Beginning of spring Custom in 24 solar terms: What traditional food does beginning of spring eat?

On this day in beginning of spring, there are customs of "biting spring" and "tasting spring" all over the country. Whether you bite or taste spring, you use spicy vegetables. "Biting spring" means eating raw radish in the early spring, with crispy and juicy green radish as the top, and it is best to have a "beautiful heart" with green skin and red hearts. It is said that beginning of spring can get rid of the spring sleep by biting a raw radish every day. In some places in Linyi area, people hold a raw radish in their hands on this day. When spring begins, they all bite it. It is said that whoever bites the radish at the moment in beginning of spring will live forever.

Biting spring refers to the folk custom of biting radish, eating spring cakes and eating spring rolls every day in spring. The word "biting" reveals many seasonal eating customs. Beginning of spring season diet conditioning should consider the spring sun be the spirit is strong, sour taste into the liver, has a convergence effect. It is not conducive to the growth of Yang Qi and the release of liver qi. It is advisable to eat more fresh vegetables and fruits such as leek, jujube, peanut, onion, coriander, bamboo shoots and carrots and high-quality protein, such as milk, eggs, fish, shrimp, chickens and ducks, beef, etc., which can not only supplement calories, but also enhance the body's disease resistance. It is not advisable to eat more spicy, greasy and fried things. Patients with chronic liver disease can get twice the result with half the effort if they are given vigorous liver function treatment in spring.