According to legend, in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, on the day of spring, people would spread thin cakes made of flour on a plate, together with exquisite vegetables to eat, so it is called "spring plate".

In the Tang and Song dynasties, this trend is more prevalent. After the Ming Dynasty, spring plate, five Xin plate and evolved into "spring cake". Wu Zimu of the Song Dynasty described it in the Dreaming Liang Record: "Changshu patty cake, wonton waling, spring cake, vegetable cake, round soup." By the Qing Dynasty, spring cakes were also eaten more often by rich or commoner families.

The symbolism of eating spring cakes in spring is to welcome spring. The custom of eating spring cakes in the spring originated in the Tang Dynasty, also known as "biting spring". Eating spring pancakes is a festive symbol, just as we eat Lantern Festival Lanterns.

Memorial history

In 1652, Zheng Chenggong, who fought against the Qing Dynasty, besieged Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, from March to October, a seven-month-long siege, and when the siege was lifted, 730,000 people died in Zhangzhou, and only one to two hundred survived in the city (some of the old people in Zhangzhou called it the "Zhangzhou Massacre"). "

One of the most important things to remember is the fact that the city's population was not as large as it should have been.)

At one time, the city was full of corpses, a tragic scene. Defending the city of Qing court had to wrap the body with a straw mat, grass burial (North Tourist Records - Chronicle), the Qing Historical Records, the Qing Records, the Qing Tongjian and the Zhangzhou Prefecture, Minhai Chronicle, Southeast Chronicle, the beginning and end of the Taiwan Zheng, Zheng Chenggong Biography, the Taiwan General History are recorded).

Because of this, the surviving people, in order to commemorate this vicious history after the war, to spring cakes proposed as a straw mat to wrap the body, and consume spring cakes during the Ching Ming period to show that they do not forget, and has been passed down to the present day.