What should we eat on March 3rd? What do we eat during the Shangsi Festival on March 3rd?

What should we eat on March 3rd? What do we eat during the Shangsi Festival on March 3rd?
March 3rd is the Shangsi Festival for the Han ethnic group, but it is also a traditional festival for some ethnic minorities. Want to know more about March 3rd? The third month of the lunar calendar is also known as Jichun, which is the last month of spring. Visit Shuimoxiansheng.com’s special topic for March of the lunar calendar in 2022 to see more details.

What should we eat on March 3rd?

There is a custom of eating ground cauliflower on March 3rd, which is shepherd's purse.
The third month of the lunar calendar is the time when the ground cauliflower is in full bloom. The ground cauliflower is very effective in treating headaches and preventing meningitis. Therefore, every year in the third month of the lunar calendar, people go to collect ground cauliflower and cook it with eggs. Over time, it has become a custom.
Ground vegetable is also called shepherd's purse because the homonym of shepherd's purse is "gathering wealth". According to folk legend, on the third day of March, when offering sacrifices to ancestors, in order to seek the help of their ancestors' spirits and wealth, people would wash fresh shepherd's purse, tie them into small bundles, put in eggs, red dates, and wind balls, and two or three slices of ginger, cook a big pot, and the whole family would eat a bowl of it. Eating it can not only bring good fortune, but also prevent and treat headaches and dizziness. Over time, it has become a unique folk dietary therapy custom.
As time goes by, the custom of eating cauliflower and boiled eggs on March 3rd is no longer limited to the Hunan area, but has gradually spread to the southern, central and northern regions.

What can I eat on March 3rd?

In ethnic minority areas (mainly the Zhuang ethnic group), there is a custom of eating glutinous rice and eggs on March 3rd.
1. Five-color glutinous rice
Before the March 3rd Festival, every household prepares five-colored glutinous rice and colored eggs. People pick red orchids, yellow rice flowers or yellow gardenias, maple leaves, and purple ivy, and use the juice of these plants to soak glutinous rice to make five colors of glutinous rice: red, yellow, black, purple, and white.
According to legend, this food was passed down after being highly appreciated by fairies; some also say it was used to worship the singing fairy Liu Sanjie. Eating this kind of food will make the family prosperous and the body healthy.
2. Dyed Eggs
During the March 3rd Festival, it became popular in the mountain villages to use dyed eggs as tokens of love, also known as colored eggs.
During the singing festival, a young man would hold a colored egg and try to touch the colored egg in the girl's hand; if the girl didn't want to, she would hold the egg and not let the boy touch it; if she was willing, she would let the boy touch it. After the egg cracked, the two people ate the Easter egg together, which sowed the seeds of love.

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