At the beginning of spring, we eat spring dishes, mugwort, spring cakes, spring rolls, and bite spring (eating radish). The spring plate is one of the dietary customs at the beginning of spring. It mainly consists of vegetables, lettuce, melon, fruit, cakes and sugar placed on the plate as a spring plate (or assembled into a plate) to give to relatives and friends or to eat by yourself to welcome the spring. Wormwood is a common seasonal food in spring. Spring pancakes are pancakes baked with flour, usually rolled into vegetables. And bite spring means that on the day of Beginning of Spring, no matter how poor a family is, they have to buy a radish for their children to bite spring.

1. Spring plate:

Spring plate is one of the dietary customs at the beginning of spring. It mainly consists of vegetables, lettuce, melons, fruit cakes, sugar, etc. and is placed on a plate as a spring plate (or assembled into a plate) as a gift to relatives and friends. Or eat it yourself to welcome the spring. There are mainly five types of food on the plate: fruits, vegetables, candies, cakes, and bait. The main vegetables include: bean sprouts, radishes, leeks, spinach, lettuce, beans, eggs, and shredded potatoes. Du Fu's "The Beginning of Spring": "On a spring day, a plate of thin lettuce suddenly reminds me of the plum blossoms in the two capitals."

2. Tian Mugwort:

Tian Mugwort is a common seasonal food in spring . At the beginning of spring, everything revives, the grass grows and orioles fly. It is the heyday of the growth of mugwort in the spring plowed fields. The mugwort is about 10 centimeters high, with pink-green leaves, white flowers with green middle, and the whole body is covered with downy hairs. According to "Food Materia Medica", mugwort has the effects of removing dampness, warming the stomach, and clearing the intestines. Tian AI Zhen is also a seasonal tribute to worship gods and pray for good weather.

3. Spring pancakes:

Spring pancakes are pancakes made of flour and are usually eaten in rolls. The Song Dynasty's "Sui Sui Guang Ji" quoted from the Tang Dynasty's "Four Seasons Treasure Mirror": "At the beginning of spring, we eat radish, spring pancakes, and lettuce, called spring dishes."

4. Spring rolls (spring silkworms):

"Sui Sui Guang Ji": "A wealthy family in the capital made noodle silkworms, and they called them 'Tanguan Silkworms'. Because they did it at the beginning of spring, they were also called 'Tanchun Silkworms.'"

5. Eat spring (eating radish):

The older generation pays special attention to seasonal eating, and eating radish is essential for eating spring. There is a saying in "Zhuizhongzhi" of the Ming Dynasty: At the beginning of spring, no matter the noble or the humble chew radish, it is called "biting spring". This means that on the day of the Beginning of Spring, no matter how poor a family is, they still have to buy a radish for their children to bite into.

Reference for the above content? Baidu Encyclopedia - Beginning of Spring