Why make dumplings during the Chinese New Year?

1. According to ancient customs, dumplings are food eaten after New Year sacrifices. During the Chinese New Year, people pay attention to keeping the New Year's Bun, and eating it when they say goodbye, that is, eating it at Zi. This is the turn of two years, the time to welcome the New Year and say goodbye to the old. It has special significance and takes the meaning of "Jiao Zi", "Zi" It is "Zi Shi", which is homophonic with "dumpling". It means festive reunion and good luck, and it indicates good luck in the new year. 2. Dumplings are shaped like ingots. People eat dumplings during the Spring Festival to "bring in wealth". 3. The dumplings themselves are delicious.

Dumplings originated in the Eastern Han Dynasty and were first created by the medical sage Zhang Zhongjing. In the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, wars raged, and the people had no food to eat, and many people suffered from frostbite due to the cold weather. Zhang Zhongjing created the "Quhan Jiao Er Soup" in order to treat the people's frostbite, which was made by wrapping mutton, pepper and other cold-repelling ingredients in dough. The cooked pasta was called Jiao Er because it was shaped like an ear. It was later passed down as a food. During the spread, Jiao Er was also called dumplings.

The custom of eating dumplings during the Spring Festival originated from the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty and is a popular way of celebrating the New Year in vast areas of northern my country. Spring Festival dumplings are made on the night of New Year's Eve and eaten at midnight (midnight), which is the beginning of the first day of the first lunar month of the lunar calendar. It means "gengzi". "Jiao" and "dumpling" are homophonic, so it is called "dumplings". . Coins are also wrapped in dumplings, and those who eat them are believed to have good luck.

There are many famous dumplings in various parts of China, such as shrimp dumplings made with Chengfen in Guangdong, sour soup dumplings in Xi'an, pork and cabbage dumplings in Hengshui, fried dumplings with pot stickers in Shanghai, steamed crab roe dumplings in Yangzhou, Shandong The soup dumplings from Shenyang, Laobian dumplings from Shenyang, and Zhongshui dumplings from Sichuan are all popular varieties.