Spring cakes are called "Long Lin" on this day. Eating spring cakes is called "eating Long Lin". A spring cake bigger than the palm of your hand is like a piece of Long Lin.
Spring cakes are tough and contain many dishes. Such as braised pork, elbow, smoked chicken, braised duck, etc., are cut into filaments with a knife, mixed with several kinds of home-cooked dishes such as fried leek sprouts with shredded pork, fried spinach with shredded pork, green bean sprouts cooked with vinegar, vegetarian fried vermicelli, and scrambled eggs, and rolled into spring cakes, dipped in shredded onion and flour paste with sesame oil, which is delicious and refreshing.
2. Pig head meat
This is also related to a long-standing story. After pacifying Bashu, Wang Zhongling was very hungry, so he broke into a small village temple, but he met a drunken monk. Wang Zhongling was furious and wanted to cut it. Unexpectedly, the monk was completely fearless. Wang Zhongling was very strange and turned to him for food. Soon the monk offered a plate of "steamed pig's head" and wrote poems for it.
Wang Zhongling ate steamed pig's head and was very happy to listen to the funny and unique "pig's head poem", so he named the monk "Purple Clothes Master".
3. Mustard rice
Eating mustard rice on the second day of the second lunar month is a popular custom in Wenzhou, and there is a saying that eating mustard rice will not cause scabies.
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Holiday customs:
1, put on the dragon light
The Yellow River Delta and some areas along the river also have the custom of "putting dragon lanterns". Many people use reeds or straw to make boats, insert candles or put small oil bowls dug with radishes, and put them in the river or bay to light them in the evening to light the way for dragons. Take this opportunity to entertain and convey a good wish at the same time. ?
2. Knock on the tap
On the morning of February 2, some parts of Northeast China hit the beams with long poles, which is called "knocking on the tap". Wake up the dragon and save one side. Adults and children still read: "On February 2nd, the dragon looked up, the big warehouse was full, and the small warehouse flowed. "In some places, big circles are scattered with kitchen ashes in the yard, and the whole grains are placed in the middle, which is called" hoarding "or" filling the warehouse ".I wish the grain harvest and the warehouse full.
3, around the grain hoard
It is widely circulated in northern China that "on February 2, the dragon looked up; A big warehouse is full, and a small warehouse flows. On the morning of the second day of the second lunar month, villagers in many northern areas got up early. Housewives took out a basket of firewood from under their own cookstoves and the rest of plant ash, took a small shovel and shoveled some plant ash. People walked by hand and drew circles on the ground.
People's Daily Online-What does the dragon look up to "win the lottery" on February 2?
Baidu Encyclopedia-Longtaitou