What dishes are eaten at the beginning of spring? What traditional vegetables are eaten at the beginning of spring?

The Beginning of Spring is the first of the 24 solar terms. It is classified as the first month of the lunar calendar in the Ming and Qing dynasties. It arrives on February 3-5 of the Gregorian calendar (around the first day of the first lunar month) when the sun reaches 315° of the ecliptic longitude. So, what dishes can we eat on the Beginning of Spring? What foods can we cook by ourselves? Below, please take a look at the introduction of Encyclopedia Knowledge Network!

Contents of this article

1. What dishes should we eat on the beginning of spring?

2. What traditional vegetables should be eaten during the beginning of spring?

3. Is it better to clean before or after the beginning of spring?

What dishes to eat on the beginning of spring

Ingredients: Wash a handful of leeks, 2-3 eggs, salt, and dried shrimps in appropriate amounts.

Method: Wash and cut the chives into small pieces, crack the eggs and beat them. Heat the vegetable oil in a wok, add the dried shrimps and stir-fry until fragrant. Then pour in the beaten eggs, and when the eggs are slightly fixed in shape, pour in the chives. After stir-frying for a while, add salt, minced ginger, and MSG, and stir-fry for a while.

Efficacy: Leek contains a lot of dietary fiber, which can clean the intestinal wall and promote defecation. After adding dried shrimp, it is more suitable for spring consumption. This dish is rich in nutrition, contains less calories, and can warm the blood and warm the waist and knees. It is a good spring home-cooked dish.

Main ingredients: peas, sirloin steak, two fresh red peppers, soy sauce, sugar, cornstarch, pepper, salt, cooking wine, Sichuan pepper powder, garlic cloves, and cooking oil.

Method: First, dice the beef tenderloin, put it in a bowl, add soy sauce, a little sugar, cooking wine, pepper, and water, mix well, then add cornstarch and continue to mix well. Boil water, add a small spoonful of oil and a little salt, pour the washed peas and rice into it and blanch for one minute, remove it and soak it in cold water until it cools down for later use;

Slice the red pointed pepper, heat oil in a pan, add a spoonful of cooking oil to the diced beef, mix well and add into the hot oil, stir-fry until the beef is about 70% cooked, then set aside; add the pepper to the remaining oil in the pan and stir-fry until fragrant, then chop the garlic cloves into minced meat and stir-fry together until fragrant, then add the blanched peas and fried beef into the pan, stir-fry evenly, sprinkle with a little pepper powder and salt to taste, finally drizzle with a little sauce and turn off the heat, stir-fry again while the residual heat in the pan and serve.

Efficacy: Beef is nutritious and healthy, and can quickly improve physical strength. Peas are rich in various nutrients needed by the human body, especially high-quality protein, which can improve the body's disease resistance and recovery ability. It is also rich in crude fiber, which can promote large intestine peristalsis, keep bowel movements smooth, and play a role in cleaning the large intestine.

Ingredients: black fungus, lean meat, 2 eggs, cucumber, oil, cooking wine, pepper, soy sauce, salt, chicken essence, starch, onion, ginger, and minced garlic as appropriate.

Preparation method: Soak black fungus, wash it, tear it into small pieces, and slice the cucumber; put the lean meat slices into a bowl, pour a little cooking wine, soy sauce and a little bit of starch or tenderizer, mix well and marinate for a while; crack the eggs into a bowl and beat them; put the frying pan on the fire, add oil, and when the oil is hot, spread the eggs, beat them, and serve; add more oil, add the Sichuan peppercorns when the oil is hot, and remove them after the Sichuan peppercorns change color and emit fragrance, then add the meat slices and stir-fry, add the onions, ginger, minced garlic and soy sauce when they are cooked, and continue to stir-fry after they are colored, add the eggs, fungus and cucumber, add a little salt, you can also add some soup or water, and finally add some chicken essence, stir-fry evenly and serve.

Efficacy: Fungus has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying. It is very suitable to be eaten at the turn of winter and spring. The addition of lean meat and eggs supplements the body with rich protein, but the fat content is very low. Eating it in spring will not make you gain weight and it is delicious.

What traditional vegetables should be eaten during the beginning of spring?

Spring plate is also called "five spicy dishes", which is made of five kinds of spicy vegetables cut into pieces and served on a plate. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "Five spicy dishes are on New Year's Day and the beginning of spring, onions, garlic, leeks, mugwort, mustard and other spicy and tender vegetables are mixed and eaten to welcome the new year." This custom was passed down to the Tang, Song, Jin and Yuan dynasties. For example, Yelu Chucai of the Yuan Dynasty wrote a poem "Poor Spring Plate Made in the Post Station on the Beginning of Spring", which mentioned that lotus root, peas, onions, mugwort, leeks and vermicelli were used to make spring plates.

