Eating dumplings on New Year's Eve is a way to look forward to a reunion, to have peace and happiness, and to hope for a speedy return to one's hometown.

There is a tradition of eating dumplings for the New Year's Eve dinner, but the custom of eating dumplings varies from place to place. Some places eat dumplings on New Year's Eve, while others eat dumplings on the first day of the year. Eating dumplings is a unique way to express people's desire to pray as they leave the old and welcome the new. Dumplings have the harmonic sound "jiaozi", which means the moment when the New Year meets the Old Year. Eating dumplings at Chinese New Year means good luck. In addition, dumplings are shaped like Yuanbao, so wrapping them means wrapping up good luck.

Dumplings are a traditional specialty food loved by the Han Chinese people. Dumplings are a kind of semi-circular or half-moon, horn-shaped pasta with filling. Legend has it that it was first invented by Zhang Zhongjing, the medical sage of China. Dumplings are also a yearly festival food in the north, and it is customary to eat dumplings at the winter solstice in many parts of northern China. Dumplings are also commonly eaten as a food in southern China.

The history of dumplings has gone through a long and gradual process, and Zhang Zi Lie at the end of the Ming Dynasty made a good illustration: "Dumpling ear, that is, the section into the type of food, the soup in the firm pill, or called powder angle, the northern people read the angle for the Jiao, because of the call of the dumpling bait, pseudo dumplings for dumplings." Dumplings because of its use of different names of different fillings, because of the different ways of maturity is divided into fried dumplings, fried dumplings, steamed dumplings, dumplings and so on.

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