First, the southern vernal equinox food: spring vegetables, radish, dumplings

1, spring vegetables

In the old days, the Xie surname of the town of Cangcheng, Kaiping, in the four euphoniums (Heshan is now added to the five euphoniums), there was a custom that did not become a festival called "eating spring vegetables at the vernal equinox". The "Spring Vegetable" is a custom that is not a part of the festival. "Spring vegetables" is a kind of wild amaranth, the townspeople called "spring artemisia". On the day of the spring equinox, everyone in the village went to pick spring vegetables. When searching in the field, most of them are young and green, thin, and about as long as the palm of your hand. The picked spring vegetables are usually "rolled in soup" with sliced fish at home, called "spring soup". There is a jingle: "spring soup to fill the dirty, wash the liver and intestines. The whole family, young and old, safe and healthy." A year since the spring, people still pray for peace and quiet at home, strong and healthy.

2, radish

Yangzhou people also eat radish or radish filling buns, spring rolls custom. This time to eat radish can not only up and down the gas, but also play a disease, the effect of spring fever. Spring health care in a variety of vegetables, the best effect is radish. White radish has a heat and fluids, qi, eliminate food and phlegm effect, eaten raw in favor of heat and fluids, cooked in favor of qi elimination, eaten in the spring, can be used to prevent and control phlegm cough, sore throat, bloating, constipation and other symptoms. Modern medicine believes that radish has a good diuretic effect, the fiber contained can also promote defecation, conducive to weight loss. If you want to use radish to detoxify, you can choose to eat raw, beat into juice or cold, pickled can be.

3, dumplings

Vernal equinox this day farmers are customary vacation, every family to eat dumplings, but also do not have to wrap the heart of the dumplings more than ten or twenty or thirty boiled, with a fine bamboo fork skewer placed in the outdoor field edge of the ground, the name of the sticky finch beak, lest the finch to destroy the crops.

Second, the northern equinox food: donkey roll, sun cake, spring cake

1, donkey roll

According to the custom of the old Beijing, the spring equinox have to eat donkey roll, in order to avoid the evil spirits and pray for luck. Donkey rolls have a remarkable history, just look at its processing materials include rhubarb rice noodles, soybean noodles, red bean paste, sugar, sesame oil, cinnamon, green and red silk and melon kernels, enough to comply with the nutritional dietary guidelines on the diversity of ingredients this one. The production of donkey rolls is divided into three processes: making, stuffing and molding. The outer layer of the donkey rolls is covered with bean flour and is golden yellow, with a sweet bean aroma and filling, and a soft, distinctive flavor, which is suitable for both young and old.

2, sun cake

"Sun cake, step by step". According to the old Beijing custom, on the day of spring equinox, we should worship the sun god and "invite" to eat the sun cake. Sun cake is not only a tribute to the spring equinox festival, but also a seasonal food, which means "high sun". Not only the "sun cake" meaning good, and glutinous rice and filling settings are also in line with the spring "should save acid increase sweet" health concept.

3, spring cake

People in many places have the custom of eating spring cake.

Eating spring pancakes, spring pancakes unique side dishes - and vegetables. The so-called and vegetables is to use seasonal vegetables (such as leeks, bean sprouts, dried incense, etc.) cut into the silk, or mixed or fried. If you mix it, you blanch the bean sprouts in water, boil the dried vermicelli, make a sauce with cornstarch, vinegar and soy sauce, and mix the shredded vegetables with the sauce. Stir-fried, it is the shredded meat, shredded egg skin, mung bean sprouts, shredded dried tofu, hydrated vermicelli, spinach or leeks into the pan and stir-fried.