1, spring pancake
Beginning of spring pays attention to eating spring cakes, while February 2nd Dragon Head Festival also pays attention to eating spring cakes. Eating spring cakes in beginning of spring is called "biting spring", while eating spring cakes on February 2nd 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.
2. Fried cake
In some areas such as Beijing and Tianjin, people have the custom of eating fried cakes on the Dragon Head Festival, which is called "eating gentian". Grinding yellow rice into flour, and then making yellow rice cake with yellow wheat. After frying, it has four characteristics of "yellow, soft, strong and fragrant". The fried cake is golden in color, and it is very vivid to be called Gentiana.
3. jiaozi
Because jiaozi is shaped like an ingot and an ear, the dragon looks up and eats jiaozi, which is called "eating dragon ears". "It's better to be comfortable than to be upside down, and delicious than to be in jiaozi". On the day of "Dragon Looking Up", pay attention to eating "jiaozi with meat and vegetables", that is, take the homonym of "meat and vegetables" and send a message that the new year's financial resources are rolling.
4. Rolling around
According to the custom of old Beijing, people like to buy "snowballing usury" on the second day of the second lunar month. The snowballing of soybean flour with bean paste stuffing is round in shape and has the auspicious meaning of "rolling in financial resources".
5. Noodles
Northerners like to eat a bowl of "Longxu Noodles" on February 2nd to win a good prize. Longxu Noodles evolved from hand-pulled noodles in Shandong. Because the pulled noodles were as thin as hair, and the boiled water was like silver dragons entering the sea, it was named. According to legend, there was a chef in the imperial dining room in the Ming Dynasty. On the same day in beginning of spring, he made a noodle as thin as hair, just like a dragon beard. The emperor had a big appetite and was full of praise. Longxu Noodles's February 2 eclipse has a beautiful meaning of "smooth and smooth, smooth and happy".