What else to eat during the Dragon Boat Festival besides rice dumplings? Introducing traditional Dragon Boat Festival food!

What else to eat during the Dragon Boat Festival besides rice dumplings? Introducing traditional Dragon Boat Festival food!
The traditional food for different festivals is also different, but not everyone knows what to eat on the Dragon Boat Festival. So, let’s take a look at what else to eat on the Dragon Boat Festival besides rice dumplings? Introducing traditional Dragon Boat Festival food! The Dragon Boat Festival is one of the four major traditional festivals in May of the lunar calendar. It has a very long history. Customs such as dragon boat racing and eating rice dumplings have been passed down to this day. Come to Shuimo.com to learn more.

What else to eat during the Dragon Boat Festival besides rice dumplings? Introducing traditional Dragon Boat Festival food!

1. Realgar wine
The custom of drinking realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival was once very popular in the Yangtze River basin. White wine or yellow wine soaked with ground realgar.
2. Eat five yellows
In the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, there is a custom of eating "five yellows" during the Dragon Boat Festival. The five yellows refer to yellow croaker, cucumber, eel, duck egg yolk, and realgar wine (realgar wine is poisonous, so people usually drink ordinary yellow wine instead).
3. Rice Cake
The Dragon Boat Festival is a grand festival for the Korean people in Yanbian, Jilin Province. The most representative food of this day is the fragrant rice cake. Dagao is a rice cake made by placing mugwort and glutinous rice in a large wooden trough carved out of a single log, and beating it with a long-handled wooden hammer.
4. Fried dough
In Jinjiang, Fujian, every household eats "Jian Dui" on the Dragon Boat Festival. It is made by mixing flour, rice flour or sweet potato flour and other ingredients into a thick paste and frying it.

What impact does the Dragon Boat Festival have on foreign countries?

1. Impact on Japan
The Dragon Boat Festival has become a traditional custom. The Japanese say that "the mugwort flag attracts a hundred blessings, and the cattail sword cuts off a thousand evils." Special foods for the festival include Japanese rice dumplings and kashiwa mochi.
2. Impact on North Korea
The people of the Korean Peninsula believe that the Dragon Boat Festival is a celebration and a time to worship the heavens. Koreans call the Dano Festival 'Sangil', which means 'God's Day'. During the agricultural society of the Korean Peninsula, people participated in traditional sacrificial activities to pray for a good harvest. During the ceremony, there are activities with local Korean characteristics such as masked dance, Korean wrestling, swinging, and taekwondo competitions. On this day, Koreans will worship the mountain god, wash their hair with calamus water, eat wheel cakes, swing on swings, and wear traditional Korean clothes, but they do not row dragon boats or eat rice dumplings.
3. Impact on Singapore
Whenever the Dragon Boat Festival comes, Chinese Singaporeans never forget to eat rice dumplings and race dragon boats.
4. Impact on Vietnam
The Dragon Boat Festival in Vietnam is on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Vietnamese calendar, also known as Zhengyang Festival. There is a custom of eating rice dumplings on the Dragon Boat Festival.

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