There are many customary foods that can be eaten on the spring equinox, the most common of which are: spring vegetables, radishes, donkey rolls, sun cakes, and Peking duck.

1, spring vegetables

The Xie surname of Kaiping Cangcheng Town in the former Siyi, there is a custom that is not a festival, called the spring equinox to eat spring vegetables. Spring vegetables is a kind of wild amaranth, the townspeople called spring artemisia. On the day of the spring equinox, the whole village went to pick spring vegetables. When searching in the field, most of them are young and green, fine trees, about as long as the palm of the hand.

2, radish

Yangzhou people also have a spring equinox eat radish or radish filling buns, spring rolls custom. This time to eat radish can not only up and down the ventilation, but also play a disease, the effect of spring fever.

3, donkey roll

According to the custom of the old Beijing, the spring equinox have to eat donkey roll, in order to avoid the evil and pray for luck. Donkey rolls have a long history, just look at its processing materials, including rhubarb rice noodles, soybean noodles, red bean paste, sugar, sesame oil, cinnamon, green and red silk and melon seeds, enough to meet the nutritional dietary guidelines on the diversity of ingredients this one.

4, sun cake

Sun cake, step by step. According to the old Beijing custom, on the day of the spring equinox, the sun god should be worshipped and the sun cake should be eaten. The sun cake is not only a tribute for the spring equinox festival, but also a festival food, which means the sun is high. Not only is the symbolism of the sun cake beautiful, but the glutinous rice and the filling are also in line with the spring health concept of saving acid and increasing sweetness.

5, Beijing Duck

Peking Duck is famous, half in its baking method, generally in its unique way of eating. Currently more popular there are two ways to eat, each with its own flavor.