Literally, spring food only refers to spring food. In spring, the human body enters a new cycle, and what it needs is food that can have intercourse with Yin and Yang. People in many places advocate eating more wild vegetables in spring to make the blood clean. Japanese people go into the mountains to pick vegetables in spring. Italians will prepare a lot of fennel in spring, boil it and mash it with olive oil to eat. People in China eat wormwood in spring and make wormwood balls, wormwood cakes and wormwood cakes. French people eat white asparagus in spring. The sexy white asparagus is steamed and melted in the mouth with hot cream, like a spring kiss.

Spring meal also has the sacred significance of the rebirth of the four seasons in the earth. In Catholic countries, spring meals also refer to sacrifices. I once ate roast lambs at Easter in the spring in Greece. Those lambs were sacrificed to God instead of human beings. Adding herbs such as rosemary and thyme to roast mutton also has a calming effect.

Food in spring also means restoring life. Chilean novelist Ayande wrote a book about the excitement of eating food. Many westerners believe that eating food that will cause Chun Qing's attack is related to women's body shape. They all advocate freshness, such as strawberries, figs, grapes and apples, which are fruits of life and can bring vitality to life. This stems from the tradition of goddess worship.

The foods that China people think will rejuvenate the body are mostly related to the body shape of men, and some of them are dry wrinkled things, such as ginseng, angelica and dried yam. These Chinese herbal medicines have the functions of supporting yang and fixing essence, and can rejuvenate yang. This is related to the patriarchal culture in the East. Spring dishes in the east and the west are really different, and men and women are different.

The word "spring rice", look at this word carefully. One day in spring, it would be nice if the traditional word "food" was dismantled. Ancient man-made words are really wise. In spring, all grass plants on the earth need sunshine to moisten them; Spring vegetables can also be seen from the perspective of natural ecology, that is, to eat well. The so-called grain grown according to solar terms must conform to the goodness of heaven and earth. For example, beans should be planted in spring, so eating all kinds of bean sprouts, such as soybean sprouts, black bean sprouts, broad bean sprouts and mung bean sprouts, is conducive to the balance of the body. Shepherd's purse, Malantou, Lycium barbarum, Toona sinensis and dandelion grown in spring can clear away heat and detoxify.

In ancient China, people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces had a spring meal of seven grass porridge, that is, porridge was cooked with seven kinds of wild vegetables in spring, which was a sacred product of Taoist health preservation. But I don't know why this eating custom disappeared. Instead, there was seven grass porridge in Kyoto, Japan, which preserved the five mountains. The most important folk food in Taiwan Province Province, namely Qingming Runbing, also originated from the custom of Tang people to eat spiced spring dishes in spring. Eating spiced spring rolls in spring, including sprouts, cabbage, dried bean curd, shredded eggs and shredded pork, is the most spring food.