2. The custom of eating spring vegetables has been passed down to this day, but the content of spring vegetables has changed greatly, and it has become the Spring Festival seasonal dishes such as leeks, bean sprouts and coriander, with shredded pork and tofu, and raw materials such as sea cucumber, mushrooms and shredded chicken can be added as appropriate, which varies from person to person and can be matched at will.
On this day in beginning of spring, people still have the custom of eating spring cakes. The original spring cake is a kind of pancake baked or steamed with flour. When eating, it is often eaten with bean sprouts, spinach, leeks, vermicelli and other stir-fried dishes, or with spring cake cabbage. Legend has it that eating spring cakes and all kinds of vegetables wrapped in them will make farm animals flourish. Some areas think that eating spring cakes wrapped in celery and leeks will make people more diligent and live longer.
Besides spring cakes, spring rolls are also a kind of holiday food that Japanese people often eat at the beginning of spring. This kind of food is fried in thin leather bags. The specific production method is as follows: mix some flour into paste, put it on a frying pan, slowly burn it with low fire, and turn the frying pan from time to time to make a spring roll skin as thin as cicada's wings, then wrap it with stuffing, roll it into a long tube about two inches long, stick batter on both ends, and fry it in oil slick until it is crisp outside and tender inside, with good color and fragrance. Wheat flour is generally used for spring roll skin, and egg skin and tofu skin are also useful.
As for stuffing, there are two schools: North and South. Chinese chives, bean sprouts and shredded pork are used in the north, and Chinese cabbage, shredded pork, shredded shrimp, dried rice, celery, red bean paste and fruit are used in the south.
6. As a traditional food culture, biting spring and tasting spring were originally an inseparable part of the beginning of the Spring Festival custom. However, this festival custom has faded a lot now, and even many young people don't know this custom. Nowadays, people eat noodles and jiaozi instead of spring plates, spring cakes and spring rolls to welcome the arrival of spring. Therefore, there is a saying among the people that "jiaozi welcomes the spring and plays spring noodles".