Some of jiaozi are shaped like gold ingots, and some are shaped like ears. The dragon looks up and eats jiaozi on this day, 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.

2. Noodles

In the area of Beixiang, Shexian County, Huangshan City, Anhui Province, every household eats fried noodles at noon on the second day of the second lunar month. Stir-fried noodles are small pieces of noodles, and then mixed with shredded pork, shredded bean curd, shredded bamboo shoots, green vegetables and so on. Because the fried noodles look like insects, it means that everyone works together to fry the insects and eat them all.

3. Mustard rice

There is a custom of eating mustard rice on February 2. There is a common saying in the local dialect that rhymes with each other, which means that if you eat mustard rice this day, you won't get skin diseases for a year. This has certain scientific truth, because the vitamins and chlorophyll rich in mustard are good for your skin.

4, fried oil cake

In some areas such as Beijing and Tianjin, people have the custom of eating fried cakes on the Spring Dragon Festival, 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.

4. Popcorn

When Wu Zetian became emperor, it annoyed the Jade Emperor. The Jade Emperor told the four dragon kings that it was forbidden to rain on the earth for three years, but one Huanglong violated the will. When the jade emperor learned about it, he laid it down on the earth and pressed it under the stupa. The jade emperor said that if he wanted to return to heaven, it would be "golden beans blossom". In order to save the Dragon King, people look for blooming golden beans everywhere. On the second day of February of the following year, when people were drying corn seeds, it suddenly occurred to them that this corn was like golden beans, and when it was fried, it blossomed. Isn't it "golden beans blossom"? Every household burst popcorn and set up a case in the yard to burn incense for the "golden beans" that bloomed.

5. Spring cakes

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.