Top 8 Dragon Boat Festival Food

Chinese people like eating, and Chinese culture is justifiably called a food culture. They have different foods with special meanings for each festival.

For Dragon Boat Festival the Chinese usually eat zongzi and various other foods below, depending on the region.

Zongzi

It is a traditional custom for Chinese to eat zongzi, a kind of sticky rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves.

Zongzi are usually made of glutinous rice with meat or some other filling, and wrapped in bamboo leaves in the shape of a triangular pyramid. They are many different flavors and shapes of zongzi available. Read more on zongzi

Fried Cake (Jiandui)

Jiandui is a kind of fried round cake made of wheat and rice flour and something to sweeten them.

In East China's Fujian Province every family eats jiandui on Dragon Boat Festival day.

A legend explains this custom. It is said that the area enters its rainy season during Dragon Boat Festival. People believed there were holes in the sky which, if not filled, would allow the rain to continue indefinitely. Eating jiandui is said to help mend the sky and fill the holes

Eggs Steamed with Tea

It is a custom for people in Central China's Nanchang region to eat eggs boiled with tea at Dragon Boat Festival.

The shells of the boiled eggs are then dyed red, put into colorful net bags, and hung round children's necks, which is believed to bring them good luck.

Egg with Garlic

In the rural areas in Central China's Henan Province and East China's Zhejiang Province, people eat egg with garlic on Dragon Boat Festival.

Eggs are steamed with garlic and then shared with families as breakfast. Eating eggs with garlic is believed to promote health

Dagao — Glutinous Rice Cake

Glutinous rice cakes (打糕 dǎgāo) are eaten by the North Korean ethnic minority people, who live in Yanbian Prefecture in Northeast China's Jilin Province. Served with honey or sugar, it tastes delicious and chewy

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