Tomorrow is the day when the Dragon rises its head in February. As a relatively important festival in China, it is also very fastidious in food. On the first day of spring, it is fastidious to eat spring cakes, while on the second day of February, it is also fastidious to eat spring cakes, which is called "biting spring". In addition to eating pancakes, what other food do you eat on February 2?
On the second day of February, most of the folk food is named "dragon". For example, eating dumplings is called "eating longer", eating rice is called "eating Longzi", eating wonton is called "eating longan", eating noodles is called "supporting Longxu". Steamed cakes also make dragon scales on the surface, which is called "dragon scale cake". These customs have entrusted people with the good wishes of praying for the blessing of the dragon, blessing the weather and the harvest.
On the second day of February in the lunar calendar, people in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, have a custom of eating 'supporting cakes'. People come to the pastry shop to buy' supporting cakes' in succession, hoping for a safe and healthy year.
Many places also have the custom of fried beans and eating beans that day. "On February 2, people will have a good harvest without getting sick." eating all kinds of fried beans means that the year is over and the year's hard work begins again.
Tianjin people pay attention to eating "fried stewed seeds" this day. The stewed seeds are cut into flat pieces, which are very similar to the legendary "dragon scale". Therefore, Tianjin people call it "fried dragon scale". Stewed seeds in Tianjin need to be boiled with very fine mung bean starch and cooled to be liquid. Pan fry the stewed seeds in a pan, add less oil, and fry slowly until both sides are slightly burnt yellow. Put it into the plate and pour the sauce, garlic, vinegar and other ingredients into it while it's hot. Serve with the main food, pancake or pancake.
1. What does dragon look up to eat: scallion cake
In some places, the pancakes eaten on February 2 are called "dragon scale pancakes", while in Luliang area, pancakes or scallion pancakes are eaten on that day, which are called "Dragon Skin uncovering". In addition to pancakes, there are also dumplings in Taiyuan, which are called "eating longer". Some people also use pancakes to combine with vegetables, which means "combining the dragon head". In this day, we must eat Mahua and Sanzi, which is called "gnawing the keel".
2. What does dragon head up to eat: dumplings
Some dumplings are shaped like Yuanbao, some are shaped like ears. On this day when the Dragon raises his head, he eats dumplings, which is called 'dragon eating ear'. On the day of "dragon head up", we pay attention to eating "meat and vegetable dumplings". That is to say, there are meat and vegetables in the stuffing. Take the homonym of "meat and vegetable" and "there is wealth" to express the meaning of money rolling in the new year.
3. What does the Dragon look up to eat: Donkey rolling
It's a custom in old Beijing that people always like to buy 'donkeys rolling' for tasting on February 2 of the lunar calendar. The donkey roll with bean flour and bean paste stuffing has a round shape and auspicious meaning of "rolling money".
4. What does dragon look up to eat: fried oil cake
In Beijing, Tianjin and other areas, people have the custom of eating fried cakes on spring dragon day, which is called "eating gentian". Fried cake is golden in color, which is called gentian. The method is to grind millet into yellow rice, and then the yellow rice into noodles, which is yellow rice noodles. The yellow rice cake made of yellow rice noodles has four characteristics of 'yellow, soft, gluten and fragrant'. There are two ways to eat it, one is' vegetable cake ', the other is' fried cake'.
5. What does dragon look up to eat: Spring cake
On the first day of spring, we pay attention to eating pancakes. On the second day of February, we also pay attention to eating pancakes. Eating pancakes is called "biting spring", while eating pancakes on the second day of February is called "biting dragon scales", because the round and thin shape of pancakes looks like scales. The custom of eating spring cake on February 2 originated from the Qing Dynasty, in which meat such as sauce elbow, pork head meat, Zhangcha duck and vegetables such as leek, radish and bean sprout were involved.
6. What does dragon look up to eat: fried beans
February 2 in the northwest, Minxian County, Gansu Province and other places have the habit of eating fried beans, which means that at the beginning of spring every year, at the second meeting of February in Minxian County, people who come to the wave fair buy big yellow pears and take them home to show their filial respect to the elderly, so the "February 2" temple fair is also called the "yellow pear fair".
7. What does dragon look up to eat: supporting cake
Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai keep the custom of eating "supporting cake" on February 2. It means that if you eat cake, you won't have back pain.
8. What does dragon head up to eat: mustard rice
There is a custom of eating mustard rice on February 2. There is a common saying in the local dialect, which means that if you eat mustard rice on this day, you won't get skin disease for a year. There is a certain scientific reason, because mustard is rich in vitamins and chlorophyll, which are good for your skin.
9. What does dragon look up to eat: popcorn
At that time, Empress Wu became the emperor, which annoyed the Jade Emperor. The Jade Emperor told the Dragon King of the four seas not to rain on the earth for three years, but a yellow dragon violated his will. When the Jade Emperor learned about it, he beat it down and put it under the stupa. The Jade Emperor said that if he wanted to go back to the heaven, he would not have the golden bean blossom. In order to save the Dragon King, people look everywhere for the golden beans. On the second day of February of the next year, when people were turning over the corn seeds, they suddenly thought that the corn was like a golden bean. When they stir fry it and it blooms, isn't it just "golden bean blooms"? They burst the corn and set a case in the yard to burn incense for the "golden bean" that blooms.
10. What does dragon look up to eat: fried noodles
In BEIXIANG District, Shexian County, Huangshan City, Anhui Province, every second of February in the lunar calendar, when the lunch starts at noon, every family eats fried noodles. Stir fried noodles are cut into small pieces, and then stir fried with shredded meat, tofu oil, asparagus and vegetables. Because the cooked noodles look like worms, it means that we all fry the worms together and eat them all.
11. What does dragon look up to eat: Noodles
Northerners like to eat a bowl of "longxumian" on February 2 to get a good start. Longxumian evolved from Shandong longmian, which is named for its thin hair and flowing water like a silver dragon into the sea. It's said that there was a chef in the imperial dining room of Ming Dynasty. On the first day of spring, he made a kind of noodles as thin as hair, just like a dragon beard. The emperor's appetite was very big, and his face was very happy. Since then, the fried delicacies have become a very fashionable snack. February 2 longxumian food has a good meaning of "smooth and smooth, happy".
12. What does the Dragon look up to eat: noodles and flags
On February 2 of the lunar calendar, people in Zibo have the traditional custom of eating fried noodles and flags. The so-called face flag is a piece of dough cut into diamonds, 3-2cm long and 3-2cm wide. Fry the dried flour flag with white anti soil.