1, spiced board (spring board)
Spring plate is one of the food customs in beginning of spring, also known as "spiced plate", which is made by finely cutting five kinds of spicy lettuce. It is reported that eating five kinds of spices (five kinds of spices: garlic, leek, mustard and coriander) on the first day of the Six Dynasties made people angry after eating them in spring. Now Yangzhou people also eat five kinds of condiments in spring: fresh onion, leek, garlic sprout, radish and coriander. In the early Tang dynasty, cakes and lettuce were put on a plate, which was called spring plate. They are also called Pan Xin because of their relationship with the Five-Heart Disc. In the Song Dynasty, they were called spring cakes, and now they are also called pancakes, lotus leaf cakes and chip cakes.
2. Spring plate
Spring Festival is one of the eating customs at the beginning of spring. Lettuce, melon, fruit, cake and sugar are mainly taken out from vegetables and put on plates to feed relatives and friends or eat for the Spring Festival. There are five kinds of dishes: fruit, vegetables, candy, cake and bait. Vegetables mainly include: bean sprouts, radishes, leeks, spinach, lettuce, beans, eggs and shredded potatoes. Du Fu's "beginning of spring": "In spring, the lettuce in the spring vegetables is fine, and I suddenly think of the time when Beijing plum blossoms."
3. Spring disc
The "Spring Cuisine" in Yuan Dynasty consists of more than ten kinds of raw materials, such as noodles, mutton, tripe and lung, egg pancakes, ginger, mushrooms, hot pepper buds and rouge. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, besides cakes and lettuce, they also ate radishes, indicating that they could get rid of the spring sleep. The whole new tasting activity is called "Biting Spring".
4. Tian Ai
Yellow is a common seasonal food in spring. Everything revives in spring, and the grass grows and the warblers fly. This is the heyday of Tian Ai's growth in the field of spring ploughing. Tian Ai is about 65,438+00 cm tall, with pink leaves, white flowers in the middle and green hairs all over. According to "Edible Materia Medica", Tian Ai has the functions of eliminating dampness, warming stomach and clearing intestines. Tian Ai is also a festival to pay tribute to God and pray for good weather.
5. Spring rolls
Spring rolls, also known as spring cakes and pancakes, are popular traditional snacks in Fuzhou with a long history and evolved from ancient spring cakes. Eating spring rolls at the beginning of spring is an ancient custom in China, which means welcoming spring and expecting a bumper harvest. The earliest record is biting spring and eating spring cakes. People in beginning of spring should eat some fresh vegetables on this day, not only to prevent diseases, but also to welcome the Spring Festival. Tang's "Four Seasons Baojing" records: "beginning of spring eats reed, spring cake and lettuce, and there is no' dish'." It can be seen that people in the Tang Dynasty have begun to try spring vegetables and eat spring cakes. The so-called spring cake, also called lotus leaf cake, is actually a kind of pancake with hot soup noodles-two small pieces of water with oil in the middle are put together to make pancakes, which can be peeled into two pieces after cooking to roll vegetables.
6. Bite spring (eat radish)
In many places, beginning of spring is also called "biting spring". In the early spring in the north, the most representative food is radish. Eating radish can be divided into many forms, such as chewing, slicing, shredding, stuffing and so on. Liu Ruoyu, an Amin scholar, recorded in The History of the Ming Dynasty: By the next day in beginning of spring, all people, regardless of rank, were chewing radish, which was called "biting spring"; In the Qing Dynasty, "Yanjing Nianji" recorded that women and others bought more radishes to eat, saying that they could be sleepy in spring. Eating radish can not only alleviate the spring sleep, but also enhance women's reproductive function. Beginning of spring radish is also called "offspring radish".
7. Simmer in spring
Mainly popular in Wenzhou and other southern regions, it can represent the food characteristics of the Spring Festival in the south of the Qing Dynasty. The so-called simmering spring is to burn spring tea. At first, people chopped the pig weight, mixed it with white beans or black beans, and cooked it with tea. Later, red beans, red dates, oranges, osmanthus, brown sugar and tea were cooked together. This is spring tea. This kind of tea is specially used for the Spring Festival, and the locals call it simmering spring. When simmering in spring, you should also eat some cakes and snacks at the same time. At that time, it was often necessary to worship the ancestors of the six gods at home first, and then the whole family enjoyed it together. The benefits of simmering spring are said to improve eyesight and intelligence, and it also has the meaning of wealth. Therefore, the activity of simmering spring is widely circulated among the people.
8. stir-fry vegetables
And vegetables are what we call seasonal vegetables today. People will cut seasonal vegetables, such as leeks and bean sprouts, into filaments at the beginning of the spring solar term and fry cooked food. Specific steps: put shredded pork, shredded egg skin, mung bean sprouts, dried bean curd, vermicelli, spinach or leek into a pot and fry until cooked. Note that you can add shredded sea cucumber, shredded belly, shredded mushroom and shredded ham, which will taste better and be more nutritious.