These are the most common ways to eat Chinese food.
Eating spring pancakes is called "eating dragon scales" is very graphic, a spring pancake larger than the palm of the hand is like a piece of dragon scale. Spring cake has toughness, rolled inside many dishes. Such as soy sauce meat, elbow, smoked chicken, soy sauce duck, etc., cut into thin shreds with a knife, with several kinds of home-style fried vegetables such as shredded pork fried leeks and sprouts, shredded pork fried spinach, mung bean sprouts cooked in vinegar, veggie fried vermicelli, spreading eggs, etc., rolled into the spring pancake, dipped in thinly shredded green onions and drizzled with sesame oil to eat the noodle sauce, it is really fragrant and refreshing. When eating spring pancakes, the whole family sits together, put the branded spring pancakes in the steamer, eat as you take, hot, happy.
The second day of February to eat popcorn has a legend.
According to legend, when Wu Zetian became emperor, the Jade Emperor ordered that rain would not be allowed to fall on earth for three years. However, the Jade Dragon, who was in charge of the Heavenly River, could not bear to see the people suffer and starve, and secretly sent down a heavy rain, and when the Jade Emperor learned of this, he knocked the Jade Dragon down from the Heavenly Palace and pressed it under a big mountain. A monument was erected under the mountain, which reads: "The Dragon King violated the rules of heaven by sending down rain, and was subjected to a thousand sins on earth. If you want to climb back up to the heavenly palace, unless when the golden bean blossoms." In order to save the Dragon King, people searched everywhere for the blossoming golden beans. To the second day of February of the next year, people are turning the golden corn seeds, suddenly remembered, this corn is like gold beans, fried flowers, is not the golden bean blossom? So every family popcorn, and set up in the yard burning incense, for the "blossom of the golden beans", specifically for the Dragon King and the Jade Emperor to see. The dragon king knew that this is the people in the rescue it, shouted to the Jade Emperor: "Golden beans bloom, let me out!" The Jade Emperor took a look at the golden bean blossoms opening in every yard on earth, and had to summon the Dragon King back to the Heavenly Court to continue to raise clouds and spread rain on earth. Since then, the folk formed a custom, every February 2 this day, people popping corn flower, there are also fried soybean.
The second day of February to eat pig's head meat also has a saying.
Since ancient times, offerings to the gods always use pigs, cows and sheep three animals, and later simplified for the head of the three animals, the pig's head is one of them. According to the Song Dynasty "Qiu Chi notes" recorded a story: Wang Zhongling after the pacification of Sichuan, very hungry, so broke into a small temple in the countryside, but met a drunken monk, Wang Zhongling angry, want to be chopped up, I know that the monk did not fear, Wang Zhongling is very strange, turn to him to ask for food, not long after the monk offered a plate of "steamed pig's head", the monk said, "the head of the pig is one of the three animals. "Steamed pig's head" and wrote a poem about it: "The mouth is long and hairy and shallow with fat, long to the mountains to eat medicine seedlings. Steam has been wrapped in banana leaves, cooked with apricot paddle water. Red and fresh is elegantly called gold plate Ting, ripe and soft can really be jade chopsticks pick. If there is no hairy root to compare, the felt root is the same as the vine." Wang Zhongling ate steamed pig's head, listening to the funny and chic "pig's head poem" is very happy, so, the monk was named "Purple Venerable Master". It seems that the pig's head is really a delicacy, and is also a good luck sign to turn a crisis into a peaceful and prosperous future. Today there is a famous dish called "grilled pig face", after the selection of materials, cleaning, spray roasting, washing and soaking, soy sauce and other twelve steps, after more than ten hours of cooking, to be served on the table. There are three kinds of "grilled pig face", one is eaten in its original flavor; the second is dipped in sauce; the third is rolled pancakes to eat. Each way of eating has a different flavor. "Pork face" is fat but not greasy, meat and bones are separated, sticky and delicious, and it brings beauty and brain-health effects to modern people. "February 2" to eat modern "grilled pig face", recalling the ancient history of food and drink, is really a perfect experience of contemporary and historical blend.