At the beginning of spring every year, most people eat spring cakes, which is called "biting spring". The custom of eating spring cakes has a long history. "The History of Good Diet in Ming Palace" records: "The day before beginning of spring, on Shuntianfu Street outside Dongzhimen, all the dignitaries, ministers, dignitaries and warriors ... When they arrived in beginning of spring the next day, all the nobles chewed radishes, called' biting spring', gave banquets to each other and ate spring cakes and vegetables." ? This custom can be traced back to the Jin Dynasty and prevailed in the Tang Dynasty. ?

Guan Zhongji said that the Tang people "made spring cakes in spring, wrapped them with Artemisia annua, leeks and Polygonum hydropiper buds" and gave each other gifts to welcome the spring. There is a poem by Lu You in Song Dynasty: "The Spring Festival is new in spring". ?

According to records, the shepherd's purse spring cake in the court of the Song Dynasty is "green HongLing, golden rooster and jade swallow, extremely exquisite, each worth ten thousand yuan." ?

Spring cakes are as thin as cicadas. What is recorded here is a spring roll (also known as spring roll) made by smearing fine flour on a flat pan, that is, making a very thin and transparent cake to wrap the shepherd's purse stuffing and then frying it. Spring cakes and spring rolls were symbols of spring in the eyes of the ancients. ?

Spring cakes are round cakes made of white flour and baked. According to Tiaodingji in Qing Dynasty, the method of making spring cakes is to "roll dough with ham, chicken and other things, or stir-fry cabbage in four seasons for customers to eat. Crush the marinated pork tenderloin, garlic, black dates, walnuts and foreign sugar (white sugar) and roll them into pieces. " This is the way to eat in the Qing Dynasty. But now it has evolved into spring cake with sweet noodle sauce and rolled onions. ?

In beginning of spring season, the tender buds of green onions are fragrant and crisp, especially when spring returns to the earth, everything recovers, and the tender onions sprout first, which means "biting spring". ?

Besides, we also pay attention to eating and cooking, that is, we use the hearts of seasonal dishes, such as leeks and spinach, and shred them. This is called frying and cooking. Some places also pay attention to eating cooked meat such as shredded pork belly and sauce chicken in spring cakes. ?

Eating spring cakes pays attention to eating them wrapped in vegetables. From beginning to end, it is called "having a head and a tail", which means good luck. When eating spring cakes, the family sits around and puts the baked spring cakes in a steamer, taking them with them while eating, in order to have a hot meal. ?

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, with the development and improvement of cooking technology, the spring plate was changed into a small and exquisite spring roll, which was not only a folk food, but also one of the court cakes, and was highly praised by Emperor Qianlong. ?

Spring rolls are one of the nine snacks in Manchu-Han banquet 128 in Qing Dynasty.