New Year’s Day falls on the Gregorian calendar year, and northerners usually eat dumplings.

Eating dumplings on New Year’s Day is because dumplings have good meanings and are symbolic, and eating dumplings has been one of our country’s traditional cultures since ancient times. Therefore, eating dumplings has become a major feature of the festival. .

In ancient times, dumplings were a food eaten after New Year sacrifices. The ancients paid attention to eating bread when they watch the new year and eating when they say goodbye. In other words, it is the turn of two years, the time to welcome the new and say goodbye to the old, which has special significance.

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Using dumplings for banquets has been around since the Tang Dynasty more than a thousand years ago. At that time, Chang'an, the capital, was the economic and cultural center of the Tang Dynasty. In the peaceful and prosperous times, people had higher and higher demands on life, and food culture also developed accordingly. In the Tang Dynasty, a high-level banquet was popular in Chang'an City, called the "Shaowei Banquet". This was a sumptuous meal presented to the emperor after the ministers of the imperial court were promoted to official positions.

We found a food list for the "Shaowei Banquet" from the Tang Dynasty that was preserved to this day. This food list is equivalent to today's recipes. In this, we found a dish called "Er "Fourteen Qi Wontons".

Dumplings of different shapes and contents are made according to the twenty-four solar terms. Therefore, we believe that today’s dumpling feast may have had its prototype in the Tang Dynasty.