When do you eat spring cakes?

Spring cakes are eaten at the beginning of spring.

On this day in beginning of spring, there is a folk tradition of "biting the spring". Northerners are generally used to eating spring cakes, that is, baking or steaming noodles into pancakes and rolling them with various dishes.

Beginning of spring is the first of the 24 solar terms. Standing means "start"; Spring represents warmth and growth. Twenty-four solar terms were originally formulated on the basis of "variable stars". When the bucket handle of the Big Dipper points to the shade, it is beginning of spring. At present, solar terms are determined according to the longitude of the sun. When the sun reaches longitude 3 15, it will be the beginning of spring, and the festival will be held from February 3 to 5 of the Gregorian calendar every year.

Although beginning of spring doesn't mean entering spring, after the solar terms in beginning of spring, the sun rises and everything comes into being. Health care needs to conform to the characteristics of spring and pay attention to protecting the yang.