Eat spring cakes, spring plates, spring rolls, white radish, and spring tea at the beginning of spring.

1. Spring cakes

Eating spring cakes at the beginning of spring is a dietary custom in many places. Spring pancake, also called lotus leaf pancake, is a thin pancake made with flour. Two small pieces of water are greased with oil in the middle, stacked together and rolled into a thin pancake. When cooked, open into two pieces. Spring cakes are used to wrap vegetables, which are vegetables or home-cooked side dishes prepared by people, such as fried shredded pork with bean sprouts or leeks, fried vegetarian vermicelli, fried mung bean sprouts, etc.

Eating spring pancakes to wrap these vegetables and eat them from beginning to end is called "head and tail", which means auspiciousness. These vegetables used to make spring cake fillings are also called combined vegetables. This kind of vegetables is an essential dish on the first day of spring. Eating spring cakes at the beginning of spring also means welcoming the spring and praying for a good harvest.

2. Spring Plate

Spring Plate, also known as "Five-Spicy Plate", is made of onions, leeks, garlic, ginger, artemisia and other lettuces cut into shreds and put into a plate. It can be used as a snack or as a gift for relatives and friends.

3. Spring rolls

Spring rolls are also a seasonal food that people often eat at the beginning of spring. Eating spring rolls at the beginning of spring is also called "biting spring". The preparation of spring rolls is similar to that of spring pancakes, but spring pancakes are rolled and eaten directly, while spring rolls are stuffed with thin pancake skin and rolled into a tube shape about two inches long, wrapped with both ends, and fried in a pan until crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. , remove and drain the oil before eating.

4. White radish

In many places in our country, there is a saying that the beginning of spring "bites the spring". At the beginning of spring in the north, the most representative food is white radish, which can be eaten, shredded, sliced, and stuffed. Why eat radishes? A more common saying is that it can relieve spring sleepiness.

5. Spring tea

Eating spring tea at the beginning of spring, also called "simmering spring", is mainly popular in Wenzhou, Zhejiang. Tea here does not refer to tea leaves. The earliest method was to chop a grapefruit into pieces, mix it with black beans or white beans, cook it with tea and drink it. Later, red beans, osmanthus, citrus, osmanthus, etc. were simmered with brown sugar until they were thoroughly cooked. , called "Simmering Spring".

Before drinking spring tea, you should first respect your ancestors and then share the food with your family. In the local dialect, bean is the same as da, tangerine is the same as official, tangerine is the same as auspicious, and cinnamon is the same as noble. Folks believe that drinking spring tea can lead to promotion and wealth, which means good luck and wealth.