The implication of eating spring cakes in spring

The moral of eating spring cakes in spring is to welcome spring.

Eating spring cakes is one of the customs in beginning of spring, commonly known as "chewing spring", "biting spring" or "tasting spring". Eating spring cakes in beginning of spring's solar terms means welcoming spring, biting spring to receive blessings and saving good luck for a year. When eating spring cakes, there is a certain amount of attention. The prepared side dishes on the prepared spring cakes are eaten from beginning to end, which means a beginning and an end. Beginning of spring eats spring cakes to welcome spring and pray for a bumper harvest.

Eating spring cakes at the beginning of spring is a traditional custom of ordinary people in China. According to the old man, eating spring cakes is like pulling out the skin of a dragon, and it is a mascot representing holiness, majesty and evil spirits. Pulling a dragon's skin is also a metaphor for wishing the new year a good weather, peace and prosperity, and happiness and well-being of the people.

Making method of spring cake:

1 First of all, prepare all the ingredients: flour needed for spring cake noodles, eggs, carrots, cucumbers, potatoes, lean meat, leeks and bean sprouts needed for making spring cake side dishes.

2. First put the flour and salt into the basin, then pour hot water and stir it quickly with chopsticks to make flour wadding. After drying until it is not hot, knead it into smooth dough and cover it with plastic wrap for about 20 minutes.

3. Processing ingredients: firstly, peel cucumber, carrot and potato and cut them into filaments respectively; Picking leek, washing with clear water, controlling humidity, and cutting into sections for later use; Pinch off the roots of mung bean sprouts and wash them for later use; Clean the lean meat, cut it into shredded pork, put it in a bowl, add cooking wine 10ml to remove fishy smell, then add soy sauce 10ml and 2g starch, and mix well for pickling and sizing. Beat the eggs into a bowl and add salt1g.

4. Put the baked dough on the chopping board, knead it evenly by hand repeatedly, and then knead it into long strips to make noodles with even size. Then, the two flour products are a group. First spread the flour products by hand, then brush a layer of oil, and then superimpose the two flour products together.