1. Northerners usually eat dumplings for their New Year’s Eve dinner. Their symbolic meaning is to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new.

2. Dumplings are one of China’s traditional foods. In ancient times, it was called "jiaozi", also known as flat food or boiled pastry. In ancient times, there were only wontons but no dumplings. Later, the wontons were shaped into crescents and became dumplings. On New Year's Eve, as soon as the clock strikes twelve o'clock, people start eating dumplings, so this time is the Zi hour, which means the alternation of the old and the new, and the coming of the Zi hour. The habit of eating dumplings in the Tang Dynasty has spread to remote areas of China.

3. The custom of eating dumplings during the Spring Festival was quite popular in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Dumplings are usually made before 12 o'clock in the evening on New Year's Eve and eaten at midnight. This is the beginning of the first day of the first lunar month. Eating dumplings means "Gengsuijiaozi", and "zi" means "zishi". , homophonic with "dumpling". If northerners don’t eat dumplings on the night of the 30th, they will feel that there is no Chinese New Year atmosphere.