Eating spring rolls in the spring is a traditional folk custom in China, just like the Dragon Boat Festival to eat dumplings, dumplings on New Year's Eve, is accompanied by people for thousands of years has been the continuation of the new year, in addition to meet the meaning of the new year, but also because the spring rolls usually contain a large number of fresh vegetables in the spring, and therefore the nutritional value of the very high.

On the day of the first day of spring, people wrapped lettuce in cake crusts and made spring pancakes or spring rolls, which were shared by everyone to pray for good health, called "biting spring," and gradually turned into daily food. Spring rolls are made of dry dough wrapped with a filling, fried and deep-fried. It evolved from the custom of consuming spring dishes on the first day of spring.

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Spring rolls are a popular traditional snack in China, made of thin dough, rolled with a filling and deep-fried. The filling and size vary from place to place, but they are basically flat and cylindrical. In China, for example, vegetables and meat are usually used as fillings, while in some northern regions red bean paste is used instead. Spring rolls are also one of the dishes served at the second table of a full Manchu banquet.

Hong Kong spring rolls, sometimes called "spring rolls", are one of the most common snacks served at teahouses. They are about four inches long and one inch in diameter, and are deep-fried to a golden brown color, with a variety of fillings, such as shredded mushrooms, shredded pork, shredded bamboo shoots, shredded pork, shredded pork, shredded bamboo shoots and shredded pork, Shredded pork, sweet bamboo shoots, bamboo shoots, vermicelli and fungus, etc. The quantity of each plate is mostly three pieces, which may be eaten with scissors by cutting it into two halves in the middle and then dipped in Worcestershire sauce.

There are also variations in Hong Kong, with hawker stalls selling spring rolls that are two inches in diameter or even thicker, with a crisper outer skin and more ingredients than traditional spring rolls, making them popular as a street snack.

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