Spring is one of the most important solar terms in China. Since then, warm spring has come. People like to eat some spring cakes, spring plates, spring rolls and other foods in this solar term to welcome the coming of spring. People think that eating these foods for a year will be smooth and happy.
1、 Spring cake
"Four seasons mirror" of Tang Dynasty records: "in the beginning of spring, eat reed, spring cake, lettuce, No." dish dish " It can be seen that people in Tang Dynasty began to try spring dishes and eat spring cakes. The so-called spring cake, also known as lotus leaf cake, is actually a kind of hot pancake -- two small pieces of water surface are used, the oil is applied in the middle, the pancake is rolled out, and the pancake can be opened into two pieces after being baked. Spring cake is used to roll vegetables, including cooked vegetables and stir fried vegetables.
In the book diaodeng collection of Qing Dynasty, there was a record of the method of making spring cakes: "roll the dough and wrap ham, chicken and other things, or the four seasons vegetable heart, fried for customers. And bacon waist, garlic flower, black dates, Hu Taoren, foreign sugar, white sugar are crushed, and spring cake is cut into sections. " This was the way of eating in the Qing Dynasty. Nowadays, the spring cake is still made by the ancient way of burning or steaming. The size depends on personal preference. When eating, some people like to eat it with sweet sauce and scallion rolls. Some places also pay attention to eating it with cooked meat such as chicken shreds with sauce belly.
2、 Spring dish
Spring dish, also known as "five spicy dish", is made of five kinds of spicy lettuce. "Compendium of Materia Medica" said: "five spice vegetables, is the new year's day, spring onion, garlic, leek, Polygonum Artemisia, mustard xinnen vegetables miscellaneous and food, take welcome new meaning." This custom spread to Tang, song, Jin and Yuan Dynasties. For example, in the Yuan Dynasty, Yelu Chucai wrote the poem "making a poor spring plate in the post house on the first spring day", in which lotus root, pea, onion, Artemisia selengensis, leek and vermicelli were used as spring plates.
Ningjin area with onions, garlic, peppers, ginger, mustard cut and food, known as five spicy plate, it can not only drink with food, but also as a gift to each other. There are also gifts of leeks and oranges.
3、 Spring roll
In addition to spring cake, spring roll is also a kind of festival food that people often eat on spring day. Spring roll is evolved from the ancient custom of eating spring plate on the first day of spring. In Song Dynasty, there was a kind of "pancake roll", which was the transitional type of spring cake and spring roll. In the Yuan Dynasty, the complete collection of household necessities has appeared the records of fried spring cake wrapped with stuffing. By the Qing Dynasty, the name of spring roll had appeared.
The method of spring roll is to wrap the filling with a round thin roll of baked dough, grow into a strip, and then fry it in an oil pan until it is golden and floating. The filling can be meat or vegetable, salty or sweet.
4、 Eat in spring: clear lung and detoxify
According to traditional Chinese medicine, honey is sweet and can nourish Qi, moisten intestines and relieve constipation. In spring, the climate is changeable. When the weather is cold or warm, people are easy to catch cold. Honey is the best tonic in spring because it contains many kinds of minerals, vitamins and the function of clearing lung and detoxifying. Therefore, in spring, if you can drink 1-2 spoons a day, take it with a cup of warm boiled water or milk, it will have nourishing effect on your body.
5、 Eating red dates in spring: helps to nourish the spleen
Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in ancient China, said, "in spring, it is better to save acid and increase sweetness, so as to keep temper." It means that we should eat less sour food and more sweet food in spring. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that when the liver Qi is vigorous in spring, eating more sour food will cause excessive liver qi and damage the spleen and stomach, so we should eat less sour food.
In spring, people's outdoor activities are more than that in winter. They consume more physical energy and need more calories. However, at this time, the spleen and stomach are weak and the digestive capacity of the gastrointestinal tract is poor, so it is not suitable to eat greasy meat. Therefore, the heat can be properly supplied by sweet food. Red jujube is such a good food for nourishing the spleen in spring.
In the beginning of spring, the North likes to eat pancakes, while the South likes to eat spring rolls. No matter what you eat, it symbolizes the coming of spring. In the spring, you can adjust your body well and welcome the coming of the new year. If you make a good start in the new year, the year will be smooth.