In addition to spring cakes, spring rolls are also a holiday food that Japanese people often eat at the beginning of spring. Spring rolls evolved from the custom of eating spring rolls that day in ancient beginning of spring. There was a kind of "rolled pancake" in Song Dynasty, which was a transitional type between spring cake and spring roll. In the Yuan Dynasty's Complete Collection of Household Articles, it has been recorded that spring cakes are wrapped in paper and fried before eating. In the Qing dynasty, the name of spring rolls appeared. The practice of spring rolls is to wrap the stuffing with cooked round thin dough, grow into strips, and then fry it in oil pan until golden brown floats. The stuffing can be vegetarian, salty or sweet.

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Spring plate, also known as "spiced plate", is finely cut from five kinds of spicy lettuce. Compendium of Materia Medica says: "Five spicy dishes are made by mixing onions, garlic, leeks, wormwood and mustard in the spring of New Year's Day to welcome the New Year." This custom has been spread to the Tang, Song, Jin and Yuan Dynasties.

For example, Yelu Chucai of Yuan Dynasty wrote a poem "Poor Spring Banquet on the First Day of Spring", in which he said that lotus root, pea, onion, Artemisia selengensis, leek and vermicelli were used for the spring banquet. Ningjin area is mixed with onion, garlic, pepper, ginger and mustard, which is called spiced board. It can be served with wine or given to each other as a gift. And green leeks and oranges.

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Tang's "Four Seasons Baojing" records: "beginning of spring eats reed, spring cake and lettuce, and there is no' dish'." It can be seen that people in the Tang Dynasty have begun to try spring vegetables and eat spring cakes. The so-called spring cake, also called lotus leaf cake, is actually a kind of hot flour cake-two small pieces of water, oiled in the middle, rolled into pancakes, and peeled into two pieces when cooked. Spring cakes are used to roll vegetables, including cooked vegetables and stir-fried dishes.

In the Qing Dynasty, the book Diaodingji recorded the method of making spring cakes: "Roll dough with ham, chicken and other things, or stir-fry seasonal vegetables for customers to eat. Crush the marinated pork tenderloin, garlic flower, black date, walnut kernel, foreign sugar and white sugar, roll them into spring cakes and cut them into sections. " This is the way to eat in the Qing Dynasty. At present, the production method of spring cakes still follows the ancient baking or steaming, depending on personal preference. When eating, some people like to eat sweet noodle sauce and rolled onions, and some places also pay attention to eating cooked meat such as shredded pork belly and sauce chicken in spring cakes.

Small carrot

According to Cui Ai's Moon Order for Four in Han Dynasty, China has the dietary custom of "beginning of spring eats lettuce to welcome the new", but after the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the so-called "biting spring" mainly refers to eating radishes in beginning of spring, such as Liu Ruoyu's "Think carefully, eat well and make a good record" in the Ming Dynasty: "The next day in beginning of spring, everyone chews radishes, regardless of rank. Fu Cha Dunchong's "Yanjing Time" in the Qing Dynasty also recorded: "When spring comes, it is beginning of spring, which means that Japan is rich and eats more spring cakes, and women buy more radishes to eat, and that spring can be sleepy. "

Why eat radish? Generally speaking, it can solve the spring sleep. Since the beginning of spring, the temperature has gradually increased, and people's yang has also increased step by step. People who pay attention to food supplements in China choose spicy and sweet foods at this time to adapt their bodies to the weather. Su Dongpo said in a poem: "Reed roots are still full of dew, Qiu Lai is full of frost and snow, and reeds have children and grandchildren." Li Shizhen is full of praise for radish, thinking that it "can be eaten raw, cooked, sauced, fermented, vinegar, sugar, wax and rice, which is the most beneficial among vegetables." Small carrot

According to Cui Ai's Moon Order for Four in Han Dynasty, China has the dietary custom of "beginning of spring eats lettuce to welcome the new", but after the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the so-called "biting spring" mainly refers to eating radishes in beginning of spring, such as Liu Ruoyu's "Think carefully, eat well and make a good record" in the Ming Dynasty: "The next day in beginning of spring, everyone chews radishes, regardless of rank. Fu Cha Dunchong's "Yanjing Time" in the Qing Dynasty also recorded: "When spring comes, it is beginning of spring, which means that Japan is rich and eats more spring cakes, and women buy more radishes to eat, and that spring can be sleepy. "

Why eat radish? Generally speaking, it can solve the spring sleep. Since the beginning of spring, the temperature has gradually increased, and people's yang has also increased step by step. People who pay attention to food supplements in China choose spicy and sweet foods at this time to adapt their bodies to the weather. Su Dongpo said in a poem: "Reed roots are still full of dew, Qiu Lai is full of frost and snow, and reeds have children and grandchildren." Li Shizhen is full of praise for radish, thinking that it "can be eaten raw, cooked, sauced, fermented, vinegar, sugar, wax and rice, which is the most beneficial among vegetables." Radish also has medicinal values such as expectorant, ventilation and cough relieving. This may be the original intention of the ancients to advocate beginning of spring to eat radishes.