What food does beginning of spring stand for?

There are many representative foods in beginning of spring, the most common ones are: spring cakes, spring plates, spring rolls, spring tea and spring vegetables.

1, spring pancake

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.

2. Spring plate

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.

3. Spring rolls

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". The practice of spring rolls is similar to that of spring rolls, but the spring rolls are eaten directly after the dishes are rolled, while the spring rolls are wrapped in pancakes and rolled into a tube about two inches long, wrapped at both ends, fried in an oil pan until tender, and drained before eating.

4. Spring tea

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".

5. Spring vegetables

On the day of spring, people should eat some seasonal vegetables in spring, such as spring leeks, spring buds and spring spinach, which not only means welcoming the new year, but also plays a role in health care.