1. Eating spring cakes is one of the dietary customs of China folk beginning of spring. Beginning of spring wants to eat spring cakes that day, which is called "biting spring". Spring pancake is a pancake baked with flour and usually eaten with rolled vegetables. Beginning of spring eats spring cakes to welcome spring and pray for a bumper harvest.
Cake and lettuce are put on a plate, which is called spring plate. Spring Festival originated in the Han Dynasty, and it was also related to the spiced dish on New Year's Day in the Six Dynasties. Therefore, the spring plate is also called symplectic plate. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, we ate carrots besides spring cakes and lettuce, which means that we can get rid of spring sleep and welcome spring, so as to convey our longing for spring and create a cheerful atmosphere for festivals.
Spring rolls are a traditional food in China during the Spring Festival. Spring rolls are fried and fried with dried noodles and bags. It evolved from the custom of eating spring rolls on the day of spring. Eating spring rolls has been going on for thousands of years, not only to welcome the New Year, but also because spring rolls usually contain a lot of fresh vegetables in spring, so they have high nutritional value.
4, beginning of spring, China folk pay attention to buy a radish to eat, called biting spring. Because radish is spicy, it means that the ancients "bite the grass roots and can do anything." One day in beginning of spring, early in the morning, someone was carrying a burden and shouting in the alley: Radish and pear. At that time, no matter how poor people were, they had to buy a radish for their children to bite the spring.
Dietary taboos after beginning of spring:
1. After beginning of spring, the diet should avoid acid, and the sun be the spirit should be born in spring. It is advisable to eat sweet products, not sour. In the relationship between five zang-organs and five flavors, sour taste enters the liver and converges, which is not conducive to the growth of yang and the release of liver qi. Vegetables with sour harvest properties are: tomato, orange, orange, grapefruit, apricot, papaya, loquat, hawthorn, olive, lemon, pomegranate, ebony and so on.
2. Avoid spicy food after beginning of spring, and eat less spicy hot pot, mutton and other foods. After beginning of spring, eat less spicy food and fried and grilled food. Different from winter, beginning of spring should eat less spicy hot pot and less mutton and dog meat, because these foods may lose yang and lead to excessive internal heat.