After the New Year, the breath of spring comes to the face. My lover and I carried a small shovel, carried a small bamboo basket, rode a bicycle, to the suburban chestnut tree garden, the field, looking for and digging wild vegetables, picking a basket of green, fresh and spirited cabbage, garlic, mother-in-law, cleaned it when we came back, dipped in noodle sauce, bit the spring to eat spring, taste the taste of spring.
Wang Wei of the Song Dynasty wrote in the poem "Li Chun":
Mud bull whip scattered six street dust, lettuce picked leaves leaf spring.
Since then, the snow has cooled down and the plum blossoms have made the wicker new.
Lichun should have a "sense of ceremony", beat the spring cow, and then pick the lettuce to bite the spring, spring will come, the ice and snow melt, the east wind blows, the plum blossoms fall quietly, and the willow color first sprouts.
The simplest folk bite is to bite the radish. I remember when I was a child, my mother would dig up the carrots in the cellar on the day of Lichun, wash them with water spirit, let our brothers and sisters creak and "bite" a breath, she also had to "bite" a few bites, while eating while chanting a few folk songs: "Eat radish, bite and bite spring." The days are long and naturally warm. Change clothes frequently, and it is advisable to cover the spring. "Tell us that although we have played spring, the sky is still cold, we should wear thick clothes to cover the spring, "spring and autumn frost, do not have miscellaneous diseases"! The mother also said: "Radish sai pear, uh-huh." "Radish has the effect of rationalizing qi, eliminating accumulation and stagnation, coughing up phlegm, and removing dryness and vitality, and Lichun bites the radish with the beauty of everything and everything goes smoothly."
Li Chun also bites the leeks, leeks are also known as "Yang grass", with the effect of tonifying the kidneys and raising the yang hair, but also means to store and raise the qi of rising hair, and have good luck all year round! Of course, you can also bite bean sprouts, bite ginger, bite green onions, bite spinach... As the ancients said: "If you bite the grass roots, then Pepsi can do it." ”
The custom of biting spring is ancient and exists, also known as "biting life", at least to "bite" three kinds of lettuce, take its "raw" word, implying the meaning of the growth of all things. A "Biting Spring Poem" in old Beijing in the Qing Dynasty said it clearly:
Warm rhythm submerged in the spring of Ladi, and the feast lettuce remembered Fangchen.
The linggen soil is crisp with ice, and the fine strands are stacked and cut evenly.
Accompanied by the dark aroma of the dagger, the addition of food sounds to move the teeth and lips.
Imperial City Festival, take care of the white hair new.
This "bite" bites out the crisp sound of ice and snow, bites out the sweet smell of spring soil, bites out the simple wind in folklore, and bites out the tenacity of "eating bitterly, only sweet and sweet". It is said that after "biting spring", the teeth of children are strong throughout the spring, and the old man will not be sleepy.
Biting spring and eating spring have long been recorded in ancient books. The Tang Dynasty's "Four Jewels of The Treasure Mirror" records: "Li Chun, eating reeds, spring cakes, lettuce, number 'dish'. "It can be seen that the Tang people have begun to try spring plates and eat spring cakes." Du Fu, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, said in the poem "LiChun":
Spring spring plate fine lettuce, suddenly recall the two Kyo meifa time.
Plate out of the high door line white jade, dish chuan fiber hand to send green silk.
When the poet lived in Kuizhou, he missed the custom of welcoming the spring of the Taiping and prosperous times in Chang'an and Luoyang, and whenever the spring came, the high-gate household family put green silk vegetables and leeks in the white jade plate, gave each other hands, and wished each other a beautiful spring.
The vegetable plate is the spring plate, also known as the "five-spice plate". In the "Record of Customs" of the Zhou Dynasty of the Jin Dynasty, it is written: "Yuan Ri made five xin pans. Zhu Yun: "Wu Xin so the five Tibetan qi, that is, garlic, small garlic, leeks, cloud moss, coriander is also." The "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "Five spicy vegetables, which are the spring of New Year's Day, are spicy dishes such as onions, garlic, leeks, artemisia, mustard, etc., miscellaneous and edible, taking the meaning of welcoming the new, called the five spice plates." Later, it evolved into a spring plate made of lotus, peas, green onions, artemisia annua, leeks and vermicelli. On the spring day, try the spring plate and eat the spring cake, which has the meaning of welcoming spring, bursting into the yang, and praying for a good harvest.
