What traditional food do you eat at the vernal equinox?

What traditional food do you eat at the vernal equinox? The vernal equinox is the solar term of spring among the 24 solar terms, and each solar term has its own different meanings and customs. So what are the traditional customs of the vernal equinox? Next, I will share with you pictures of what traditional food we eat at the Spring Equinox.

What traditional food to eat at the vernal equinox 1 What traditional food to eat at the vernal equinox

1, eat spring vegetables and drink spring soup

There is a folk custom of "eating spring vegetables at the vernal equinox". This kind of spring vegetable refers to a kind of "wild amaranth" that grows by the ditch in the wild. When I was a child, the garden in the rural yard would be full of this wild vegetable in spring, which was green and beautiful. Picked spring vegetables will be made into "spring soup" with appropriate amount of meat. It is said that "spring soup is not dirty, it washes the liver and intestines, and the whole family is safe and healthy", which is delicious and implies beauty.

But now it seems that "spring vegetables" do not refer to this kind. Others such as lettuce, shepherd's purse, Toona sinensis bud, leek, spinach, Chinese cabbage and so on. , can be called "spring vegetables". After all, they are all seasonal vegetables bred in spring, and the taste and taste are the best at this time. They can be fried or cooked in soup. The ancients paid attention to "harmony between man and nature" when they did things and ate.

Step 2 eat bean flour cakes

Bean flour cake is a kind of northern snack "snowballing", which is made of yellow wheat or glutinous rice noodles, bean paste stuffing, sugar and other raw materials. Rolled in golden beans, it becomes a snack suitable for all ages with golden outside, soft and sweet taste. Northerners eat "bean flour cakes" at the vernal equinox to ward off evil spirits and pray for blessings.

According to legend, this snack is that a eunuch named Xiao Lv in the Qing Palace accidentally dropped a cake dedicated to Cixi into the soybean. Cixi asked what kind of cake it was. Xiao Lv, who used his quick wits to please Cixi, said it was "snowballing", and Cixi smiled happily, so this snack spread.

Step 3 eat radish

Radish has the reputation of "little ginseng", and some local people have the custom of eating radish on the vernal equinox. They can eat it raw, make jiaozi, make radish and even make pies.

When the temperature gets warmer in spring, the climate is inevitably dry, and people fall asleep easily in spring. Eating more radishes is of great benefit to relieving spring sleepiness. In the past, the old man put a radish on the bed after beginning of spring, and picked it up and chewed it when he coughed because of spring fatigue, which had the effect of nourishing body fluid and quenching thirst, indicating that people still attached great importance to radish as a food.

Step 4 eat glutinous rice balls

Tangyuan can be eaten not only in the Lantern Festival, but also in the vernal equinox. People will eat it, put endless dumplings on the ground with small sticks, and attract birds such as sparrows who spoil food to eat. It's called "sticking sparrow's mouth" In fact, it is more of a custom, expecting sparrows not to spoil food and expecting a bumper harvest in the coming year.

Step 5 eat sun cakes

Sun cake is also a kind of snack circulating in the north, which is more common in Beijing. People have the custom of "offering sacrifices to the sun" on the vernal equinox, so they use "sun cakes" as a tribute to the sun.

The main raw materials of sun cakes are glutinous rice, sugar, red dates and so on. Make dough with glutinous rice, then steam it in a pot, then divide it into several small portions, then roll it into dough, plug it with red jujube paste and other auxiliary materials, and finally press the image of the sun god of "golden bird" on the surface with a mold. Eating it on the vernal equinox means "step by step" for the next year's life.

What traditional food do you eat at the vernal equinox Picture 2 What traditional northern food do you eat at the vernal equinox?

1, eat spring cakes

A delicious food that northerners will eat at the vernal equinox is called spring cake. The so-called spring cake is to spread the flour into a thin dough, and then wrap it with fresh vegetables such as shredded cucumber, shredded carrot, shredded onion and shredded cauliflower, plus thin egg skin and shredded pork with sauce, which is called spring cake. Eating spring cakes at the vernal equinox is a traditional dietary custom in the north. Eating spring cakes can be smooth all year round, which is also the yearning for a better life.

