What food does Ningbo Dragon Boat Festival eat? What food does Ningbo Dragon Boat Festival eat?

What food does Ningbo Dragon Boat Festival eat?

The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of May, which is a traditional custom of China people for more than 2,000 years.

However, the Dragon Boat Festival is not just about eating zongzi. During the Dragon Boat Festival, old Ningbo people not only have the custom of eating "Huang Wu Six Whites", but also the little-known "Twelve Red Colors".

"Huang Wu" refers to cucumber, yellow croaker, Monopterus albus, Monopterus albus, Huangmei, egg yolk, soybean paste, loquat and soybean. Anyway, five kinds of food with the prefix "yellow" are enough.

"Liubai" refers to tofu, water bamboo, Chinese cabbage, white striped fish, boiled chicken, boiled meat, white wine, white garlic and so on. People believe that eating "Huang Wu Six Whites" can ward off evil spirits and detoxify.

"Twelve Red" refers to vegetarian fried red amaranth, old salted duck eggs, fried shrimps, carrots with Sanhe oil, diced diced diced carrot sauce, braised yellow croaker, warm cabbage, golden cake mixed with shredded pears, red fruit cheese, cherry soup, white meat with garlic paste and chicken blood soup.

Of course, the most classic food is zongzi.

Nowadays, you can eat zongzi all year round. It seems that eating zongzi is no longer a patent of Dragon Boat Festival. However, wrapping zongzi, eating zongzi and giving zongzi to each other have always been the most representative customs of the Dragon Boat Festival in Ningbo. The December song of solar terms, a folk song in Ningbo, has the saying that "May sugar _ zongzi, June bridge side fan" and "wine with realgar zongzi, Duanyang should be tasted". Ninghai's "Festival Folk Songs" sings: "Eat wormwood on Qingming Day, firewood on April 8, bamboo shoots on Dragon Boat Festival, and wheat cakes on June 6", which shows that eating zongzi is the custom of Dragon Boat Festival. There is an old saying in Ningbo that "eat Dragon Boat Festival Zongzi and freeze it three times", or "eat Dragon Boat Festival Zongzi without a cotton-padded jacket", which means that it is cold to eat Dragon Boat Festival Zongzi, so keep warm.

Jiaozi in Ningbo is different from other places. Ningbo dumplings are made of old yellow glutinous rice shells or bamboo shells, unlike those wrapped in reed leaves, leaves and banana leaves. Ningbo Zongzi is a sticky and palatable dumpling wrapped in alkaline water, which is different from white Zongzi in other places. Ningbo Zongzi is wrapped in a four-corner pillow shape with angular edges, which is different from other triangles, pentagons and hexagons. Ningbo Zongzi is mainly made of glutinous rice, which is different from other places where it is wrapped with sorghum rice, yellow glutinous rice and sticky corn. There are many kinds of zongzi in Ningbo, including alkaline zongzi, red bean zongzi, mung bean zongzi, cowpea zongzi, red jujube zongzi and so on, as well as meat stuffing like ham. After the dumplings are cooked, the dumplings peeled off at the four corners are soaked in alkaline water, crystal clear as Tian Huangshi, fragrant and fragrant, dipped in a little sugar, and taste waxy and thick. In the past, Ningbo's "tongue twister" about eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival was sung like this: "A four-corner zongzi, untied and shelled, _ chopsticks cut corners, and a sugar _, swallowed straight; Two octagonal zongzi, untied and shelled, _ chopsticks cut corners, sugar _, straight off; Although "Three Zongzi Twelve Corners" is a children's song for counting, it shows the smooth and refreshing characteristics of Ningbo Zongzi.

In the past, the jiaozi on the Dragon Boat Festival was made by housewives themselves. According to Ningbo Newsletter1May 7, 930, the Dragon Boat Festival Zongzi Competition was held in Ningbo that year. Smart women in Ningbo will gather dumplings made in advance at home for guests to watch and evaluate. The styles of zongzi are Yuanyang pillow, phoenix head, lotus boat and pomegranate, which are dazzling. Its stuffing is vegetarian, its taste is sweet and salty, and its five flavors are mixed. In the end, the lotus boat style was rated as the best. It is about a foot long and as thick as a jade arm. Mix white glutinous rice, chestnut meat, ham and shredded chicken together, wrap them in a shell, tie them with colored ropes, and weave the words "Please taste" and "Duanyang". Angular, pleasing to the eye. Boil it in water, slice it, put it in a porcelain basin and taste it all over friends and family. It is delicious. Someone wrote a poem praising the cloud: "Before peeling the shell, the teeth are still fragrant."