Why do you eat radishes in spring?

Because this is a custom of "biting spring".

Beginning of spring eats radish, which means "biting spring". People believe that tasting radish at the beginning of spring means tasting the taste of spring. There is another important reason. In spring, people are easy to get sleepy, and eating radish will cheer them up.

In many places, beginning of spring is also called "biting spring". In the early spring in the north, the most representative food is radish. Eating radish can be divided into many forms, such as chewing, slicing, shredding, stuffing and so on. Liu Ruoyu, an Amin scholar, recorded in The History of the Ming Dynasty: By the next day in beginning of spring, all people, regardless of rank, were chewing radish, which was called "biting spring"; In the Qing Dynasty, "Yanjing Nianji" recorded that women and others bought more radishes to eat, saying that they could be sleepy in spring. Eating radish can relieve spring sleep.

Introduction to beginning of spring

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.

Beginning of spring marks the end of the winter when everything is hidden and begins to enter the warm and sunny spring. In nature, the most striking feature of beginning of spring is that everything is beginning to show signs of recovery. As far as beginning of spring is concerned, you can obviously feel the breath of early spring in the Tropic of Cancer (Huangchi Jiao Jiao) and its south.