Beginning of spring eats spring cakes, spring plates, spring rolls and spring tea.

Eating spring cakes at the beginning of spring is a dietary habit in many places. Spring cakes, also called lotus leaf cakes, are used to roll vegetables, which are vegetables or home-cooked dishes prepared by people. Eating spring cakes, wrapping up the dishes and eating them from beginning to end, is called "having a head and a tail", which means good luck. The dish for filling spring cakes, also called "Hecai", is an essential dish in beginning of spring. Eating spring cakes in beginning of spring also means welcoming spring and praying for a bumper harvest.

Spring plate, also known as "spiced plate", is a dish in which lettuce such as onion, leek, garlic, ginger and Artemisia selengensis are shredded, which can be used as an appetizer or as a gift for relatives and friends. Spring rolls are also a seasonal food that Japanese people often eat at the beginning of spring. Eating spring rolls in beginning of spring is also called "biting spring".

Beginning of spring eats spring tea, also called "simmering spring", which is mainly popular in Wenzhou, Zhejiang. In the local dialect, "bean" is homophonic with "big", "orange" is homophonic with "official", "orange" is homophonic with "auspicious" and "laurel" is homophonic with "expensive". People think that eating spring tea can make a fortune, which means good luck and wealth.

The origin of solar terms

Beginning of spring, the first of the 24 solar terms, is also known as the first month festival, New Year's Day, New Year's Day and New Year's Day. Standing means "beginning", and spring represents warmth and growth. In nature, the most striking feature of beginning of spring is that everything is beginning to show signs of recovery. Beginning of spring is the beginning of all things and the meaning of all self-renewal, which means that a new cycle has begun.

Beginning of spring is the beginning of spring, and the time sequence enters spring. At this time, although it is still chilly in spring, the cold winter has passed, spring has returned to the earth, everything has recovered, and nature is full of vitality. Therefore, the ancients attached great importance to the beginning of spring, and there was a tool to welcome spring in ancient times. Twenty-four solar terms are the product of ancient farming civilization, which occupies an extremely important position in China's traditional farming society.