Tang "Four Seasons Treasure Mirror" recorded: "Spring, food reeds, spring cake, lettuce, the number of 'vegetable plate'." It can be seen that the Tang Dynasty people have begun to eat spring dishes, spring cakes. The so-called spring pancake, also known as lotus leaf cake, in fact, is a kind of hot noodle pancake, with two small pieces of water, the center of the oil, rolled into a pancake, cooked can be uncovered into two. Spring pancakes are used to roll vegetables, including cooked and fried vegetables. The cakes for rolling vegetables must be freshly made hot flour pancakes, which are round, thin and smooth. Rolled out cakes must be gently smeared with a layer of oil on the top, in order to not let the cake and the cake between the adhesion, but also eat the texture is more smooth, with rolled in the inside of the squeaky vegetables, a soft and hard, good taste.

2, spring plate

Spring plate, also known as the "five Xin plate", is a fine cut of five kinds of spicy lettuce plate and become. The Compendium of Materia Medica" said: "five Xin dish, is the first day, the spring to onions, garlic, leeks, polygonum, mustard pungent and tender vegetables and eat, take the meaning of welcoming the new." This custom was passed on to the Tang, Song, Jin and Yuan. 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. There are also gifts of green leeks, yellow citrus. Spring plate is actually quite simple, it is a cold vegetable-based platter. 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 green onions, garlic, leeks, mustard and other spicy vegetables and eat, all to take the meaning of welcoming the new.

3, spring rolls

In addition to spring pancakes, spring rolls are often eaten on the day of spring a festive food. Spring rolls are evolved from the ancient custom of eating spring plate on the day of spring. The custom of eating spring rolls on the first day of spring originated in the Tang Dynasty, also known as "biting spring". As the spring, spring, everything is recovering, a variety of vegetables send out shoots, people taste fresh, the ancients will use the skin wrapped with seasonal vegetables, rolled into a roll steamed or fried, named spring rolls, implying a bumper harvest, and the skin made round, is a symbol of the family reunion, celery and leek filling, but also implies that people are more industrious (celery), life is more long (leek). So in this spring, the New Year, neighbors may wish to eat spring rolls at home, both stomach, refreshing and can harvest a blessing. Spring rolls practice is to use the cooked round thin crust roll wrapped in filling, into a long strip, and then deep-fried in a frying pan until golden brown and floating. The filling can be meat or vegetarian, salty or sweet.