Why do you want to eat spring rolls during the Spring Festival?

Eating spring rolls in spring is a traditional folk custom in China, just like eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival and jiaozi on New Year's Eve. Has been with people for thousands of years. In addition to expressing the meaning of welcoming the Spring Festival, spring rolls usually contain a lot of fresh vegetables in spring, so they have high nutritional value.

On this day in beginning of spring, people wrap lettuce in cake skins and make spring cakes or spring rolls. Let's share and pray for good health. It is called "biting spring" and gradually becomes a daily food. Spring rolls are fried with dry noodles and leather bags. It evolved from the custom of eating spring vegetables on the day of spring.

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Spring rolls are a popular traditional snack in China. They are made of thin dough, rolled with stuffing and then fried. Stuffing varies from place to place and varies in size, but they are basically flat cylinders. In China, for example, most people use vegetables and meat as fillings, while some northern areas will switch to red bean paste. Spring rolls are also the second dish of the Manchu-Han banquet.

Hong Kong spring rolls are sometimes written as "spring rolls" and are one of the most common snacks in teahouses. They are about four inches long and about an inch in diameter. They are cooked in deep-frying, covered with dough, and fried until golden brown. The stuffing inside is rich, including shredded mushrooms, shredded pork, dried bamboo shoots, vermicelli, fungus and so on. The number of each dish is mostly three, and it may be cut in half by scissors when eating.

There are also variants in Hong Kong. The spring rolls sold by hawker stalls are two inches in diameter or even thicker. The skin is crisper than the traditional spring rolls and there are more fillings inside, so they are very popular as street snacks.

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