The origin and meaning of spring pancakes are shown below.

One, the origin of spring cakes

According to legend, in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, every spring this day, people will be made of flour pancakes spread in the plate, plus fine vegetables to eat, so called spring plate.

To the Tang and Song dynasties, this trend is more prevalent. After the Ming Dynasty, the spring plate and the five-octane plate evolved into spring pancakes. Wu Zimu of the Song Dynasty described in Mengliang Lu: Changshu patty cake, wonton walinger, spring cake, vegetable cake, round soup. By the Qing Dynasty, rich families or the common people's families also eat more spring cakes.

Second, the symbolism of spring cakes

Eating spring cakes in the spring has the symbolism of spring, which means a bumper crop, to meet the arrival of spring. Eat spring cake is also called bite spring, this custom originated in the Tang Dynasty era, more popular in the northern region. Spring cakes are also eaten in the southern region, but in the south they are called spring rolls, and the rolls have a wider variety of dishes, ranging from cold vegetables to marinated meat, all of which can be used as fillings for spring rolls.