What are the traditional foods about the spring

The spring dietary practices are:

1, five Xin plate

The spring to eat spring cake has a long history. It is contained in the six dynasties on New Year's Day to eat five Xin plate (five kinds of meat vegetables: garlic, garlic, leeks, brussels sprouts, caraway), for people to eat in the spring after the five organs of the gas. Now Yangzhou people also eat five Xin in the spring: new onions, leeks, garlic, radish, coriander. Tang early cake and lettuce to plate, called spring plate, because of the origin of the five Xin plate, also called Xin plate, Song time to change the name of the spring cake, now also known as pancakes, lotus leaf cake, slice of meat and potatoes and so on.

2, spring plate noodles

Yuan "meal is about to" "spring plate noodles" by the noodles, mutton, lamb belly lungs, egg pancakes, ginger, mushrooms, polygonum buds, rouge and other more than 10 kinds of raw materials. Ming and Qing Dynasty in the cake and lettuce and eat water radish, said to go to the spring sleepy. The whole new tasting activities called "bite spring".

3, eat spring rolls

Spring rolls, also known as spring pancakes, pancakes, is popular in Fuzhou folk traditional snacks, has a long history, by the evolution of the ancient spring pancakes. Eating spring rolls in the spring is an ancient Chinese custom, which has the meaning of welcoming the spring and looking forward to a good harvest. The earliest records show biting spring and eating spring cakes. Folk in the spring this day to eat some spring fresh vegetables, both for the prevention of disease, but also to meet the meaning of the new year. Tang "four times treasure mirror" records: "spring, food reed, spring cake, lettuce, number 'vegetable plate'." Visible Tang Dynasty people have begun to try spring plate, eat spring cake. 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, put together into a pancake, after cooking can be unveiled into two, used to roll vegetables to eat.

4, fried and vegetables

With spring pancakes, naturally, and vegetables. The so-called and vegetables is to use seasonal vegetables, such as leeks, bean sprouts, dried incense and other shredded, or mixed or fried. Mixed, then the bean sprouts blanched in water, dried vermicelli boiled, with cornstarch, vinegar, soy sauce hooked into the sauce, with the juice mixed with shredded vegetables will become. If you want to eat fried, the shredded meat, shredded egg skin, mung bean sprouts, dried bean curd, vermicelli, spinach or chives together in the pan fried. If you are more particular, you can add shredded sea cucumber, shredded tripe, shredded mushrooms, and shredded ham to make it more delicious and nutritious.

5, eat radish

In many places, spring is also called "bite spring". Northern spring, the most representative food is radish, eat radish can be divided into gnawing, slicing, shredding, stuffing and other forms. Ming Liu Ruoyu "Ming Palace History": to the next day when the spring, no noble and lowly are chewing radish, called "bite spring"; Qing "Yanjing times and years": women and so much to buy radish and eat, that can be but spring sleepiness also. Eating radish can not only solve the spring sleepiness, but also can enhance the fertility of women, the spring radish is also known as "radish".

Two, spring customs

The spring bull

The spring bull made of mulberry wood as a skeleton, is dedicated to the "spring bull" customary activities with the "bull". After the winter solstice festival, we take the soil and synthesize the clay blank, and carve it into the shape of a similar size cow. Painted on the four times eight sections, 360 days 12 hours pattern. On the day before the first day of spring, the government and the people first made sacrifices on the agreed-upon agricultural altar. Later by the county deacon (governor) personally hold the plow whip "spring bull", to show the beginning of spring plowing. Then, the people make a plowing gesture by holding the plow. While plowing and beating the "spring ox", shouting: a dozen "wind and rain"; two dozen "national prosperity and people's peace"; three dozen "five grains and a bumper crop! "

Welcome to the party.

Welcome spring

In order to welcome the spring, first in the suburbs of the county to choose a piece of good feng shui, set up a "spring shed" ready to welcome the spring. Spring shed is generally built in the main traffic, easy to concentrate on the crowd. Surrounded by colorful flags.

Spring activities are held on the day of spring, the specific time to the calendar table shall prevail, sometimes in the day of the hour, sometimes in the middle of the night. Spring activities are generally in the vast ceremonial procession, carried on the spring official parade show power, the front and back crowded, the wind is immense. And a newspaper, such as the horse in robes and coats, or a variety of strange clothing, sitting on the two people to lift the one-wood bar, while the side of the play, playing muddy fun, attracting people to laugh.

Welcome the spring procession from all directions to the spring shed in front of the concentration, and then to the county government (county office) to welcome the spring.

Tour of spring, spring

Tour of spring begins after the welcome of spring, the villages and societies of the drums and gongs and honor guards in the front, by four or eight people to carry a huge statue of the spring bull in the back. Walking and dancing, drums and gongs, firecrackers. The procession is very spectacular. Touring the surrounding villages, streets and alleys.

The procession of spring into the spring field (parade ground), around the field to swim two laps, and then each stand in formation on the site of the arrangement. At this time, the governor is invited to sit in the spring shed, the spring ceremony. According to traditional custom, there is a spring platform, dressed in fancy dress newspaper, hand-held red and yellow colored flags, on the first newspaper - "good weather", the crowd echoed; the second newspaper - "Good harvest", the masses also echoed; the third newspaper - "national prosperity and peace", the masses again echoed. Every person who comes to report will be rewarded.

Paste spring cow

Paste spring cow this customary activity is in the spring before the start, according to the traditional way, by the county government (county office) to hire paper tie good craftsmen, in the spring before the party to the county, elaborate spring cow image. Generally tied with bamboo gabions into the skeleton of the cow, with the spring wood for legs, and then paste the paper, paint, a cow's image on the production of success. It is said that the paste on the red and yellow paper more, that year on the "grain harvest"; paste on the black paper, the year's harvest is not good. So the county arranged to use more red and yellow paper, in order to win the hearts of the people. After the spring cow paste, held a ceremony to open the eyes, that is, set up incense, worship.

Pasted Yichun calligraphy and painting

Spring is here, to the door wall posted Yichun calligraphy and painting, this custom in Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty. According to records: spring day, Chang'an people in the Tang Dynasty often posted on the door to welcome the spring wish good luck calligraphy and painting, the word called "Yichun word", painting called "Yichun painting". Such as "welcome spring", "spring color is pleasant", "spring is bright", "spring blossoms" and so on. There are also people who post a message on the lintel of the door to express their willingness to welcome spring. If the person will paint, often to the lintel painting a "plum picture".