What traditional food do you eat on February 2nd in the north?

Some of jiaozi are shaped like gold ingots, while others are shaped like ears. On this day, dragons look up and eat jiaozi, which is called "eating dragon ears". "It's better to stand upside down than to be comfortable, and it's better to eat in jiaozi". On the day when the dragon looks up, we should pay attention to eating "jiaozi with a vegetarian diet", that is, taking the homonym of "vegetarian diet" as "wealth" to convey the message that the new year will be rich.

2. Noodles

In the area of Beixiang, Shexian County, Huangshan City, Anhui Province, every household eats fried noodles at noon on the second day of the second lunar month. Fried noodles are small pieces of noodles, mixed with shredded pork, shredded tofu, shredded bamboo shoots and vegetables. Because the fried noodles look like insects, it means that everyone Qi Xin works together to fry the insects and eat them all.

3. Mustard rice

There is a custom of eating mustard rice on February 2. There is a saying in the local dialect that rhymes, which means that eating mustard rice on this day will keep you from getting skin diseases for a year. This has a certain scientific reason, because the vitamins and chlorophyll in mustard are good for your skin.

4. Fried oil cake

In some areas such as Beijing and Tianjin, people have the custom of eating fried cakes during the Spring Festival, which is called "eating gentian". The fried cake is golden in color, which makes Gentiana macrophylla very vivid. The practice is to grind millet into yellow rice, and then grind yellow rice into flour, which is yellow wheat. Yellow rice cake made of yellow wheat has four characteristics: yellow, soft, thick and fragrant. There are two ways to eat, one is vegetarian cake and the other is fried cake.

4. popcorn

Wu Zetian became emperor, which annoyed the jade emperor. The Jade Emperor told the four dragon kings that it was forbidden to rain on the earth for three years, but a yellow dragon went against his will. When the Jade Emperor learned about it, he put it on the ground and pressed it under the stupa. The jade emperor said that he would return to heaven, and that was "golden beans blossom". In order to save the Dragon King, people searched everywhere for golden beans in full bloom. On the second day of February, when people were drying corn seeds, it suddenly occurred to them that this kind of corn, like golden beans, bloomed as soon as it was fried. Isn't it "Golden Bean bloom"? Every household popped popcorn and put a case in the yard to burn incense for the flowering "golden beans".

5. Spring pancake

On that day in beginning of spring, we paid attention to eating spring cakes, but on February 2nd, we also paid attention to eating spring cakes. Eating spring cakes in beginning of spring is called "biting spring", and eating spring cakes on February 2nd is called biting "Longlin", which is named because the shape of spring cakes is round and thin like scales. The custom of eating spring cakes on February 2nd originated from the Qing Dynasty, which involved meat such as sauced elbows, pig heads, tea ducks and vegetables such as leeks, radishes and bean sprouts.