Eating dumplings at Chinese New Year has the meaning of good luck, attracting wealth and praying for good fortune in the New Year.

1, good luck

Dumplings have the meaning of "changing the year, handing over the son", "son" is "son time", handing over and "dumplings", "dumplings", "dumplings" and "dumplings". "Dumpling" is a harmonic sound, which has the meaning of joyful reunion and good luck.

2.Cai Cai Jin Bao (招财進宝)

Dumplings's "饺" prefix is "钱", and its shape resembles that of a Yuan Bao (元宝), which means "Cai Cai Jin Bao (招财進宝)".

3. New Year's Prayer

People will put a lot of auspicious things into the dumplings, such as red dates and chestnuts, in order to send people's expectations for the new year.

The Origin of Dumplings

Legend has it that at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the "Sage of Healing" Zhang Zhongjing was a governor in Changsha, but he resigned and returned to his hometown. When he returned home, it was the winter solstice, and he saw that the people in Nanyang were so hungry and cold that both ears were frostbitten. Since typhoid fever was prevalent at that time, many people died of illness.

Zhang Zhongjing thought of a solution. He immediately built a local medical hut, set up a cauldron, boiled mutton, chili peppers and herbs to dispel cold and raise heat, wrapped the dough into the shape of an ear, and then gave it to the poor after it was cooked. The people ate it from the winter solstice to New Year's Eve, warding off the typhoid fever and improving their frozen ears. From then on, people in the countryside and the descendants imitated the production and called it "dumpling ear".