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Custom of "bite the spring"
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Chinese people observe the custom of "bite the spring" on the day of "Lichun", eating carrots or spring pancakes and rolls wrapped around fresh vegetables and meat to celebrate the arrival of Spring.
Spring pancakes. (Photo edited by Zhang Hui)
People eat "spring roll", a thin sheet of dough, rolled, stuffed and fried, at a food fair in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Feb. 3, 2016. To make and taste spring rolls with parents is part of Chinese traditions in celebration of the day of "Lichun", literally meaning the beginning of spring. (Xinhua/Jiang Hongjing)
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