1, creature

Some of jiaozi are shaped like gold ingots, while others are shaped like ears. On this day, dragons look up and eat jiaozi, which is called "eating dragon ears". "It's better to stand upside down than to be comfortable, and it's better to eat in jiaozi". On the day when the dragon looks up, we should pay attention to eating "jiaozi with a vegetarian diet", that is, taking the homonym of "vegetarian diet" as "wealth" to convey the message that the new year will be rich.

2. Fried oil cake

In some areas such as Tianjin, people have the custom of eating fried cakes during the Spring Festival, which is called "eating gentian". The fried cake is golden in color, which makes Gentiana macrophylla very vivid. The practice is to grind millet into yellow rice, and then grind yellow rice into flour, which is yellow wheat. Yellow rice cake made of yellow wheat has four characteristics: yellow, soft, thick and fragrant. There are two ways to eat, one is vegetarian cake and the other is fried cake.

3. Spring pancake

On that day in beginning of spring, we paid attention to eating spring cakes, but on February 2nd, we also paid attention to eating spring cakes. Eating spring cakes in beginning of spring is called "biting spring", and eating spring cakes on February 2nd is called biting "Longlin", which is named because the shape of spring cakes is round and thin like scales. The custom of eating spring cakes on February 2nd originated from the Qing Dynasty, which involved meat such as sauced elbows, pig heads, tea ducks and vegetables such as leeks, radishes and bean sprouts.

Step 4 scroll around

People always like to buy "snowballing usury" on the second day of the second lunar month. The bean powder stuffed with bean paste snowballs, which is round in shape and has the auspicious meaning of "rolling financial resources".

5. A flag

On the second day of the second lunar month, Zibo people have the traditional custom of eating fried noodles and flags. The so-called flag is a piece of dough cut into diamonds, 3-2 cm long and 3-2 cm wide. The dried noodle flag is heated and fried with clay to make fried noodle flag.

6. Noodles

Northerners like to eat a bowl of "Longxu Noodles" on February 2nd to win good prizes. Longxu Noodles evolved from Lamian Noodles, a Shandong hand. Lamian Noodles is as thin as a hair, and boiling water is like a silver dragon entering the sea, hence its name. According to legend, there was a chef in the imperial chef of the Ming Dynasty. On that day in beginning of spring, he made a noodle as thin as hair, just like a dragon beard. The emperor had a big appetite, was very happy and full of praise. From then on, this fried fine point has become a very fashionable snack. The February eclipse in Longxu Noodles has a beautiful meaning of "smooth and smooth, smooth and smooth".