The food eaten in the spring:

1, the custom of spring eating spring cake originated in the Tang Dynasty, also known as the "bite spring". Spring, spring, everything is recovering, a variety of vegetables send out shoots, people taste fresh, the ancients will use the dough wrapped in seasonal vegetables, rolled into a roll steamed or fried, named spring cake, implying a bumper crop, but also a symbol of spring, and will be given to each other, take the meaning of welcoming the spring;

2, spring rolls are also the day of the Spring Festival is often eaten by people a kind of festive food. This food is a thin crust filled, deep-fried and made. Spring rolls skin with wheat flour, but also with egg skin, tofu skin. As for the filling is divided into the 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 paste, fruits, etc.;

3, leeks, also known as the "rising sun grass", warm, have the role of the kidneys and yang. Spring climate warm and cold, it is recommended that people to spring may wish to eat some spring leeks, to dispel yin dispersal of cold. Moreover, in spring, the human body liver Qi is strong, affecting the spleen and stomach digestion and absorption function. Eat more spring leeks can enhance the spleen and stomach qi, beneficial liver function;

4, spinach: in the many vegetables, suitable for liver health on spinach. Spinach for the spring seasonal vegetables, with nourishing Yin and dry, liver and blood and other functions. Extremely common so common, spinach is just a kind of "vegetable in the ordinary". As a common product spinach eating method is a lot of, cooking porridge is a common way. Spring health available spinach to porridge;

5, fennel: fennel is rich in vitamins B1, B2, C, PP, carotene, and cellulose, leading to it has a special pungent smell of fennel oil, which can stimulate the gastrointestinal neurovascular, with the effect of stomach and qi, so it is the perfect vegetable with meat and fat.

Lichun's preoccupation: On the day of "Lichun", there is a long history of commemorative activities, at least 3,000 years ago, has already appeared. At that time, Jumang, also known as Mang Shen, was the god of spring in charge of agriculture. Jumang was the god of spring, i.e., the god of grass and trees and the god of life. The image of Jumang is a man with a bird's body and a human face, and he is in charge of rules and regulations, and is in charge of spring affairs. In the Zhou Dynasty, there was an East Hall to welcome the spring, indicating that the sacrifice of Jumang has a long history.

Whip spring cattle: also known as whip cattle, the origin of the earlier, and then has been preserved, but changed in the spring, prevalent in the Tang and Song dynasties, especially the Song Renzong promulgated the "soil cattle scripture" after the whip cattle custom spread more widely, as an important element of folk culture.

Biting spring: springtime has its own food, mainly spring cake, radish, five Xin plate, etc., every spring world, there are a lot of vendors selling spring rolls in the market. Here are two points worth noting: one is the past that bite spring is to eat radish, in fact, also includes eating spring cake; two is the so-called discuss spring is to welcome the meaning of spring. Why eat radish? The more common saying is that it can solve the spring sleepiness.