Why do people eat spring cakes in the spring?

Eating spring cakes on the first day of spring is a custom that originated in the Tang Dynasty and has the meaning of welcoming spring.

Eating spring cakes in spring is also called "biting spring". Due to the spring, spring, everything is recovering, a variety of vegetables issued by the shoots, people taste fresh, the ancients wrapped with seasonal vegetables, rolled into a roll steamed or deep-fried, named spring cake, implying a bumper crop, but also a symbol of spring, and it will be given to each other, to take the meaning of the spring. Legend has it that eating the spring cake and which is wrapped in a variety of vegetables, will make the agricultural seedlings thrive, six animals thrive. Some regions believe that eating the spring cake wrapped rolled celery, leeks, will make people more diligent (celery) labor, life is more long (leek).

The earliest spring pancake is with a dish in a dish, called "spring plate". Records on the spring plate, can be seen in the Zhou Chu, "the customs and localities": "is no day of the common people worship life, on the five Xin plate. Wuxin, so the five viscera gas." Here, the five Xin disk that is the spring disk. The Four Seasons Po Jing" said "spring day food rococo, spring cake, lettuce, the number of spring plate." In the Tang and Song dynasties, the spring plate has been placed on the day of spring.

The spring eating spring cake lettuce is one of the customs of spring, commonly known as chewing spring, bite spring or taste spring, spring eating spring cake has the symbolism of welcoming spring.

It has been recorded that the Song dynasty court of chestnut spring cake is silk, golden chicken jade swallow, prepared extremely exquisite, each plate worth ten thousand dollars. Spring cake as thin as a cicada's wing, here is recorded with thin noodles 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 are the symbol of spring in the minds of the ancients.