Spring rolls, also known as spring cakes, spring plates and pancakes, are a kind of traditional food in China folk festivals. They are popular all over China, especially in Jiangnan and other places. In southern China, they don't eat jiaozi during the Spring Festival, but eat spring rolls and sesame glutinous rice balls, and they are also eaten in Zhangzhou during the Qingming Festival. In addition to serving their own families, they are often used to entertain guests. Spring rolls have a long history and evolved from ancient spring cakes.

To make spring rolls, the leek should be cut into 3cm-long segments, the shredded pork should be spread with a little salt and water starch slurry, and then spread with warm oil, and then put into the pot, add soy sauce, salt and leek, stir-fry a little to make spring rolls, then beat the eggs into a bowl, add flour and water, stir them into a thin paste, and spread them into four skins with a frying spoon for later use.

Put the skin on the cutting board, roll it into the stuffing, put batter on the sealing place and seal it, then make four green spring rolls one by one. Put the pot on high heat, pour oil, put the spring rolls into it when it is 70% to 80% hot, and fry until the skin is crisp and golden yellow. When eating, cut the spring rolls into pieces and put them into the plate.

The legend of eating spring rolls:

According to legend, during the Song Dynasty, a scholar named Hao Chen and a wise wife named Ayu were deeply attached to each other. Hao Chen was absorbed in reading, but she often forgot to eat. This worried Ayu, and she finally came up with the idea of making spring cakes, which can be used as both a meal and a dish.

Chen Hao ate spring cakes while reading, and the meal was delicious, which made him more motivated to study. Soon, Hao Chen went to Beijing to catch the exam, and Ayu made spring cakes and fried them for her husband as dry food. As a result, Hao Chen won the first prize and happily gave the dry food of spring cakes made by his wife to the examiner for tasting. As soon as the examiner ate it, he was full of praise and immediately wrote a poem and called it spring rolls.

Since then, the reputation of spring rolls has been greatly improved, and it has spread to every household in the folk, forming the custom that every household eats spring rolls. Later, spring rolls have become a fine gift for local officials to pay tribute to the emperor, which is called jade cakes, and the emperor gives food to his ministers, saying that jade cakes are delicious dishes, which means welcoming the spring, biting spring and blessing.