What is the traditional food in early spring?

Beginning of spring is a solar term and a traditional festival we celebrate. In the spring, many areas in our country will carefully prepare, especially the holiday food in the spring every year. What traditional food does beginning of spring eat? Let's find out!

1. Spring cakes: Spring rolls, also known as spring cakes and pancakes, are popular traditional snacks in Fuzhou with a long history and evolved from ancient spring cakes. Eating spring rolls at the beginning of spring is an ancient custom in China, which means welcoming spring and expecting a bumper harvest. The earliest record is biting spring and eating spring cakes. People in early spring should eat some fresh vegetables on this day, not only to prevent diseases,

It also means welcoming the new year.

2. Radish: beginning of spring eats radish, which means "biting spring". On this day, adults and children have to take a few bites of radish. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that when the yang is rising in spring, it is appropriate to eat sweet food, and radish is the best health food for this solar term. Radish is cold and spicy, and can be eaten raw or cooked. With high nutritional value and medicinal value, it is called "Little Ginseng" by the people. Radish is rich in vitamin C and trace elements, which can enhance human immunity and better prevent spring flu. Secondly, radish contains biological enzymes, mustard oil and other ingredients, which can not only promote the digestion and absorption of nutrients, but also decompose carcinogenic substances-nitrosamines.

3. Spiced dish: Spring dish, also known as "spiced dish", is to shred lettuce such as onion, leek, garlic, ginger and Artemisia selengensis into a dish, which can be used as an appetizer or as a gift for relatives and friends.