Inroduction of Chinese chūn-jǔan

Chinese chūn-jǔan, also called chun-pin, is Chinese folk popular traditional snack, which has a long history. In western culture, it usually called spring roll. In China, people eat chun-juan as we called spring roll during the spring festival, see the spring in, and hope that everything goes well in the new year.

Chinese chun-juan is developed from chun-pan, chun-pan is start from Jin Dynasty, at that time people put different kinds of food on a wrapper, and eat them together, its kind like today’s pizza, but long time before it, as time goes on, in Son Dynasty, as a story goes that there is a student, in order to prepare exam, fiddling around assiduously study, often neglected. So his wife put meat and vegetable as filling, roll into a wrapper, simple and convenient. Later on, this student got a great result, when spring festival coming, they eat this roll as celebrate both of happy even, and this chun-juan(spring roll) was coming, and gradually popular in urban and rural parts. With the development of technology and improve cook, chun-juan has become smaller and more delicate, its not only a folk snack, as a palace pastry. In Qing dynasty court “the Chinese Feast” chun-juan is one of nine main snack ways.

Nowadays chun-juan usually filling generally with the bean sprouts, leek, bean curd doing, some still put shredded meat, rounded, chopped green onion, more advanced chun-juan responded with prawns or oyster, shrimp, mushrooms, Spring rolls with micro fire Fried until golden, crisp outside and soft inside, has Two flavors, a safe sweetener salty, still popular with people.