2. Spring bamboo shoots

Spring bamboo shoots are called the first fresh bamboo shoots in spring. There used to be no bamboo shoots in the north, but with the development of economy, bamboo shoots from the south have also entered the market in the north, so now northern Renye Fang is used to eating bamboo shoots at the vernal equinox. Jiaozi fried with bamboo shoots and shredded pork, or with sauerkraut unique to the north, or chopped into bamboo shoots, is especially delicious.

Step 3 worry

Stews in Northeast China are very famous, so in a solar term that China people attach importance to, such as the vernal equinox, stews are naturally indispensable. Among the traditional stews, pork stewed vermicelli, chicken stewed mushrooms, goose stewed in iron pot and pig-killing dishes are all very classic northeast stews. Therefore, at the vernal equinox, these traditional stews are naturally indispensable on the table. 4. Toona sinensis buds

4. Toona sinensis buds

Toona sinensis bud is not a fresh vegetable that can be eaten all year round, but a unique fresh vegetable in the vernal equinox, which is a Toona sinensis leaf sprouting on a Toona sinensis tree. At this time, the buds of Toona sinensis are particularly fresh and tender. It is very delicious to use it to scramble eggs or make cakes. If you miss this season, you will have to wait another year. Therefore, during the vernal equinox, northern Renye Fang likes to buy some Toona sinensis buds for cooking.

What traditional food to eat at the vernal equinox Figure 3 Traditional customs of solar terms at the vernal equinox

1, vertical egg

Every spring equinox, tens of millions of people all over the world are doing "vertical egg" experiments. Choose a smooth and symmetrical fresh egg that has just been laid for four or five days, gently stand up and put it on the table. Although there are many losers, there are also many winners. The vernal equinox has become the best time for vertical egg games, so there is a saying that when the vernal equinox arrives, the eggs will be beautiful.

Step 2 stick the sparrow's mouth

According to custom, farmers have a holiday on the vernal equinox. Every family should eat dumplings, and a dozen or thirty dumplings that don't contain hearts should be cooked and placed on the edge of outdoor fields with thin bamboo forks, which is called sticking sparrows' mouths so as not to destroy crops.

3. Spring Festival

The vernal equinox is also the beginning of the Spring Festival. Spring Festival, that is, the beginning of sweeping graves to worship ancestors, is also called Spring Festival. Before sweeping the grave, a grand ancestor worship ceremony should be held in the ancestral hall, pigs and sheep should be slaughtered, drummers should be invited to play, and the ritual students should read the eulogy and quote three praises. At the beginning of the spring equinox, the graves of ancestors and distant ancestors are swept first, and the whole family and the whole village have to be dispatched on a large scale, and the team often reaches hundreds or even thousands. After the ancestral graves of Kaiji and Yuanzu were swept, they were divided into rooms to sweep the graves of ancestors in each room, and finally each family swept the graves privately.

Step 4 fly a kite

The vernal equinox is a good time for children to fly kites, even adults should take part. In the gentle spring breeze, people run freely in the open space and compete to see whose kite can fly higher and farther.

Step 5 drink spring wine

China, Zhejiang and Shanxi's Vernal Equinox Wine-making Custom. It is recorded in an ancient book: "The wine brewed by the vernal equinox is stored in an urn, and the dross melts after three days. Its color is red, and its taste will not be bad for a long time. This is the so-called vernal equinox wine. "

Step 6 worship god

The folk festivals around the vernal equinox are February 15, Zhang Kai's birthday: Wang Sheng, also known as "Chen", was a warrior of the Tang Dynasty, Chen Yuanguang, who made great contributions to Zhangzhou and became the patron saint of Zhangzhou after his death. February 19 is the birthday of Guanyin Bodhisattva. Every birthday, many believers will go to Guanyin Temple to worship. On February 25th, Sanshan King Sacrifice Day: Sanshan King refers to Dushan, Mingshan, Jinshan and other mountain gods in Jieyang County, Chaozhou Prefecture, Guangdong Province. In his early years, he was honored as a patron saint by Chaozhou Hakka immigrants, so his followers were mainly Hakkas.

7. Memorial Day

Sacrificing the sun is the most important activity of the ancient royal family at the vernal equinox. In the Zhou dynasty, there was a sacrificial ceremony at the vernal equinox. The Book of Rites records that "the altar" and "the vernal equinox" have been passed down from generation to generation. In the Qing Dynasty, Pan Rongbi wrote "Ji Sheng at the Age of Emperor Jingdi": "The vernal equinox and autumn are divided into national ceremonies, and scholars should not worship them."