1. In the Spring Festival, it is customary to eat radish, ginger, green onion, and noodle cake, which is called "biting spring".
2, the custom of eating spring plate has been handed down to the present day, but the content of the spring plate has undergone a greater change, becoming mainly green leeks, bean sprouts, parsley and other spring seasonal vegetables, plus shredded meat, shredded tofu, etc., stir-fried into a plate, but also discretionary addition of sea cucumbers, mushrooms, shredded chicken and other raw materials, according to the person, with random.
3, the day of spring, the folk have the custom of eating spring cake. Initially, the spring pancake is made of flour branded or steamed into a pancake, eat, often with bean sprouts, spinach, leeks, chives, vermicelli, etc. fried together, or spring pancake wrapped in vegetables to eat. Legend has it that eating the spring cake and a variety of vegetables wrapped in it, will make the agricultural seedlings thrive, six animals thrive. Some regions believe that eating the spring cake wrapped rolled celery, leeks, will make people more diligent (celery) labor, life is more long (leek).
4, in addition to spring pancakes, spring rolls is also a festive food often eaten on the day of spring. This food is a thin crust filled, deep-fried and made. Its specific production methods: flour and paste, put some in the bottom of the pan, burn with the fire, rotate the pan, made of thin as a cicada wing spring rolls skin, and then wrapped with filling, rolled into a long tube about two inches long, the ends to the batter to stick to the floating oil to fry to the outside of the burnt, tender, color and flavor. Spring roll skin is generally used wheat flour, but also with egg skin, tofu skin.
5, as for the filling is divided into north and south, the north more leeks, bean sprouts, shredded meat, etc., while the south of the Yangtze River is more cabbage, shredded meat, shredded shrimp, seaweed, celery, bean curd, fruits and so on.
6, bite spring and taste spring as a traditional food culture, was originally the Spring Festival celebrations in the custom of an integral part. However, now this festive custom has been diluted a lot, and even many young people are no longer aware of this custom. Now, people eat more noodles and dumplings instead of eating spring plate, spring cake, spring rolls, to meet the arrival of spring, so the folk widely circulated "spring dumplings playing spring noodles".