What traditional food to eat in the north in the spring?

Food:

1, spring cake

Tang "Four Seasons Treasure Mirror" recorded: "Spring, food reeds, spring cake, lettuce, No. 'Vegetable Plate'." It can be seen that the Tang Dynasty people have begun to eat spring dishes, spring cakes. The so-called spring pancake, also known as lotus leaf cake, in fact, is a kind of hot noodle pancake, with two small pieces of water, the center of the oil, rolled into a pancake, cooked can be uncovered into two. The spring pancake is used to roll up vegetables to eat, and the vegetables include cooked and fried vegetables.

2, spring plate

Spring plate, also known as the "five Xin plate", is a fine cut of five kinds of spicy lettuce plate and become. The Compendium of Materia Medica" said: "five Xin dish, is the first day, the spring to onions, garlic, leeks, polygonum, mustard, pungent and tender vegetables and eat, take the meaning of welcoming the new." This custom was passed on to the Tang, Song, Jin and Yuan. Ningjin area with onions, garlic, pepper, ginger, mustard cut and seasoned food, known as the five Xin plate.

3, spring rolls

In addition to spring pancakes, spring rolls are also often eaten on the day of spring a festive food. Spring rolls are evolved from the ancient custom of eating spring plate on the day of spring. The custom of eating spring rolls on the first day of spring originated in the Tang Dynasty, also known as "biting spring". Because the spring, spring, everything is recovering, all kinds of vegetables send out shoots, people taste fresh, the ancients will be wrapped in seasonal vegetables, rolled into a roll steamed or deep-fried, named spring rolls, implying a bumper harvest.

History

Lichun, the first of the twenty-four solar terms, also known as the first month of the festival, the Festival of the year, the change of the year, the year of the first day. The word "spring" means "beginning", and "spring" represents warmth and growth. In nature, the most significant feature of spring is that everything starts to show signs of recovery. Spring is the beginning of all things, all the meaning of rebirth, which means that a new cycle has begun.

The beginning of spring is the beginning of spring, the time sequence into the spring. At this time, although it is still cold, but the cold winter is over, spring back to the earth, everything is revived, nature is vigorous. Therefore, the ancients attached importance to the spring, in ancient times, there is the ritual of welcoming the spring.