What food do you eat in early spring in the north?

On this day in beginning of spring, an important custom is "biting the spring". "The History of Good Diet in the Forbidden City in Ming Dynasty" records: "The day before beginning of spring, outside Dongzhimen in Shuntianfu Street, all the dignitaries, ministers and warriors chewed radishes when beginning of spring arrived the next day, which was called" biting spring ",feasting each other and eating spring cakes and vegetables." This custom can be traced back to the Jin Dynasty and prevailed in the Tang Dynasty. Guan Zhongji said that the Tang people "made spring cakes in spring, wrapped them with Artemisia annua, leeks and Polygonum hydropiper buds" and gave each other gifts to welcome the spring.

On the day of spring, one of the foods that China people "bite spring" is radish. Generally speaking, it can solve the spring sleep. It can also enhance women's reproductive function, and beginning of spring radish is also called "offspring radish". In the past, "biting the spring" was to buy a radish to eat, because radish tastes spicy, which means that the ancients "bitten the grass roots and could do anything."