Chunpan
Spring plate, also known as "spiced plate", is finely cut from five kinds of spicy lettuce. Compendium of Materia Medica says: "Five spicy dishes are made by mixing onions, garlic, leeks, wormwood and mustard in the spring of New Year's Day to welcome the New Year." This custom has been spread to the Tang, Song, Jin and Yuan Dynasties. For example, Yelu Chucai of Yuan Dynasty wrote a poem "Poor Spring Banquet on the First Day of Spring", in which he said that lotus root, pea, onion, Artemisia selengensis, leek and vermicelli were used for the spring banquet.
Ningjin area is mixed with onion, garlic, pepper, ginger and mustard, which is called spiced board. It can be served with wine or given to each other as a gift. And green leeks and oranges.
spring pancake
Tang's "Four Seasons Baojing" records: "beginning of spring eats reed, spring cake and lettuce, and there is no' dish'." It can be seen that people in the Tang Dynasty have begun to try spring vegetables and eat spring cakes. The so-called spring cake, also called lotus leaf cake, is actually a kind of hot flour cake-two small pieces of water, oiled in the middle, rolled into pancakes, and peeled into two pieces when cooked. Spring cakes are used to roll vegetables, including cooked vegetables and stir-fried dishes.
spring roll
In addition to spring cakes, spring rolls are also a holiday food that Japanese people often eat at the beginning of spring. Spring rolls evolved from the custom of eating spring rolls that day in ancient beginning of spring. There was a kind of "rolled pancake" in Song Dynasty, which was a transitional type between spring cake and spring roll. In the Yuan Dynasty's Complete Collection of Household Articles, it has been recorded that spring cakes are wrapped in paper and fried before eating. In the Qing dynasty, the name of spring rolls appeared.
Small carrot
According to Cui's "Four-person Moon Order" in the Han Dynasty, China has long had the dietary custom of "eating lettuce to welcome the new year in beginning of spring", but after the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the so-called "biting spring" mainly refers to eating radish in beginning of spring. For example, in the book "Think carefully, eat well and remember well" written by Liu Ruoyu in the Ming Dynasty, there is a saying: "When you go to beginning of spring the next day, everyone, regardless of rank, chews carrots", which is called it. Fu Cha Deng Chong's "Yanjing at Eighteen" in Qing Dynasty
Historical Records also records: "When spring comes, it is beginning of spring, which means that rich people eat more spring cakes and women buy more radishes. It is said that they can bite the spring, but they are sleepy in spring. "