Dumplings are shaped like a crescent or horn.

Dumplings originated from the ancient horn. Formerly known as "Jiao Er", it is an ancient traditional Han Chinese noodle dish with a history of more than 1,800 years. It was first invented for medicinal use by Zhang Zhongjing, the sage of medicine in Dengzhou, Nanyang, during the Eastern Han Dynasty. It is a traditional specialty food loved by the Chinese people, also known as dumplings, is the staple food and local snacks of the folk in northern China, as well as the annual festival food.

There is a folk song called "Big Cold, Small Cold, Eat Dumplings for the New Year." Dumplings are often boiled in water and filled with dough.

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Dumpling skins can also be made of hot noodles, crispy noodles, egg noodles, or rice noodles; fillings can be meat, vegetarian, sweet, or salty; and cooking methods can be steaming, roasting, pan-frying, or deep-frying. Meat filling has three fresh, shrimp, crab, sea cucumber, fish, chicken, pork, beef, mutton, etc., and vegetarian filling is divided into mixed vegetarian filling, ordinary vegetarian filling and so on.

Dumplings are characterized by thin skin, tender filling, delicious flavor, unique shape, a full range of nutrients in the raw materials used to make the dumplings, and the steaming method ensures that there is less loss of nutrients

Dumplings around China are famous for a wide range of products, such as shrimp dumplings made of clarified rice flour in Guangdong, dumplings in Xi'an's acidic broth, Hengshui's pork and cabbage dumplings, Shanghai's fried dumplings in a pot sticker, steamed dumplings made of crab meat from Yangzhou, small dumplings made of Shandong's high broth, old side dumplings made of Sichuan's clock water, and dumplings made of Sichuan's water, which is also called "dumpling. dumplings in Shandong, old side dumplings in Shenyang and Zhongshui dumplings in Sichuan are all popular varieties.

When making dumplings, people often pack gold ruyi, brown sugar, peanuts, dates and chestnut coins into the filling. Those who eat Ruyi and brown sugar will have sweeter days in the coming year, those who eat peanuts will live a long and healthy life, those who eat jujubes and chestnuts will give birth to a son early, and those who eat coins will have a constant source of wealth.