What festival is it to eat spring rolls?

The festival of eating spring rolls is the beginning of spring.

Spring rolls, also known as spring cakes, spring plates and pancakes, are a traditional food in China folk festivals. They are popular all over China, especially in Jiangnan and other places. In the south of China, they don't eat jiaozi during the Spring Festival, but they eat spring rolls and sesame dumplings, and Tomb-Sweeping Day also eats them in Zhangzhou. Besides serving one's own family, it is often used to entertain guests. Spring rolls have a long history and evolved from ancient spring cakes.

To make spring rolls, cut the leek into 3cm-long sections, spread the shredded pork with a little salt and water starch slurry, then spread it with warm oil, then put it in a pot, add soy sauce, salt and leek, stir-fry a little to make spring rolls, then beat the eggs into a bowl, add flour and water, stir it into a thin paste, and spread it into four skins with a frying spoon for use.

Put the skin on the chopping block, roll it into stuffing, put batter on the seal and seal it, then make four youth rolls one by one. Put the pot on a high fire, pour the oil, put the spring rolls in when it is 70% to 80% hot, and fry until the skin is crisp and golden. When eating, cut the spring rolls into pieces and put them on a plate.

The legend of eating spring rolls:

According to legend, in the Song Dynasty, a scholar named Hao Chen and a clever wife named Ayu fell in love deeply. Hao Chen is absorbed in reading, but she often forgets to eat. This made Ayu very worried. She finally came up with the idea of making spring cakes, which can be eaten as both a meal and a dish.

Chen Hao eats spring cakes while reading. The food is delicious, which makes him more motivated to study. Soon, Hao Chen went to Beijing to take the exam, and Ayu made spring cakes and fried them for her husband as dry food. As a result, Hao Chen won the first prize, and happily handed over the spring cake dry food made by his wife to the examiner for tasting. As soon as the examiner ate it, he was full of praise and immediately wrote a poem named Spring Roll.

Since then, the reputation of spring rolls has been greatly boosted, and it has spread to every household among the people, forming the custom of eating spring rolls for every household. Later, spring rolls have become exquisite gifts for local officials to pay tribute to the emperor, called jade cakes. The emperor gave them to the minister of food, saying that jade cakes are delicious food, which means welcoming the spring, biting spring and blessing.