In addition to the important traditional customs, there is also a widely spread custom on March 3, called "boiled eggs with shepherd's purse on March 3". Shepherd's purse is also commonly known as the local dish. Rural proverbs call eating shepherd's purse on March 3 rd: eating shepherd's purse and boiling eggs on March 3 rd will be trampled, which means you will become stronger and stronger.
It is said that during the Three Kingdoms period, due to years of wars and disputes, people lived in poverty and diseases became the norm. One day, Hua Tuo passed by a village. Because of years of war, people in this village got headaches inexplicably, and no matter what medicine they took, it didn't work.
Hua tuo arranged for everyone to pick a wild vegetable in the field and cook it with eggs. Strangely, after eating this wild vegetable and boiled eggs, all the headaches of the villagers were cured. This wild vegetable is shepherd's purse. Huatuo came on the third day of the third lunar month, so the custom of eating shepherd's purse and boiling eggs on the third of March has been preserved to this day.
How to cook eggs with shepherd's purse: 1. Wash the fresh eggs and cook them in a pot. Pour the boiled eggs into cold water and knock them out. Second, spread a layer of shepherd's purse on the bottom of the pot, bend the shepherd's purse into the shape of a bird's nest, then put cracked eggs on it and spread a layer of shepherd's purse.
Third, add water, and then eat it when the fire is boiling. You can also add a little red dates, medlar, lotus seeds, longan and other items to enhance the taste. Another custom is that you can't put salt. It is said that cooking eggs with salt will lose nutrition and lose its proper function.