In the poems of the ancients, many of them described the scene of biting the spring and trying the spring plate, expressing the beautiful vision of spring. Su Shi of the Northern Song Dynasty's "Sending Fan Deru" says:
Gradually feel the east wind material steep and cold, artemisia yellow leek test spring plate.
Thinking of Gyeongju In the thousand hills, the twilight clouds are fading and the grass and snow are long.
Fan Deru was the son of Fan Zhongyan, a famous northern Song dynasty minister, and a close friend of Su Shi, who was about to serve as the governor of Qingyang (Qingyang, Gansu), and Su Shi wrote this farewell poem. Fan Deru is a native of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, the natural conditions in the north are more difficult than in the south, and it is impossible to make a spring plate with artemisia annua and leeks, and it is impossible to bite the spring and taste the spring, and the poem condenses the concern for friends. Su Shi's other poem about "Spring Plate" made people feel happy after reading it.
He was transferred from the degraded Huangzhou to the deputy envoy of the Ruzhou regiment, and his mood was very happy, and he traveled with friends in the early spring and wrote poems lyrically. The first film depicts the local early spring scene, and the lower part of the cloud:
Snow foam milk flower floating noon cup, artemisia annua shoots try spring plate.
The taste of the world is pure joy.
After tasting the snowflake tea slowly, and picking the buds, young artemisia and wild shoots, making a spring plate to bite the spring, tasting the taste of spring that has just sprouted in the mountains, the poet can't help but sigh: The taste of the world is Qing Huan!
The Southern Song Dynasty poet Fang Yue specially wrote a long poem "Spring Plate", what did he use to make a spring plate?
Laifu root pine wisp ice jade, artemisia sprout fat point cold green.
The frost whip line is softer than crisp, and the snow tree raw nails are fatter than the flesh.
These turnips, bamboo shoots, artemisia annua and other vegetables, picked from the frost, plucked from the snow trees, are like the fat meat. How?
More steamed embossed layers, slightly grits into golden millet.
Green and red food reflects plum willow, and purple jade invites drunken pine bamboo.
The poet steamed and boiled, and the color was blue and purple, and the eyes were beautiful. He ate it:
Qing will be crispy rolled moon ming, chew out the palace merchant with Shifu.
The volume is bright moonlight, the chewing is the sound of silk bamboo, and the taste is the fragrance of poetry and books. Finally, the poet lamented:
You may wish to see the plum blossoms in the drizzle and enjoy the spring breeze to the huts.
Look at the plum blossoms in the spring rain, the spring wind comes to my house, although the hut is small, the spring is so big and the spring is so strong!
Southern Song Dynasty Lu You is a high-yield poet, "Spring Plate" has no reason not to write, he started a long title "Seven days before the Spring Festival, I heard that there are pre-made Spring Plate Invitee Dramas", dare to feel that the neighbors prepared to make spring plates early, Lu You is following the "dipping light", the poem said:
The buds and vegetables are clustered with green and red, and the plates are laughing.
A cake is not divided into empty hatred, how many spring breezes do you know in the twilight years?
Neighbors used tateshina buds and leeks and vegetables to make spring plates and pancakes, and served them on the table, and everyone held up a spoon to taste, laughing and talking. Biting the spring, tasting the spring cake, Lu You also sighed: this wonderful spring cake must be eaten, that is, the spring is divided to us, we are all in the twilight year, this spring wind can be used to us several times!
Whether it is a spring plate, a spring cake, a spring roll, or a spring bite, a taste of spring, or a taste of spring, it is a warm invitation to spring and a ardent expectation for spring. Yes, spring is the season of all things, full of vitality, thriving, everyone's heart is full of passion and dreams, we look forward to the spring there are so many beautiful stories happening - just like Taiwan's contemporary writer Lin Qingxuan said: Spring is not far away, never lose the mood of germination!
-Author-
Liu Qirui, male, a native of Tancheng, Shandong, a veteran literature lover, published the essay collection "The Song of that year", "Nostalgia is a Curved Blue Moon" and the short story collection "Hedong Hexi".