The traditional foods eaten in the north and south in the spring are: dumplings, spring rolls, eggs, turnip soup, spring pancakes and so on.

1, dumplings

Dumplings (dumpling) from the ancient Chinese horn, formerly known as "Jiao Er", the traditional Han Chinese noodle dishes, has a history of more than 1,800 years. It was invented by Zhang Zhongjing, a native of Nanyang Niyang (present-day Dengzhou, Nanyang, Henan Province) in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and was initially used for medicinal purposes.

2, spring rolls

Spring rolls are a traditional food for Chinese folk festivals, popular in all parts of China, and especially prevalent in places such as Jiangnan. In southern China, instead of eating dumplings, spring rolls and sesame dumplings are eaten during the Spring Festival. And in the Zhangzhou area, spring rolls are also eaten at the time of the Qingming Festival, the folk in addition to their own family food, often used in hospitality.

3, eggs

An egg contains calories equivalent to half an apple or half a cup of milk, but it also has the body's daily requirements of 8% phosphorus, 4% zinc, 4% iron, 12.6% protein, 6% vitamin D, 3% vitamin E, 6% vitamin A, 2% vitamin B, 5% vitamin B2, 4% vitamin B6.

4, turnip soup

Turnip soup is a home-cooked dietary supplement soup, the main ingredient is white radish. Common turnip soup has white jade scallop soup, mutton and turnip soup, pork ribs, seaweed and turnip soup, shrimp and turnip soup with vermicelli, turnip and scallion soup and so on.

5, spring cake

Eating spring cake is one of the Chinese folk spring dietary customs. In some areas (Northeast, North China and other regions) in the spring there is the custom of eating spring cake, spring cake is a flour branded pancake, usually to roll vegetables and food.