What does beginning of spring eat?

Spring cakes, spring plates, spring rolls, spring tea.

Eating spring cakes at the beginning of spring is a dietary habit in many places. Spring cake, also known as lotus leaf cake, is a kind of pancake baked with flour. Grease two small pieces of water, fold them together, roll them into pancakes, bake them and uncover them into two pieces. Spring plate, also known as "spiced plate", is a dish in which lettuce such as onion, leek, garlic, ginger and Artemisia selengensis are shredded, which can be used as an appetizer or as a gift for relatives and friends. Spring rolls are also a seasonal food that Japanese people often eat at the beginning of spring. Eating spring rolls in beginning of spring is also called "biting spring". Beginning of spring eats spring tea, also called "simmering spring", which is mainly popular in Wenzhou, Zhejiang. Tea here doesn't mean tea. The earliest practice is to chop a grapefruit, mix it with black beans or white beans, and brew it with tea before drinking. Later, red beans, osmanthus, citrus, osmanthus and so on were used. Boil it with brown sugar until it is ripe, which is called "simmering spring".

Beginning of spring, also called "Da Chun", is the first of the 24 solar terms. Standing is the meaning of beginning; Spring represents warmth and growth. Beginning of spring means that the winter when everything is dormant has passed, and it has begun to enter a season of vitality and growth. On the day of spring, there are some folk customs of "welcoming the spring" in China, and diet is one of them.