What traditional food does beginning of spring eat?

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.

2. Spring plate

The custom of eating spring vegetables in beginning of spring originated from the Tang Dynasty. Spring plate, also known as "spiced plate", includes five kinds of spicy foods with special smells, such as onion, garlic, leek, chrysanthemum and mustard, which are eaten together to welcome the New Year.

3. Little carrots

Beginning of spring eats radish, which means "biting spring". On this day, adults and children have to chew a few bites of radish. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that when the yang is rising in spring, it is appropriate to eat sweet food, and radish is the best health food for this solar term.

4. Spring rolls

Spring rolls are actually developed from spring cakes. They are thin skins made of flour, wrapped with stuffing prepared in advance, wrapped tightly into two pieces and fried in oil pan. They are golden and crisp, and they are popular in Jiangnan area.

5. Spring vegetables

Beginning of spring should eat some fresh vegetables on this day, which not only means welcoming new ones, but also keeping healthy.

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