Shandong spring eat what traditional food

It varies from place to place, most of them eat spring cakes.

Eating spring cakes in the spring is one of the food customs in some areas of China. Spring cake, also known as pancake, lotus leaf cake, the early spring cake is made of flour branded or steamed into a thin crust, wrapped in fried bean sprouts, leeks, vermicelli eaten together. In some places, the spring pancake with fried spinach, spread eggs, soy sauce meat, shredded meat and other rolled to eat. Spring to eat spring cake to welcome the spring, praying for a good harvest.

Extended information:

Lichun is the first of the twenty-four solar terms, also known as "playing spring", generally in February 4~5 each year, the time of spring in 2019 is February 4, 2019 11:14:14, Lunar Year Wuxu (Year of the Dog) Lunar Month 30th.

Lichun is one of the important traditional festivals in folklore, which was once treated as a festival, and there are many folk activities centered around Lichun that have been passed down to the present day, such as playing the spring bull, whipping the spring, welcoming the spring, wearing the spring chicken, biting the spring, and so on. Each important festival is characterized by its own traditional food, and the Spring Festival is no exception, with the custom of "biting the spring" related to eating.

Now, eat spring cake, spring plate of the custom has been rare, generally eat dumplings and noodles, called "welcome spring dumplings playing spring noodles". Spring Day, there are many customs. In the north and west of Lu area, the day of spring, mothers will use colorful rags sewn into "spring cock", "spring dolls" and other small toys, given to children as a holiday gift. In Tengzhou, Huimin and other places, where there is no cowpox children, spring cockerel's mouth to hold a string of soybean grains, a few years old to hold a few grains, meaning that the chicken ate beans, can eat smallpox, measles and other diseases.