Spring Festival why there is a custom to eat spring rolls

Every year on the day of Spring Festival, most people have to eat spring cakes, called "bite spring". The custom of eating spring cakes has a long history. The Ming Palace History - Diet Good Shang" recorded: "one day before the spring, Shun Tianfu Street, outside the Dongzhimen, where the relatives, courtiers, officials, warriors ...... to the next day when the spring, no noble and lowly are chewing radish, called 'Bite Spring', mutual feast and eat spring cakes and vegetables."

This custom can be traced back to Jin, and the rise in the Tang. "Guanzhong record" said the Tang people "in the spring day for spring cake, to spring artemisia, yellow leeks, polygonum buds wrapped" and it will be given to each other, to take the meaning of welcoming spring. Song Lu You has a poem: "spring spring plate holiday new". It is recorded that the Song dynasty court of chestnut spring cake is "green wisps of red silk, gold chicken and jade swallow, the preparation of the most exquisite, each plate is worth ten thousand dollars." Spring cake as thin as a cicada's wing, recorded here is a thin surface in a kind of pan on the wipe, that is, into a very thin transparent cake, used to wrap the caper filling, and then fried in oil out of the spring rolls (also known as spring pan). Spring cakes and spring rolls were the symbols of spring in the minds of the ancients.

Spring pancakes are made of white flour rolled into a round cake, which is branded. Qing Dynasty "Tune Dinji" records the spring pancake method is "rolled and wrapped in ham, chicken and other things, or seasonal vegetables, deep-fried for guests. And salted meat waist, garlic flowers, black dates, walnut kernels, foreign sugar (sugar) **** crushed, rolled spring cake cut." This was the way it was eaten in the Qing Dynasty. But now it has evolved into spring pancakes smeared with sweet flour sauce, rolled with yangjiao green onions and then eaten. Springtime, spring onion buds, fragrant and crisp, especially in spring, everything is recovering, young onions first, people taste fresh, but also "bite spring" meaning. In addition also pay attention to eat and vegetables, is to use the heart of seasonal vegetables, such as leeks, spinach and other shredded, called fried and vegetables.

Some places also pay attention to the sauce belly shredded chicken and other cooked meat sandwiched between the spring pancakes to eat. Eating spring pancake is concerned about and vegetables wrapped up, eat from the beginning to the end, called "head and tail", to take the meaning of good luck. Eat spring pancakes, the whole family sitting around together, the branded spring pancakes in the steamer, eat as you take, in order to eat a hot.

Ming and Qing dynasties, with the development and improvement of cooking technology, spring plate changed into a small and exquisite spring rolls, not only is the folk food, but also become one of the court's pastries, mounted the Hall of Elegance, by the Emperor Qianlong's appreciation. The Qing dynasty's full Manchu banquet one hundred and twenty-eight dishes, spring rolls is one of the nine dim sum.