Answer: Han Chinese spring dietary customs. Northern spring has the custom of eating spring cake, Northeast, Beijing around the taste of spring cake is most delicious, rumor has it that spring cake as a traditional Chaozhou snack, is evolved from the ancient folk snacks in Chaozhou to be proved. Spring cake is a flour pancake, usually rolled vegetables and food. In the earliest days, spring pancakes and vegetables were put on a plate, which became "spring plate". Song "time and age" cited Tang "four times treasure mirror": "spring day food rococo, spring cake, lettuce, the number of spring plate." From the Song to the Ming and Qing dynasties, the wind of eating spring pancakes, and there is a record of the emperor in the spring to the hundred officials rewarded spring plate spring pancakes. Ming "Yandu excursion" contains: "Where the spring day, (the emperor) in the noon gate to give the hundred officials spring cake." To the Qing Dynasty, accompanied by spring pancakes and eat more rich vegetable fillings. Now, people prepare small dishes or various types of fried vegetables, eat spring pancakes into the cake at will. Spring to eat spring cake to welcome the spring, praying for a good harvest.

Spring cake

Spring cake is a kind of pancake, cooked from flour. Eat a variety of ways, rolled vegetables, staple food alone, fried cakes can be. Han Chinese spring dietary customs. Spring cake as a traditional Chaozhou famous snacks, is evolved from the Chaozhou ancient folk snacks. In the earliest days, spring pancakes were put on a plate with vegetables, which became "spring plate".

The earliest spring pancake is a pancake made of wheat flour branded or steamed, when eaten, often with bean sprouts, spinach, leeks, vermicelli, etc. fried into a combined dish to eat together or to spring pancake wrapped in vegetables to eat. Legend has it that eating the spring cake and the various vegetables wrapped in it will make the agricultural seedlings flourish, six animals thrive. Some regions believe that eating the spring cake rolled celery, leeks, will make people more diligent (celery) labor, life is more long (leek), more prosperous family business. With the development of time, the shape of the spring pancake, edible time also varies from place to place. Spring season, spring, spring onion shoots, called lamb's-horn onions, tender and fragrant, eat spring pancakes smeared with sweet flour sauce, rolled lamb's-horn onions, known as the "bite spring". But Beijing people eat spring pancakes more attention to fried vegetables, it should leeks, fans, spinach shredded fried, mixed and together, known as and vegetables, rolled spring pancakes to eat. There are also spring pancakes sandwich sauce elbow silk, chicken, tripe silk and other cooked meat eating method, and pay attention to wrap up from the beginning to the end of the meal, called "head to tail". Spring pancake ingredients are many, to send them smoothly into the mouth without falling apart, the effort is all in the spring pancake roll method. The goat's horns onions, sweet flour sauce, cut meat in clear sauce, spread eggs, scrambled spinach and leeks, yellow flowers and vermicelli, bean sprouts, etc. are placed on the spring pancake in order, and yards, this time to use an important tool - chopsticks. Put the chopsticks on the spring pancake, roll up one side of the spring pancake along with the chopsticks, wrap the bottom end upwards, pinch it with your hand, roll up the other side, roll it up and put it on the plate, then raise the chopsticks one by one. If you are good at this, the size of the roll will be as big as your mouth, making it easy to bite into. This method of rolling also applies to roast duck. In terms of serving time, the ancient custom of eating spring pancakes at the beginning of spring is still popular in most areas, and some areas in Fujian and Guangdong eat pancakes around the Ching Ming Festival. In Zhangzhou, Fujian, there are Qingming Festival before eating spring cake custom legend: the early years of the Qing Dynasty, Zheng Chenggong attacked Zhangzhou, dozens of dead, because there is no coffin can be coffined, had to be rolled and buried, and then rolled to eat pancakes, in memory of.