The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, is a traditional folk festival in China. At this time the weather is getting hot, mosquitoes fly breeding, so the people also called the Dragon Boat Festival in May "health month", therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival has also become a national epidemic prevention and dispel diseases, avoid plague and poison, pray for health and longevity festival.

　　The custom of solar terms contains health care knowledge

　　Dragon Boat Festival season is a time of the year to the peak of Yang qi, the weather is depressed, such as work pressure, the human body physiological qi and blood operation is not smooth, easy to produce agitated and depressed phenomenon. Changes in mood can also affect the functions of the internal organs, leading to mental disorders such as sadness, anger, liver and spleen. At this time health, should make spleen and stomach heart and lung qi regulation. In order to spend the summer day, folk in the Dragon Boat Festival day, in addition to collecting some herbs hanging, wearing, purification, take, also choose some food with higher medicinal value, so as to avoid poison and dispel evil, disease prevention and fitness.

　　People have the custom of eating zongzi and inserting fresh mugwort on the Dragon Boat Festival. These are not only related to customs, but also closely related to health care. Mugwort has a special fragrance, is a common Chinese medicine, with heat and detoxification, dehumidification and antipruritic effects. Dragon Boat Festival season moist air, and mugwort fragrant fresh, can dispel poison gas, defilement, purify the air.

　　In traditional Chinese medicine, wrapped dumplings reed leaves and lotus leaves are good medicine, glutinous rice is also beneficial qi sheng jin, heat effect, eating dumplings at this time, is the same source of medicine "medicine".

　　Eating zongzi: three big mistakes

　　Eat dumplings have three major taboo: a taboo not cooked to eat first, two bogey preservation too long, three bogey eat a lot.

　　Because most of the dumplings are made of glutinous rice, high viscosity, not easy to digest, and lack of fiber quality, containing too much fat, salt, sugar. Especially should pay attention to is: before and after the festival eat rice dumplings, or eat rice dumplings forget other kinds of food intake, such easy indigestion, gastrointestinal discomfort. Eat dumplings with a bowl of light soup, such as winter gourd, bamboo shoots, towel gourd soup, finally to a fruit, can increase the fiber intake, achieve a balanced nutrition.

　　Choose fresh dumplings. If cannot refrigerate after buying, should eat in time. Cooling bulk dumplings to buy home, it is best to cook again after eating, especially must be boiled in boiling water to cook through, so as to eat safely. For a while did not finish the dumplings, must be timely put into the refrigerator, do not put out for a long time, once found to have mildew or smell, do not eat.