"Spring equinox" this festival in the eyes of the ancients is a very important festival, in modern astronomy also has a very important significance, this day the sun directly above the equator, the most obvious is to divide the day and night equally, which also confirms the meaning of this "point" word in the spring equinox, Dong Zhongshu of the Han Dynasty said in "Spring and Autumn Dew - Yin and Yang In and Out": The spring equinox, yin and yang are half, so the day and night are equal and cold and hot. It seems that the wisdom of the ancients is still very good.
In ancient times and in the old days, there are many customs and activities on the day of the spring equinox, such as offering the day, worshiping ancestors, flying kites, erecting eggs, sending spring cattle, etc., and the aspect of eating is also very exquisite, after all, each festival will have its own corresponding "food customs", today I will talk to you about what traditional foods must be tasted on the day of the spring equinox, some ingredients can eat a healthy and good body, some ingredients are more symbolic, there are people who hope to eat blessings and peace in it.
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1. Eat spring vegetables and drink spring soup
Folk have the custom of "spring equinox, eat spring vegetables", this spring vegetable refers to a kind of "wild amaranth" that grows on the edge of the wild ditch, when I was a child, the garden of the rural yard will be full of this wild vegetable in the spring, and the green and oily smoke is beautiful. The picked spring vegetables will be made into a "spring soup" with an appropriate amount of meat to drink, and there is a saying that "spring soup is dirty, liver and intestines are washed, the family is young and old, safe and healthy", which is both delicious and has a beautiful meaning.
But now it seems that "spring vegetables" does not refer to this kind, others such as lettuce, lettuce, toon sprouts, leeks, spinach, vegetable hearts, etc. can be called "spring vegetables", after all, they are all seasonal vegetables bred in the spring, the taste and taste are the best at this time, you can fry to eat or cook soup, the ancients do things, eat things to pay attention to "the unity of heaven and man", eat more seasonal vegetables to have a healthier body.
2. Eat bean noodle cake
Bean noodle cake is the northern snack "donkey rolling", made of yellow rice noodles or rice noodles, bean paste filling, sugar and other raw materials, rolling in the golden yellow soybean noodles, it has become a kind of golden outside, soft taste, fresh and sweet into the heart of a kind of snack suitable for all ages, northerners have the meaning of eating "bean noodle cake" on the day of the spring equinox to ward off evil and pray.
Legend has it that this snack was a eunuch named Little Donkey in the Qing Palace, who accidentally dropped the pastry presented to Cixi into the soybean noodles, and Cixi asked what kind of pastry it was, and the little donkey was also in a hurry, taking his own name to please Cixi, saying that it was "donkey rolling", Cixi smiled and was happy, so this snack spread.
3. Eat radish
Radish has the reputation of "little ginseng", and there is a local folk custom of eating radish on the day of the spring equinox, which can be eaten raw, and can also be made into dumplings stuffed with radish, buns and even pies.
Spring temperature warmer, the climate is inevitably dry, people are prone to spring sleepiness and lack of energy, and eating more radish to relieve spring sleepiness has great benefits, the previous old man will put a radish on the bed after the spring, when making spring sleepy cough and other small problems, take up and nibble twice, there is a role in quenching thirst, indicating that people still attach great importance to the ingredient of radish.
4. Eat tangyuan
Tangyuan is not only eaten on the day of the Lantern Festival, the old folk tradition will also eat tangyuan on the day of the spring equinox, people will eat tangyuan, and the tangyuan that cannot be eaten will be inserted in the field with a small wooden stick to attract small birds such as sparrows that waste grain to eat, taking the name "sticky finches mouth", in fact, it is more to use this custom to expect that the finches will not waste grain, and the grain in the next year can be harvested.
5. Eat sun cake
Sun cake is also a snack spread in the north, mostly found in the Beijing area, in ancient times there was a custom of "festival day" on the day of the spring equinox, and this "sun cake" was used as a tribute to the day.
The main raw materials of sun cake are glutinous rice, sugar, red dates, etc., with glutinous rice and dough, and then steamed in a pot, and then divided into a number of small doses, and then the small agents rolled into a dough, take the red date mud and other accessories to make a filling wrapped up, and finally use a mold on the surface to press out the image of the sun god "Golden Bird Round Light", and eat the meaning of "backgammon" for the next year's life career on the day of the spring equinox.
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Old tradition, old exquisite, most of them must have the realm of the ancients' "unity of heaven and man", what to do, what to eat, must be combined with the festival, climate, the food tradition of the spring equinox is like this, to eat seasonal vegetables "spring vegetables", to drive away spring sleepy to eat "radish", to eat "sun cake" on the day of sacrifice, to drive away evil spirits and pray for blessings to eat "bean noodle cake", to reduce waste in spring ploughing, to pray for the next year to eat "tangyuan", whether there is a scientific basis or not, it is the traditional culture that we have handed down, and everyone should know more.
I am Ahu, the above is today and share with you the spring equinox day to eat 5 kinds of traditional food, like can pay attention to me, tomorrow there is more wonderful content, thank you for reading, see you tomorrow.