In the Ningjin area, people cut onions, garlic, peppers, ginger and mustard into a dish called the Five Spicy Dishes. It can be eaten with wine or as a gift. Some people also give green chives and yellow tangerines as gifts.

The Four Seasons Treasure Mirror of the Tang Dynasty records: "At the beginning of spring, people eat reeds, spring pancakes, and lettuce, which is called 'vegetable plate'." It can be seen that people in the Tang Dynasty had already started to try spring plates and eat spring pancakes. The so-called spring pancake, also known as lotus leaf pancake, is actually a kind of hot-dough pancake - use two small pieces of water, apply oil in the middle, roll it into a pancake, and after it is baked, it can be peeled into two pieces. Spring pancakes are used to roll vegetables, including cooked vegetables and stir-fried vegetables.

The Qing Dynasty book "Diao Ding Ji" once recorded the method of making spring pancakes: "Roll out the dough and wrap it with ham, chicken, or seasonal vegetables, and fry it for guests. Grind salted pork loin, garlic, black dates, walnuts, foreign sugar, and white sugar together, roll it into spring pancakes and cut it into sections." This was the way to eat it in the Qing Dynasty. The current spring pancakes are still made by baking or steaming in ancient times. The size depends on personal preference. When eating, some people like to spread sweet noodle sauce and roll it with spring onions. In some places, they also pay attention to using cooked meat such as braised pork belly and chicken shreds to eat in spring pancakes.

In addition to spring pancakes, spring rolls are also a kind of festive food that people often eat on the Spring Beginning Day. Spring rolls evolved from the ancient custom of eating spring plates on the Spring Beginning Day. In the Song Dynasty, there was a kind of "rolled pancake", which was a transitional type between spring pancakes and spring rolls. In the Yuan Dynasty, "Complete Collection of Things to Use at Home" already recorded that spring pancakes were wrapped with fillings and fried before being eaten. In the Qing Dynasty, the name of spring rolls appeared.

Spring rolls are made by wrapping the fillings in a round, thin, baked dough into long strips, and then deep-frying them until they are golden brown and float. The fillings can be meat or vegetarian, salty or sweet.

According to the Han Dynasty Cui Shi's book "Four People's Monthly Orders", my country has had a dietary custom of "eating raw vegetables on the Spring Beginning Day... to welcome the new year" for a long time. After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the so-called "biting spring" mainly refers to eating radishes on the Spring Beginning Day. For example, Liu Ruoyu's "Zhuo Zhong Zhi·Dietary Goods Record" in the Ming Dynasty recorded: "On the next day of the Spring Beginning, no matter how rich or poor, everyone chews radishes", which is called "biting spring". Fu Cha Dunchong's "Yanjing Sui Shi Ji" in the Qing Dynasty also recorded: "Da Chun is the beginning of spring. On this day, rich families eat spring pancakes, and women buy radishes and eat them, which is called "biting spring", which is said to ward off spring fatigue."

Is it better to clean before or after the beginning of spring?

You can sweep the room before and after the beginning of spring, and there are generally no taboos. However, it is not suitable to clean in the first month after the New Year. The history of holding commemorative activities on the day of "Beginning of Spring" is long, and it has appeared at least 3,000 years ago. At that time, the worshipped Ju Mang was also called Mang God, the spring god in charge of farming. According to historical records, the Zhou Dynasty's ceremony to welcome the "Beginning of Spring" was roughly as follows: Three days before the beginning of spring, the emperor began to fast, and on the day of the beginning of spring, he personally led the three dukes, nine ministers, princes and officials to the suburbs of eight miles in the east to welcome the spring and pray for a good harvest. So why go to the eastern suburbs to welcome the spring? This is because the Ju Mang God worshipped in the welcoming spring activities lives in the east. Later, the location of the welcoming spring activities was not only in the eastern suburbs. For example, the "Dream of Lianglu" in the Song Dynasty recorded that "On the beginning of spring, the prime minister and below came to the court to congratulate." This proves that the welcoming spring activities have entered the palace from the suburbs and became mutual worship between officials. In the Qing Dynasty, the welcoming spring ceremony evolved into an important folk activity that attracted social attention and the participation of the whole people. According to the "Yanjing Sui Shi Ji", "One day before the beginning of spring, officials of Shuntian Prefecture welcomed spring at the Spring Field one mile outside Dongzhimen. On the day of the beginning of spring, the Ministry of Rites presented the Spring Mountain Throne and Shuntian Prefecture presented the Spring Ox Picture. After the ceremony, they returned to the office, led the Spring Ox and hit it, which was called beating spring." The "Qing Jia Lu" written by a Qing Dynasty person pointed out that the ceremony of worshiping gods and ancestors at the beginning of spring, although not as grand as the New Year's Day on the first day of the first lunar month, was larger in scale than the winter solstice.