As the saying goes, 'you need to eat salted egg dumplings to give away the chill'. Because the Dragon Boat Festival heralds the coming of hot summer, animal and plant life activities enter a vigorous stage, coupled with the humid climate, disease and bacteria active, easy to cause many diseases. In ancient times, may was regarded as "poison moon" and "evil moon". The plague spread. The fifth day of May was the first of nine poisons. But the egg shape is like the heart, ate the egg to be able to cause the heart spirit not to suffer the loss. Salty duck eggs are salty and slightly cold, which can nourish yin and clear lung, and can cure diaphragmatic fever, cough, sore throat, toothache, diarrhea and other diseases in summer.

5. Realgar wine

Realgar wine dispels evil and detoxifies. Through the TV play "the legend of the new white lady", we know that we need to drink realgar wine in Dragon Boat Festival.

But that was before. The main component of realgar is arsenic sulfide. Arsenic is the main raw material for arsenic extraction. Realgar has certain toxicity. It can drive away poisonous insects naturally, but people will also be poisoned. Therefore, the tradition of drinking realgar wine no longer continues, but the tradition of putting realgar in the sachet still remains. Realgar has strong insecticidal effect. A small amount of realgar is added into the sachet and hung indoors, which has a good effect of mosquito repellent and disinfestation.