What traditional food does beginning of spring eat?

Different places, most people eat spring cakes.

Eating spring cakes at the beginning of spring is one of the eating habits in some areas of China. Spring cakes, also called pancakes and lotus leaf cakes, are baked with flour or steamed into thin skin, wrapped with fried bean sprouts and leeks and eaten with vermicelli. Spring cakes in some places are served with fried spinach, scrambled eggs, sauced meat and shredded pork. Beginning of spring eats spring cakes to welcome spring and pray for a bumper harvest.

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Beginning of spring is the first of the 24 solar terms, also known as the "Da Chun". Generally, from February 4th to 5th every year, the beginning of spring time in 20 19 is February 4th of the lunar calendar at 201:14:14.

Beginning of spring is one of the important traditional solar terms among the people and was once regarded as a festival. Many folk activities around beginning of spring have been passed down to this day, such as shooting spring cattle, whipping spring, welcoming spring, Dai Chun chicken and biting spring. Every important festival is indispensable to its unique traditional food, and beginning of spring is no exception. The "biting spring" in its custom is related to eating.

Spring cakes and spring vegetables are seldom eaten now. Generally eating jiaozi and noodles is called "Spring Festival in jiaozi". On that day in beginning of spring, there were many customs. In northern Shandong and western Shandong, on the day of spring, mothers will sew small toys such as "Spring Chicken" and "Spring Doll" with colorful rags as holiday gifts for their children. In Tengzhou, Huimin and other places, all children who don't get vaccinia will have a pile of soybeans in their mouths, and there are several at the age of several, which means that chickens eat beans and can eat diseases such as smallpox and measles.