The traditional food eaten in the north in spring is spring plate and spring cake.

Chunpan, also known as "five spicy dishes", is made of finely sliced five kinds of spicy lettuce on a plate. This custom has been passed down to the Tang, Song, Jin and Yuan dynasties. Ningjin area with green onions, garlic, pepper, ginger, mustard cut and seasoned food, known as the five Xin plate, it can be wine with meals, but also as a gift to each other. Spring Plate is actually quite simple, it is a platter of mainly cold vegetables. In ancient times, every lunar spring, the south of the family usually lettuce, fresh fruit and cake bait and other collocation plate to eat, while the northern folk will be more onions, garlic, leeks, mustard and other pungent vegetables and eat, all take the meaning of welcoming the new.

In Shandong, also known as pancakes, lotus leaf cake, on the banquet can be eaten with roast duck, the next can roll onions, smeared with pasta sauce, and the people's daily life, most of the cake in the "general products", loved by the public. Onion flavor, spicy, for one of the five spices, spring pancakes to five spices with food, which is the ancient spring diet of the legacy of customs. Spring rolls have become a global food today, and where there are Chinese restaurants, there are spring rolls.

Events of the Spring Festival

Pasting the Spring Cow

Pasting the Spring Cow This customary activity begins before the spring, according to the traditional method, the county government (county office) to hire the paper machete master craftsmen, in the spring before the county party, elaborate images of the spring cow. Generally tied with bamboo gabions into the skeleton of the cow, with the spring wood to do legs, and then paste the paper, paint, a cow image on the production of success. Commonly known as the paste on the red and yellow paper more, that year on the harvest, paste on the black paper, that year's harvest is not good. So the county arranged to use more red and yellow paper, in order to win the hearts of the people. After the spring cow paste, held a ceremony to open the eyes, that is, to set up incense, worship.

Playing spring cattle

Whip spring that is playing spring cattle, also known as "whip spring cattle" "whip soil cattle", the spring will be clay spring cattle broken, which is the era of agrarian civilization of the legacy. By playing the custom of spring bull, remind farmers, spring has come, should not violate the agricultural time, timely sowing grain, pray for a year of grain harvest, the country and the people in peace. Whip spring custom and pray for a good harvest, is a more ancient custom. There are made of mulberry wood as the skeleton of the spring cow, is dedicated to "playing spring cow" customary activities with the "cow".