According to legend, in December of the first year of Emperor Xizong Guangming's reign in Tang Dynasty (880), Huang Chao's insurgent army conquered Luoyang, easily took the Tongguan Pass and approached Chang'an. Xi Zong's officials were at their wits' end, weeping, and the chancellor, Lu Ji, committed suicide out of fear. Tian Lingzi, with 500 troops of the Divine Strategies, hurriedly led Emperor Xizong and a few royal princes to escape from the capital, first to Hanzhong and then to Chengdu in Sichuan Province. After Emperor Xuanzong, Emperor Xizong became another emperor of the Tang Dynasty who fled to Sichuan.

Then Tang Xi Zong lived in Chengdu Qingyang Guan, because this Taoist temple became a temporary palace, "Guan" will be renamed "Palace", from this Taoist temple has a "Qingyang Palace "the beautiful name. Emperor Xizong playful and delicious, in this place of distress also can not forget his palace food, to cook him to do the palace pies, but the day of the fleeing urgency, did not have time to bring the imperial chef, the imperial kitchen are Chengdu's local chefs.

These Chengdu chefs although the culinary skills, however, not familiar with the northern palace pies, but they are not idle, together they came up with a way: will be combined into a very thin surface rolled into a very thin crust, cut into small squares, will be wrapped up in meat, but as the emperor's imperial food, the crust of the package should be very concerned about the method.

One of the chefs found that the emperor copied the hand (two hands in front of the cross) to watch the scenery outside the temple, the posture is very beautiful, the proposed crust folded into a rhombus, the two corners of the package forward copied the parcel method, get everyone agreed. So make this special shape of the "pie".

When this "pie" cooked and presented to Emperor Xi Zong, the emperor asked angrily: "What is this pie? I have never seen!" The good chef said: "This is an innovative Chengdu pie, we saw the emperor copying hands to watch the scenery, they learn the emperor copying hand wrapped filling, so this special pie made for the emperor is called 'dragon copied hands'".

Emperor Xi Zong heard happy up, then lifted the stick to taste the first "dragon copied hand", think smooth and fresh, taste great. So the dragon swallowed and swept away the served dragon copied hand, and ordered to eat this "dragon copied hand" every day in the future.

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Copy of the hand, the northern part of the more known as wontons (also known as Chaos), some places in Shandong called the ??????????????????????????????, Guangdong called the wonton. Hundun was originally used in folk worship food.

Long Dumpling is an eatery in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, mainland China, known for making dumpling (wonton).

The restaurant was popular for its extremely thin, translucent skin.

After the 1960s, Dragon Dumpling moved to No. 6-8, Chunxi Road South, Chengdu, where it not only served various varieties of dumplings, but also added a wide variety of Chengdu snacks and other items, developing it into a large-scale snack restaurant that attracted many tourists.

The founder of Dragon Handicraft was Zhang Guangwu, who started the restaurant in 1941 in Yuelai Field, Chengdu. The name "Dragon" was chosen because Zhang Guangwu borrowed the phonetic sound of the word "thick" from "Thick Flower Tea Garden" when he was setting up the restaurant.

In 1995, Dragon Handrail was awarded the title of "Chinese Old Brand" by the Ministry of Domestic Trade of the People's Republic of China.

Baidu Encyclopedia--Long Dumplings