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What do you know about the special food in early spring? Are there any special foods in your hometown in early spring?

Beginning of spring is a very important solar term. In some places, local people attach great importance to festivals in beginning of spring, and even hold some welcoming ceremonies to express the beautiful meaning of spring. When we were in beginning of spring, different parts of our country also had some special things to eat in spring, and the special food in spring was also very rich.

The first is the Spring Festival, which consists of various Caicai dishes. Spring plate has a very traditional history, so it is a traditional food. It is recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica, which is mainly used for welcoming the spring. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says that you should eat onions, garlic and other vegetables to welcome the arrival of spring. In addition, in some poems, we can know that some spring vegetables are made of lotus roots, peas and vermicelli. The second kind of food is spring cake, which I believe many people have eaten. This is a special food eaten at the beginning of spring. It is the best and most famous food in northeast China and Beijing.

There are also spring rolls, and many places have the custom of eating spring rolls during the Spring Festival. In fact, spring rolls are also called pancakes or spring plates in some places. It is also a traditional specialty food, which is particularly popular in Jiangnan, especially in the south. During the Spring Festival, people don't eat jiaozi like northerners, but eat some spring rolls and glutinous rice balls. Spring rolls are mainly developed from ancient spring cakes, and some places eat radishes in the early spring. Then there is the custom. Eating radish is called biting spring, especially when spring comes in the north. So when I was in the spring, most northerners would eat raw radish directly. Radish has a very good function, which can not only relieve the spring sleep, but also provide some nutrition for people. When I was in early spring, most northerners ate carrots.

When I was in beginning of spring, there was a custom of biting spring, which began in the Han Dynasty, mainly to welcome the arrival of spring. Therefore, when I start in spring, many places will eat a lot of vegetables. These vegetables are called spring vegetables, which can not only welcome the arrival of spring, but also enhance my physique. On the other hand, there is cooking. Everyone knows how to bake spring cakes. Many families bake a lot of spring cakes on the day of spring, so they need to fry some dishes to eat together. This dish is called stir-fry. It is all kinds of seasonal vegetables, such as some bean sprouts or dried mushrooms, shredded, cooked and then added with all kinds of shredded pork, or kelp and ham. There are also some spinach and leeks, which can be fried together in a pot and then rolled up with spring cakes at home.