According to an article, the custom of eating spring cakes can be traced back to Jin Dynasty, but it flourished in Tang Dynasty. Guan Zhongji said: In beginning of spring, people in the Tang Dynasty made spring cakes, wrapped them with Artemisia annua, leek and Polygonum hydropiper buds, and gave them to each other to welcome the New Year. Du Fu has a poem "Fine lettuce in spring, suddenly remembering the time when two Beijing plum blossoms were born", and Lu You also has a poem "Spring comes, spring comes, new things come". It was recorded in the Yuan Dynasty that pancakes were rolled up and then fried. Mr. Zhong Shuhe wrote spring rolls in Changsha, saying that eating spring rolls is a folk custom in Changsha. In Jinmen area, this kind of food is called "seven cakes" (reminiscent of the "seven cakes" in mahjong), and there is a legend about its origin. According to records, people in southern Anhui also make ramie cakes to eat in the long summer. There is a local wild plant-ramie, which is mashed with ramie leaves and mixed with glutinous rice flour to make cakes for steaming cooked food. As a seasonal food around "Long Summer", there is a saying among local people that "Long Summer Bites Bread, No Heatstroke on Hot Days". There are also Vietnamese spring rolls on the Internet. I don't know why, Taizhou people are used to eating tin cakes in the long summer. On this day, Wenling people called it "summer" (some people wrote "drunk summer, Mr. Zhou Zuoren wrote" eat summer "), and there is a saying:" Summer, wheat cakes are made, and people are white. " It means that there was no wheat cake to eat in the long summer, and he made it for nothing, which shows the status of tin cakes in Taizhou. There is a poem "Summer Festival (Long Summer Festival)" in Mr. Ye Zecheng's Collection of Folk Bamboo Ci of Seaside Festival, which reads: "Eat cakes like rolls (here the word is" bamboo "and" goods "), and stir-fry gluten with bean sprouts. The store borrowed a balance scale, which weighed a few kilograms this year. " Secondly, I eat wheat cakes on the Dragon Boat Festival. In my impression, during the Dragon Boat Festival in my hometown, every household seldom eats zongzi, but mostly eats tin cakes. Although there is a saying that "eating zongzi in the Dragon Boat Festival is far away from cotton-padded clothes", it seems that more zongzi are eaten in the Spring Festival. With regard to the inscription on eating wheat cakes at Taizhou Dragon Boat Festival, I have read the word "good things" written by Zhao Limin, a famous doctor in Wenling in modern times:
"The festival is coming again,
Optimism pervades the market.
The stove smells like wheat cake,
There is smoke in the kitchen. "
Nowadays, people use liquefied gas more. I'm afraid it's hard to see the scene of "stove-flavored wheat cake, smoking" Many people who live in cities seldom make their own wheat cakes.
Mr. Huang Huzhou, a scholar of Daoguang in Qing Dynasty, was the first mountain leader of Wenzong College. In his collection of poems, he listened to Song's poems and wrote wheat cakes: "The spring and autumn are beautiful,
It is better to stay in a small place in summer.
Adjacent Weng snacks roll wheat,
What is written here is not necessarily the Dragon Boat Festival, but it can be seen from the poem that people used to eat wheat cakes in summer.
As for why I want to eat wheat cake again on May 13, I haven't found the basis yet. I only know that this day is Fu Xihe's birthday, which may be related to Master Guan. Regarding wheat cakes, Lin Musen, a retired cadre of the Wenling Municipal Party Committee Reporting Group, once wrote an article "Wheat Cakes", which was published in the magazine "Hometown of Villagers" in Taiwan Province Province (Wenling Friendship Magazine). But this magazine was mixed among the books and I couldn't find it at once. I don't know if there is any other statement above.