After the cold solar term, spring is coming. Do you know what kind of traditional food to eat in spring? Many people think that dumplings and noodles are not the traditional food in spring. So what kind of food should we eat in spring? Spring has arrived, the cold has left us, is not the whole people are filled with a feeling of excitement?
What traditional food do you eat in spring?
At the beginning of spring, there are their own food, mainly spring cakes, turnips, five spicy dishes, etc. in the south, spring rolls are popular. There are many hawkers selling spring rolls on the street. Here is a brief introduction to what traditional food you eat in spring.
1, spring plate
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.
2, spring cake
In the four seasons mirror of the Tang Dynasty, it is recorded that 'in the beginning of spring, eat reed, spring cake and lettuce, No. & lsquo; dish & rsquo;. '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 way to make spring cakes: 'roll the dough and wrap ham, chicken and other things, or the four seasons vegetables, fried for customers. And salt meat waist, garlic flower, black date, Hu Taoren, foreign sugar, white sugar are crushed together, and spring cake is cut into sections. 'this is 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, and some places also pay attention to eating it with cooked meat such as chicken shreds with sauce belly.
3, spring rolls
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. There was a kind of "pancake roll" in Song Dynasty, 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. Radish.
According to Cui Shi's "four people's moon order" in Han Dynasty, there was a eating custom of "starting spring with lettuce & hellip; & hellip; to welcome the new". After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the so-called "biting spring" mainly refers to eating radish on the spring day. For example, Liu Ruoyu's "a brief introduction of eating well in the mind of drinking" & middot; in the Ming Dynasty "at the time of the next spring of Hitachi, all people chew Radish", named "biting Spring & RS" Quo; "When Yanjing is old" written by Fu chadun Chong in the Qing Dynasty also contains: "spring is the beginning of spring. It is the rich Japanese who eat more spring cakes and women who buy more radishes and eat them. It is called" biting spring ", which means they can but suffer from spring poverty. '
Why eat radish? It's a common saying that it can solve the problem of spring. After the beginning of spring, the temperature gradually increased, and people's Yang gradually increased. The Chinese people who pay attention to food and tonic, at this time, chose the food with the characteristics of spreading of Xingan to make the body conform to the time of the day. Su Dongpo has a poem: "the roots of Lufan still contain Xiaolu, and the frost and snow cover the East Garden in autumn. The roots of Lufan have children, mustard and grandchildren. Li Shizhen praised the radish more. He thought that the root and leaf of radish could be raw, cooked, sauced, fermented soya bean, vinegar, sugar, wax and rice, which were the most beneficial of vegetables. 'radish also has the medicinal value of eliminating phlegm, ventilating and relieving cough. This may be the original intention of the ancients to advocate eating radish in spring.
Nowadays, the custom of eating spring cakes and plates is very rare. Dumplings and noodles are commonly eaten, which is called "spring greeting dumplings and spring noodles". There are many customs in spring. In the northern and western areas of Shandong Province, on the spring day, mothers sew small toys such as "spring rooster" and "spring Doll" with colorful rags to give their children as holiday gifts. In Tengzhou, Huimin and other places, for those children who do not have vaccinia, the spring Rooster still has a string of soybeans in his mouth and a few in his mouth when he is a few years old, which means that the chicken can eat beans, smallpox, measles and other diseases.