February 2 is also very particular about diet. The diet of this day is mostly in the name of dragons. Eating spring cakes is called "eating Longlin", eating noodles is called "supporting dragon whiskers", eating rice is called "eating dragon seeds", eating wonton is called "eating longan" and eating jiaozi is called "eating dragon ears". All this is to wake up the Dragon King and pray for a good year and a good harvest.
Of course, different regions have different foods, but eating spring cakes is a common custom. It is recorded in the Minutes of Proceedings of the Ming Dynasty: "On the second day of February, the family used millet flour and jujube cakes, fried them, or spread them on white flour to make pancakes, which were called' smoked insects'".
4. Holding the dragon's head up is also called "Spring Farming Festival", "Farming Festival" and "Spring Dragon Festival", which is a traditional folk festival of Han nationality. The dragon heads up on the second day of the second lunar month every year, commonly known as the Qinglong Festival. Legend has it that this is the day when dragons look up. This is a traditional festival in China. People celebrate the "Dragon Head Festival" to show respect for the dragon, pray for rain and let God bless the harvest.
5. February 2 is the most revered god. The dishes on February 2 are all stained with the dragon god: round pills cooked with noodles and sugar are called dragon eggs; This kind of cake is called Longlin cake, and the noodles are called Longxu Noodles. Rice is longan; Jiaozi is a dragon tooth; Wonton is a dragon ear; Pancakes are dragon skins; Sticky cake is dragon waist; Eat a pig's head and look up for the dragon. The food you eat every day should also be called lewd, such as tofu called doufu, mustard tuber called borrowing money and so on.
6. February 2 nd Spring Cake is a kind of snack, also called pancake, which is a kind of pancake. Its main raw materials are flour, shredded lean meat, shredded carrot and fungus. Shredded carrot contains vitamin A, and shredded lean meat is rich in protein and iron. Spring cakes on February 2nd contain a lot of nutrients such as protein and vitamins, which are crisp and nutritious, greatly increasing people's appetite.