The Huns of the Han Dynasty
There used to be a saying in old Beijing that "winter solstice wontons and summer solstice noodles". According to legend, during the Han Dynasty, the Huns in the north often harassed the border, and the people had no peace. At that time, there were two leaders of the Hun tribe, the Huns and the Tuns, who were very cruel. The people hated them so much that they wrapped them into horns with meat and took the sound of "Hun" and "Tun" and called them "Hundun". Hate to eat, and seek to quell the war, can live in peace. Because the first made wontons in the winter solstice this day, so in the winter solstice this day every family to eat wontons.
The development of wontons has become a famous snack with many names, different productions, and delicious flavors, which are spread all over the country and loved by the people. Wontons have many names, most places such as Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places called wontons, while Guangdong is called wontons, Hubei said that the bag of noodles, Jiangxi said that the soup, Sichuan said that the copious hand, Xinjiang said Qu Qu and so on. Everywhere there are a lot of special features, well received by diners wontons, the famous Chengdu City, Dragon copious hand food store copious hand, a variety of varieties, thin skin filling tender, flavorful soup fresh; Chongqing City, over the bridge copious hand, packaged pinch to pay attention to a variety of seasonings, dipped in the seasoning to eat; Shanghai City, the old City God Temple, Songyunlou, three fresh wontons, fillings to pay attention to the filling of the thin skin package filling, flavorful color and freshness; Urumqi City, Xinjiang, the Qu Quqiu, stuffed with mutton, thin skin, tender, soup clear flavor and so on. Soup clear flavor and so on.
Taoism
Another theory: the winter solstice, the capital of the great Taoist temple has a grand puja. Taoist priests recite sutras and present tables to celebrate the birth of the First Heavenly Father. According to Taoism,
Yuan Shi Tian Zun symbolizes the first century when chaos was not yet divided and the Taoist qi was not yet revealed. Therefore, the folk have the custom of eating wontons. Yenching times and seasons" cloud: "the shape of the ravioli like chicken eggs, rather like the chaos of heaven and earth, so in the winter solstice to eat." In fact, "wonton" and "chaos" resonate, so the folk will eat wontons extended to, break the chaos, open up the world. Later generations no longer explain its original meaning, only the so-called "winter solstice wonton summer solstice noodles" proverbs, it is simply seen as a seasonal diet.
Eating wontons in many parts of China have the custom of eating wontons on the winter solstice. In the Southern Song Dynasty, when Lin'an (now Hangzhou) also had the custom of eating wontons on the day of the winter solstice. Zhou Mi, a Song dynasty person, said that people in Lin'an ate wontons on the winter solstice to honor their ancestors. It was only in the Southern Song Dynasty that the custom of eating wontons on the winter solstice to honor ancestors began to prevail in China.
Ravioli development so far, it has become a lot of names, production of different, fresh and flavorful, all over the country, loved by the people of the famous snacks around a lot of special features, well received by diners ravioli, the famous Chengdu City, Dragon copious hand eating and drinking store copious hand, a variety of varieties of its thin skin and tender filling, flavorful soup fresh; Chongqing City, the bridge copious hand, packet pinching, seasoning a variety of, dipped in the seasoning to eat; the Shanghai City of Old City God Temple Songyunlou three fresh wontons, filling materials, thin skin package filling, taste and color; Urumqi City, Xinjiang, Qu Qu, mutton for filling, thin skin filling tender, soup clear flavor and so on.
Xi Shi said
According to legend, during the Spring and Autumn Period, King Wu Fuchai defeated the Yue Dynasty, captured the Yue King Goujian, and got a lot of gold and silver treasures, especially after getting the beauty of the Xishi, more complacent, indulging in songs, dances, wine and sex all day long, do not ask about the state of affairs. This year, the winter solstice festival came, the king of Wu routinely accept the hundred officials to worship, inside and outside the palace song and dance. Unexpectedly, in the banquet, tired of eating delicacies of the sea, he was actually upset, put aside the chopsticks do not eat. All this Xishi all see in the eyes, she took the opportunity to run into the royal kitchen, and the dough and rolling, want to make a new style of dim sum to show their own feelings. Skin in her hands after turning a few patterns, finally wrapped up a dustpan type of snacks. Into the boiling water a blanch, the dim sum will be one by one on the surface of the water. She into a bowl, add fresh soup, sprinkled with onion, garlic, pepper, drops of sesame oil, offered to the king of Wu. The king of Wu tasted, fresh and delicious to the extreme, ate a big bowl, even asked: "What kind of snacks?" Xi Shi secretly laughed: this is a useless king, all day long muddled, really chaotic. When she heard the question, she answered casually, "Wonton." Since then, this kind of dim sum has been popularized under the name of "wonton". Wu Yue people not only love to eat wontons on weekdays, and in order to commemorate the wisdom and creation of Xi Shi, but also set it as the winter solstice festival of the seasonal food.