This festival generally eat spring cake, spring plate, spring rolls, radish and simmering spring.

1, spring cake

Eating spring cake on the first day of spring has the meaning of welcoming spring and praying for a good harvest. In some areas in the spring there is a custom to eat spring cake, the northeast and Beijing area of the spring cake taste most delicious. Legend has it that the spring cake, as a traditional snack in Chaozhou, is evolved from the ancient folk snacks in Chaozhou to be proved. Spring cake is a flour pancake, usually rolled vegetables and eaten.

2, spring plate

Spring plate, also known as the "five Xin plate", is a fine cut of five kinds of spicy lettuce plate and become. The Compendium of Materia Medica" said: "five Xin dish, is the new year's day, the spring to onions, garlic, leeks, polygonum, mustard pungent and tender vegetables and eat, take the meaning of welcoming the new." This custom spread to the Tang, Song, Jin, Yuan. For example, the yuan dynasty yelu chuzai have "spring day stage made poor spring plate" poem, which said with lotus root, peas, green onions, greed artemisia, leeks and vermicelli for spring plate.

3, spring rolls

Spring rolls, also known as spring cake, spring plate, pancakes. It is a traditional food for Chinese folk festivals. Popular in all parts of China, especially prevalent in Jiangnan and other places. In southern China, the Spring Festival does not eat dumplings, eat spring rolls and sesame dumplings. Folk in addition to their own family to eat, commonly used in hospitality. Spring rolls have a long history, evolved from the ancient spring cake.

4, radish

In many places, the spring is also called "bite spring". The most representative food in the north is radish, eating radish can be divided into gnawing, slicing, shredding, stuffing and other forms. Northern people love to eat raw radish, especially in the heart of the United States and small carrots for the best.

5, simmering spring

The so-called simmering spring, is to burn food spring tea. At first, people are Zhu Luan chopped, mixed with white beans or black beans, with tea with water to cook food. Later, it was changed to use red beans, jujubes, mandarin oranges, cinnamon, brown sugar and tea together with the water to cook. This is the spring tea. This tea is designed for the Spring Festival to eat, the local people called simmering spring. Simmering spring, but also at the same time to eat some cakes and other refreshments.