Wonton, also known as wonton, copy hand (Hanyu Pinyin: hún tún or hún tun light sound; Cantonese: w?n3 t?n1, the same as "wonton"; English name: wonton) is a traditional Chinese Han Chinese noodle dish, wrapped in a thin crust with a filling, usually boiled and served with soup. It originated in northern China.

Wonton

Wonton is made with water and flour as the skin, which is wrapped with vegetables, or meat, or sugar, or honey as the filling, and boiled in water. [1]

Flavors

Sweet taste. Swallow five on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.

Effects and Indications

The ancients had the custom of "eating wontons on the winter solstice". On the day of the winter solstice, there is a grand puja in all the major Daoist temples in the capital. Taoist priests recite the scriptures, on the table, to celebrate the anniversary of the birth of the First Heavenly Father. According to Taoism, the First Heavenly Father symbolizes the first century when the chaos was not yet divided and the Taoist qi was not yet revealed. Therefore, the folk custom of eating wontons, meaning "the beginning of heaven and earth". The Qing dynasty rich tsun chung "yanjing years and times" cloud: "the shape of the wonton like chicken eggs, rather like the chaos of heaven and earth, so in the winter solstice day to eat." In other words, "wonton" is the "chaos" of the harmonization, the folk have eaten wontons of this daily small things derived from the great significance of breaking the chaos of the heavens and earth. 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.

History of wontons

Specialty delicious wontons pictures (14) Yang Xiong of the Western Han Dynasty, "Fang Fang" mentioned that "the cake is called the wontons", wontons are a kind of cake, the difference between which sandwich stuffing, eaten after steaming; if cooked in soup, it is said that the "soup cake! "

Ancient times, the ancient world was a very different place.

The ancient Chinese thought it was a kind of sealed bun, no seven orifices, so it is called "chaos", according to the rules of Chinese characterization, and later called "wonton". At this time, there was no difference between wontons and dumplings.

Dumplings have not changed significantly over the centuries, but wontons have flourished in the south and have developed a separate style. By the Tang Dynasty onwards, a formal distinction was made between the terms wonton and dumpling.