1, spring cake
Spring eating spring cake is a lot of places have food customs, spring cake, also known as lotus leaf cake, is a kind of flour branded thin cakes, will be two small pieces of water, the middle of the oil smeared, stacked together and rolled into a thin pancake, cooked and unveiled into two. Spring pancakes are used to roll vegetables to eat, vegetables are people prepared vegetables or home cooking, such as shredded meat fried bean sprouts or leeks, fried vegetarian vermicelli, fried mung bean sprouts and so on.
Eating spring pancakes will be wrapped up in these dishes, eaten from the beginning to the end, called "head to tail", to take the meaning of good luck. Used to make spring pancake filling of these dishes is also known as Hap Cai, this kind of dish is an essential dish on the day of spring. Eating spring cakes in spring also has the meaning of welcoming spring and praying for a good harvest.
2, spring plate
Spring plate, also known as the "five Xin plate", is the green onions, leeks, garlic, ginger, Artemisia vulgaris and other lettuces shredded into a plate, can be a dish, can be a drink, but also gifts to friends and relatives.
3, spring rolls
Spring rolls is also a spring day people often eat a seasonal food, spring to eat spring rolls, also known as the "bite spring". The practice of spring rolls and spring pancakes are similar, but spring pancakes are rolled vegetables eaten directly after the spring rolls are rolled into about two inches long tube with pancake skin filling, and will be wrapped at both ends, into the frying pan fried to the outside of the burnt inside tender, fished out and drained of oil and then eaten.
Customs of Lichun
Custom 1: Lichun Festival
On the main ancient traditional festivals, worshiping the gods and sacrificing to the ancestors is one of the very important traditional folk cultural activities.
Custom 2: Posting the word "Chun"
On the day of the first spring, the ancients had the habit of posting the word "Yichun". Later, this gradually developed into the Spring Festival, into the New Year's Eve before the posting of the couplets, expressing the Chinese working people to ward off evil spirits, welcome the good wishes of the auspicious and blessed.
Custom 3: Welcoming Spring
Welcoming Spring is an important activity of the Spring Festival, so it must be rehearsed many times. It is held mainly on the day before the first day of spring and is meant to bring back spring and the god Jumang.
Custom 4: Biting Spring
In addition to this, people have the custom of biting spring on the day of the first spring. Biting spring is also known as eating radish, which means eating radish on the day of spring. Radish has a very good effect, radish has "autumn radish race ginseng" reputation.