Spring cake Beijing folk food, a very thinly cooked cake, also known as pancakes. Every year on the day of spring, Beijingers eat spring cake, called "bite spring". On the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, which is the day of the dragon's head-raising as the old Chinese proverb says ("February 2, the dragon raises its head"), Beijingers also eat spring pancakes on this day, called "eating dragon scales". Spring pancakes than eating roast duck pancakes to be large, and tough (Beijingers called to have "bone strength"), because to roll a lot of vegetables to eat. In the old days, when eating spring pancakes, it was important to go to the box store to call "Su Pan" (also known as box vegetables). Box store is the meat store, the store sends people to send food to the home. Box compartment yard smoked tripe, pine nuts tripe, stove meat (a kind of hanging oven roast pork), clear sauce meat, smoked elbow, sauce elbow, sauce mouth strips, smoked chicken, soy sauce duck, etc., to eat when you need to change the knife and cut into thin threads, with a few kinds of home-style stir-fried vegetables (usually stir-fried leeks and sprouts, stir-fried spinach, vinegar-cooked mung bean sprouts, veggie fried vermicelli, spread eggs, etc., if there is a fresh listing of the "pheasant neck chive If there are just listed "pheasant neck leeks" stir-fried shredded pork, and then with a spread of eggs, it is more fresh and flavorful), rolled together into the spring pancakes to eat. Accompanied by thinly shredded green onions and drizzled with sesame oil sauce (roast duck with sweet flour sauce). Eat spring pancakes, the whole family sitting around together, the branded spring pancakes in the steamer, eat as you take, in order to eat a hot. If you eat spring cakes on February 2, Beijing people also pay attention to the married girl to take home.

Spring cake, spring rolls are spring day to eat snacks. The custom of eating spring cakes originated in the Jin Dynasty and flourished in the Tang Dynasty. "Guanzhong record" said: the Tang people in the "spring day for spring cake, to spring artemisia, yellow leeks, polygonum buds wrapped", and it will be given to each other, to take the meaning of welcoming the new. Du Fu has a poem "spring spring plate fine lettuce, suddenly remember the two Beijing plum hair". It is recorded that the Song dynasty court with capers to welcome spring farming spring cake is "green wisps of red silk, gold chicken and jade swallow, ready to be extremely exquisite, each plate worth ten thousand dollars. Song dynasty palace spring cake to "thin as cicada wings" and famous. Here is the spring rolls filled with water chestnuts.

Spring cakes and spring rolls are both symbols of spring in the minds of ancient people, but there is a difference between them. Spring pancakes are thin cakes made of flour and rolled with vegetables. Spring rolls are thin crust wrapped vegetables deep-fried. According to evidence, spring rolls are evolved from the ancient spring plate eaten on the day of spring. Jin Dynasty, "New Year's Day made five Xin plate" said, and with garlic, garlic, leeks, brussels sprouts, caraway five kinds of meat and vegetables; to the Tang Dynasty, the content of the spring plate has changed, changed to: Lapis lazuli, spring pancakes, lettuce; to the Yuan Dynasty, the emergence of thin pancakes rolled with filling and then deep-fried to eat the method.