Why do you eat salted duck eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival?
Eating salted duck eggs on Dragon Boat Festival is not only because of its unique flavor and taste, but also because salted duck eggs have important nutritional value.
1, salted duck eggs can detoxify.
As the saying goes, "you have to eat salted egg zongzi to send cold." Because the Dragon Boat Festival indicates the arrival of hot summer, the life activities of animals and plants have entered a vigorous stage, coupled with the humid climate and active pests and diseases, it is easy to cause many diseases. Eating salted duck eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival can detoxify and help to keep healthy.
2. Salted duck eggs can supplement calcium and iron
It is said that eating eggs in the long summer is called "summer tonic", so that people will not lose weight in summer, have enough energy and work effectively. Salted duck eggs are rich in inorganic salts such as calcium and iron, which are higher than eggs and fresh duck eggs, so they are a good choice for calcium and iron supplementation in summer.
3. Salted duck eggs can nourish yin and tonify kidney
From the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, salted duck eggs are cold and cool when they enter the kidney. After curing, they have the effect of nourishing yin and tonifying kidney.
4. Salted duck eggs can clear lung fire and reduce yin fire.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that salted duck eggs have better effects of clearing lung fire and reducing yin fire than salted duck eggs, and cooking can cure diarrhea. Among them, salted egg butter has the function of improving eyesight and nourishing eyes, and can also treat children's food accumulation. External use can treat burns and eczema.
The origin of eating salted duck eggs on Dragon Boat Festival
As the saying goes, "to send cold, you must eat salted egg zongzi first." Because the Dragon Boat Festival indicates the arrival of hot summer, the life activities of animals and plants have entered a vigorous stage, coupled with the humid climate and active pests and diseases, it is easy to cause many diseases. Eating salted duck eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival can detoxify and help to keep healthy.
In addition to commemorating Qu Yuan, the Dragon Boat Festival is also to avoid the five poisons, because the legendary monsters with five poisons will do harm to human beings during the Dragon Boat Festival. These poisonous monsters are snakes, centipedes, spiders, geckos and scorpions.
People use five kinds of red plates to symbolize the blood of five poisons. Eating these dishes will scare away the monsters with five poisons, that is, eating five reds, namely roast duck, amaranth, duck eggs with red oil, lobster and realgar wine. It is said that eating these five kinds of red on Dragon Boat Festival can ward off evil spirits and spend the summer.
Legend of eating salted duck eggs on Dragon Boat Festival
Salted duck eggs are one of the "Huang Wu" of the Dragon Boat Festival. Freshly baked salted duck eggs, such as solidified fat, are delicate and refreshing, and the yolk is sandy and oily. If the salt is put properly, it tastes really good! ! ! It means the same thing as Du Niang.
On Dragon Boat Festival, the whole family eats salted eggs, zongzi and amaranth. Amaranth mixed with vinegar and garlic can melt the animal hair in the stomach. After eating the sweet zongzi dipped in sugar, you have to eat salted eggs again. It is said that there will be no sores in summer and no headaches all summer.
Legend has it that after Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu were so sad that they flocked to the Miluo River to pay homage to Qu Yuan. The fisherman paddled the boat and fished for his real body back and forth on the river. A fisherman took out rice balls, eggs and other foods prepared for Qu Yuan and threw them into the river "plop, plop", saying that ichthyosaurs, shrimps and crabs would not bite Dr. Qu's body when they were full, and people followed suit. An old doctor took an altar of realgar wine and poured it into the river, saying that he would stun the dragon water beast with medicine so as not to hurt Dr. Qu. Later, people were afraid that rice balls would be eaten by dragons, so they came up with a way to develop zongzi by wrapping rice with neem leaves and wrapping it with colored silk. Later, on the fifth day of May every year, there were customs such as dragon boat racing, eating zongzi and drinking realgar wine to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan.
Salting method of salted duck eggs in Dragon Boat Festival
One of the pickling methods of salted duck eggs in Dragon Boat Festival;
Wash and dry 50 duck eggs for later use. Then add 850 grams of salt, 250 grams of tea leaves and 250 grams of uncooked rice, and cook with strong fire until the juice is about 200 ml. Finally, the salty tea juice and 75 grams of yellow wine are poured into yellow mud or red mud and stirred evenly, and the duck eggs are evenly wrapped and sealed in a jar. It can be cooked in a month. You can also wash and dry the duck eggs first, and then soak the dried red soil into a paste with boiling water. Wrap all the duck eggs in mud paste, dip both ends in salt, put them in pot salt, and then put them in pot to seal the spout. You can take it out for cooking in half a month.
The second method of curing salted duck eggs on Dragon Boat Festival;
Similarly, first wash the duck eggs and jars and dry them, pour half a bowl of soju in one bowl and put some refined salt in the other. Dip the dried duck eggs in white wine first, then roll them around in a salt bowl, then put them into the jar until all the duck eggs are put into the jar, and finally close the jar and store them in the shade for/kloc-0.5 to 30 days, depending on the personal salty taste.