Plaque food refers to dumplings.

Plaque food is a dialect of the north, generally refers to dumplings, pot stickers and other pasta. Flat food is ancient to dumplings called whistle, north-central Jiangsu (Qinhuai River) and Fujian region because of the ancient cultural region has been preserved called flat food, but also the region has been common snacks.

Dumplings are said to have been invented by Zhang Zhongjing, the "Sage of Medicine", who invented the "Winter Solstice Medicine" to help the world. At that time, he asked his disciples to set up a scaffolding in Dongguan, Nanyang, to cook mutton, chili peppers and cold-expelling herbs in one pot, and then after they were cooked, they were pulled out and chopped up, wrapped in dough to form the shape of an ear, and then boiled to make "Cold-expelling Jiao Er Soup," which was eaten by the public to cure frozen ears.

New Year's Day food customs

New Year's Day customs of the north and south of the division, the north is popular to eat dumplings, the south is popular to eat rice cakes, every New Year's Day, the north will eat dumplings, New Year's Day to eat dumplings of the custom, flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the "Quwu County Records," recorded: "the second day of the system of flat food wrapped in gold, invite son-in-law to compete for the blessing.

New Year's Day to eat rice cakes prevailed in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the southern region is very prevalent, the late Ming Dynasty, "Emperor Beijing Scenery" Volume II, recorded that "the early morning wash激, eat jujube cake, the day of the year cake".

Nian gao and "year high" resonance, has a very good meaning, but also sends people a good hope, a poem said the rice cake: "rice cake meaning a little deep clouds, white as silver yellow gold. Years of hope for high time to profit, pious and silent wish to look forward to wealth."