What does it mean to eat spring rolls during the Spring Festival?

Spring rolls are to welcome the Spring Festival, which means the beginning of spring, good luck and disaster relief.

Eating spring rolls in the spring is a traditional folk custom in China. Spring rolls, also known as pancakes, spring cakes and spring plates, have a long history of development and evolved from ancient spring cakes. They are very popular all over the country, especially in the south of the Yangtze River. They can be used for personal consumption as well as entertaining guests.

According to legend, there was a scholar in the Song Dynasty who studied hard all day for the exam and often forgot to eat and sleep. His wife tried to persuade him, but in vain. So she thought of a way to make rice into pancakes and roll them into tubes with meat stuffing, which can be eaten as both rice and vegetables. From then on, it was named Spring Roll, which became popular all over the country.

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Spring rolls have a long history in China, and northern Renye Fang is called "Spring Cake". It is said that it existed in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It was called "spring vegetables" at that time. At that time, when people went to beginning of spring, they spread pancakes made of flour on the plate and ate them with delicate vegetables, so they were called "spring dishes". At that time, not only did beginning of spring eat it on this day, but people also brought "spring dishes" during their spring outing.

In the Tang and Song Dynasties, this trend became more prevalent. The famous poet Du Fu's poem "Spring Lettuce" and Lu You's poem "Spring Stories" truly reflect this kind of life custom of people in Tang and Song Dynasties. In the Tang dynasty, the spring plate was also called the spiced plate.