1, jiaozi (dragon's ear)
Jiaozi is one of the best cuisines in the north of China. No refutation! No matter where northerners go, the most unforgettable thing is jiaozi, and the most unforgettable thing is that my mother wrapped it. Homesickness sometimes eating jiaozi can relieve a lot of worries. Jiaozi's food should be eaten in major rural festivals in the north, except February 2nd.
The phrase "delicious food is not as good as jiaozi" is not just a casual remark. This jiaozi has many shapes, such as the shape of an ingot and the shape of an ear. When the dragon looks up and eats jiaozi, it is called "eating dragon's ears". On the day when the dragon looks up, pay attention to eating "jiaozi with meat and vegetables", that is, there is meat and vegetables in the stuffing, and take the homonym of "meat and vegetables" as "rich" to send a message that the financial resources in the New Year are rolling.
2, fried oil cake (eat gentian)
Beijing, Tianjin and other places: There is a custom of eating fried cakes on February 2nd, which is called "eating gentian". The fried cake is golden in color, and it is very vivid to be called Gentiana. The practice is to grind the millet into yellow rice, and then grind the yellow rice into flour, that is, yellow wheat. The yellow rice cake made of yellow wheat has four characteristics: yellow, soft, strong and fragrant. There are two ways to eat it, one is vegetarian cake, and the other is fried cake.
This millet is not the ordinary millet we see, but the waxy millet, which is usually used to make rice cakes and steamed buns in pasta.
3, spring cake (bite Long Lin)
On the day of beginning of spring, we pay attention to eating spring cakes, but on February 2, we also pay attention to eating spring cakes. Eating spring cakes in beginning of spring is called "biting spring", while eating spring cakes on February 2 is called biting "Long Lin", which is named after the round and thin shape of spring cakes like scales. The custom of eating spring cakes on February 2nd originated from the Qing Dynasty, in which meat such as sauce elbow, pork head, tea duck and vegetables such as leeks, radishes and bean sprouts are involved.
4. Twist (biting keel)
This is a custom in Hebei. According to legend, a long time ago, scorpions ran rampant in Daying, Hebei. In order to curse this scorpion, people pulled the reconciled noodles into long strips on February 2 of the lunar calendar every year, twisted them into scorpion tails, fried them and ate them, which was called "biting scorpion tails". Over time, this "scorpion tails" evolved into today's twists. On the day of Jinnan, you must eat twist and prickly heat, which is called "biting the keel".
5. a flag
On the second day of the second lunar month, people in Zibo have the traditional custom of eating fried noodles and flags. After the dough is made, it is rolled into noodles like noodles, and cut into diamonds with a knife, just like flags.