Dumplings

①The Spring Festival is the most important traditional festival in my country. The food customs of the Spring Festival are rich and colorful. On New Year's Eve, northerners eat reunion dumplings.

②Dumplings were called "cake bait" in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. It is said that they got their name because their shape resembles an ear. In the Sui Dynasty, Yan Zhitui said in his collection: "Today's wontons are shaped like a crescent moon and are eaten all over the world." It can be seen that dumplings were also called "wontons". Folks also call this crescent-shaped food "fenjiao" or "jiaozi".

③In the Tang tomb in Astana, Turpan County, Xinjiang, dumplings from the Tang Dynasty 1,300 years ago were unearthed. When they were unearthed, one dumpling and four wontons were placed in a wooden bowl. It is confirmed that dumplings as they are now existed at least in the Tang Dynasty, and that dumplings and wontons have been divided into two different varieties and are eaten even in remote areas of our country.

④ Later, dumplings were called "flat food" for a long time. There is a record of "flat food wrapped with fine stuffing" in "The Records of the Imperial Capital". To this day, dumplings are still called flat food in some areas of Shaanxi.

⑤After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the Manchus collectively called dumplings, pastries, steamed buns, etc. dumplings, and dumplings were called boiled dumplings. If people describe a person who is unsmiling, they would say that this person is "not happy to see someone making cakes."

⑥There is a folk saying that "dumplings are not as delicious as dumplings". It can be seen that this kind of traditional diet, which can be meat or vegetable, nutritious and comprehensive, is so loved by people and has been passed down for more than thousands of years. Although the name has changed from "cake bait" to "jiaozi" and "flat food", people's love for it has never changed, and it has become a must-have diet during the New Year. According to folk customs, during the "zi hour" of New Year's Eve, firecrackers are set off, dumplings are eaten, and the old is bid farewell to the new and the new is welcomed. Since New Year's Eve is the intersection of two years at "Zi Shi", it means "Jiao Zi". Later, the delicacy eaten during the "Jiaozi" period was called "dumplings" in homonym. From then on, "dumplings" were not only delicacies, but also contained wonderful cultural colors.

1. Expository texts can be divided into two categories according to their different natures: __________ expository texts and __________ expository texts.

2. The explanatory object of this article is, and the explanatory order used in this article is ____________________.

3. The article also mentioned many nicknames for dumplings. Please write down any four of them.

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4. In addition to giving examples, paragraph ③ also uses the __________ method of explanation, mainly to illustrate ____________________.

5. Can the underlined word "at least" in paragraph ③ be removed? Why?

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6. According to the meaning of the text, explain What kind of cultural color does eating dumplings on New Year’s Eve contain?

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Reference answers:

1. Explanatory essay on things and things.

2. Dumplings; logical order.

3. Pink horn, dime, wonton, cake bait.

4. Column numbers.

5. "At least" cannot be removed. It shows that dumplings appeared in the Tang Dynasty at the latest, indicating the time when dumplings appeared. If removed, the meaning will be inaccurate.

6. Eating dumplings on New Year’s Eve embodies people’s good expectations for the new year, and also expresses the change of the old from the new and the meaning of happy reunion.