The custom of springing is to eat radish, spring plate and spring cake.

On the day of the first day of spring, it is customary in China to "bite the spring". Biting spring means chewing radish, eating spring plate and spring cake. Since about the Six Dynasties, people have been eating radish, new leeks, spring pancakes, lettuce, etc. on the day of spring, known as "spring plate". Beijing in the Ming Dynasty on the day of spring not only to hold a grand ceremony to welcome the spring, and the emperor in the afternoon door "give hundred officials spring cake", regardless of noble and lowly are chewing radish, known as "bite spring".

Cake and lettuce to plate, known as the spring plate. This custom and the six dynasties on New Year's Day to eat five Xin plate (i.e., in the plate with five kinds of spicy vegetables, eaten as a cold dish) also has a certain connection, so the family plate is also known as Xin plate, five Xin plate. Wuxin plate in the five Xin refers to garlic, garlic, leeks, chives, small greens, cilantro five kinds of vegetables, food to send the five organs of Qi.

Climate change

Lichun is one of the important traditional festivals of the Han Chinese folk. The word "Lichun" means "beginning", and since the Qin Dynasty, China has been using Lichun as the beginning of spring. Lichun is divided from the astronomical, spring is warm, birds and flowers; spring is growth, plowing and sowing. The period from the day of the spring festival until the beginning of summer is called spring.

The so-called "a year in the spring", since ancient times, spring is a major holiday, called Spring Festival to the Republic of China was renamed. China from the official to the people are extremely important, the day of spring to welcome spring has been more than three thousand years of history. At the beginning of spring, the Son of Heaven personally led the three dukes, nine ministers and lords to the eastern suburbs to welcome spring and pray for a good harvest. After returning, to reward the ministers, cloth Germany order to benefit the people. This kind of activity affected the common people, making it a universal spring event for generations to come.