The day of Laha has the custom of eating dumplings and Laha congee, the south generally drink congee, the north generally eat dumplings. According to folk custom, Lahai Festival must pickle Lahai garlic, drink Lahai congee to keep warm. Because the northern folk still have the tradition of pickling Laha garlic. So people in the north like to eat dumplings with Laha garlic.

China's history of eating dumplings and drinking Laba congee has been more than a thousand years. The earliest began in the Song Dynasty. Every Laha day, whether it is the court, the government, the temple or ordinary people's homes to make dumplings or Laha congee. In the Qing Dynasty, the custom of eating dumplings and drinking Laha congee was even more prevalent.

In the court, the emperor, the empress, the emperor's son, and so on, to the civil and military ministers, attendants, courtesans to give dumplings and Laha congee, and to the various monasteries to distribute rice, fruit, etc. for monks to eat. In the folk world, families also make dumplings and Laha congee to honor their ancestors; at the same time, they gather together to eat them and give them to their friends and relatives.

The dumpling skin can also be made of hot noodles, crispy noodles, egg step or rice flour; the filling can be meat or vegetarian, sweet or salty; the cooking method can also be used for steaming, branding, frying, deep-frying and so on. Meat filling has three fresh, shrimp, crab, sea cucumber, fish, chicken, pork, beef, mutton, etc., vegetarian filling is divided into mixed vegetarian filling, ordinary vegetarian filling and so on.

Dumplings are characterized by their thin skin, tender filling, delicious taste, unique shape, a complete range of nutrients in the raw materials used to make the dumplings, and a steaming method that ensures less loss of nutrients and conforms to the connotations of the Chinese food culture of color, flavor, and taste.

There are many famous dumplings from all over China, such as shrimp dumplings made from Chengdu flour in Guangdong, pot-sticker dumplings in Shanghai, steamed dumplings with crab roe in Yangzhou, small dumplings in high soup in Shandong, dumplings on the old side of Shenyang, and Zhongshui Dumplings in Sichuan, all of which are popular varieties.

Dumplings have now become an indispensable New Year's food for people in the north. When making dumplings, people often pack gold ruyi, brown sugar, peanuts, dates and chestnuts 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 dates and chestnuts will have a son early, and those who eat coins will have a constant source of wealth.