The Legend of beginning of spring Eating Spring Cakes
According to legend, in the Song Dynasty, a scholar named Hao Chen and a clever wife named Ayu fell in love deeply. Hao Chen is absorbed in reading, but often forgets to eat. This really worries Ayu. She thought and thought, and finally came up with a way to make spring cakes, which can be eaten as both rice and vegetables. Chen Hao eats spring cakes while reading. His food is delicious, which makes him more energetic when reading. Eating Spring Cakes in Spring is an ancient custom in China. In the Jin Dynasty, there was a "five taro plates", that is, "spring plates", which put spring cakes and vegetables in the same plate. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, eating spring cakes became more and more popular, and the emperor gave them to officials. At that time, spring cakes were very particular: "Green HongLing, golden rooster and jade swallow, extremely exquisite production, each dish costs 10 thousand yuan." People also use it to give gifts to each other. The custom of eating spring cakes also influenced the brotherly peoples. For example, when Lu Ye Chu Lu followed Genghis Khan on his expedition to the western regions, he ordered the chef to cook a spring dish and wrote a poem: "I accidentally forgot the spring day yesterday, so I'll try to cook a spring dish." At the beginning of this case, the silver line was chaotic, and the sand bottle cooked the lotus root. Mix well with peas, knead well with scallions, and finely chop Artemisia annua and chives. Why fill it up? Why bother being anointed? "Nowadays, spring cakes come in different shapes and eat at different times. There are baked and steamed; As big as a round fan or as small as a lotus root.