Spring delicacies: Dumplings are a folk food with a long history and are very popular among the people. There is a folk saying that "dumplings are not as delicious as dumplings".

During the Spring Festival, dumplings have become an indispensable delicacy.

The folk custom of eating dumplings during the Spring Festival was quite popular in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Dumplings are usually made before 12 o'clock in the evening on New Year's Eve and eaten at midnight. This is the beginning of the first day of the first lunar month. Eating dumplings means "Gengsui Jiaozi", and "子" means "子".

"Shi" is homophonic with "dumpling", which means "happy reunion" and "good luck".

There are many legends about eating dumplings during the Chinese New Year. One is to commemorate the founding of the world by Pangu and the end of chaos; the other is that it is homophonic with "hundun", which means "full of food".

In addition, there is also a folk saying that eating dumplings is related to Nuwa's creation of human beings.

When Nuwa created humans, the ears of loess people could easily freeze off due to the freezing weather. In order to keep the ears in place, Nuwa pierced a small eye in the human ear and tied the ear with a thin thread.

Put the other end in the mouth of the loess and bite it to complete the ears.

In order to commemorate Nuwa's achievements, the common people made dumplings, shaped into the shape of human ears with dough, filled with stuffing (thread), and eaten with their mouths.

Dumplings have become an indispensable program food during the Spring Festival for the following reasons: First, dumplings are shaped like ingots.

People eat dumplings during the Spring Festival to "bring in wealth".

Second, the dumplings have fillings, which facilitate people to wrap various auspicious things in the fillings to express people's wishes for the new year.

When making dumplings, people often put Jin Ruyi, sugar, peanuts, dates and chestnuts into the fillings.

Those who eat as they wish and eat sweets will have sweeter days in the coming year; those who eat peanuts will be healthy and live longer; those who eat dates and chestnuts will have children early.

In some areas, when eating dumplings, people also eat some non-staple food to show good luck.

For example, eating tofu symbolizes the happiness of the whole family; eating persimmons symbolizes everything going well; and eating three fresh vegetables.

It symbolizes the prosperity of the three Yangs.

Taiwanese people eat fish dumplings, meat dumplings and cabbage to symbolize reunion and prosperity.

There are many types of dumplings depending on their fillings and preparation methods.

Even though they are the same kind of dumplings, there are different ways to eat them: Daur people in Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang cook dumplings in vermicelli broth and then eat the dumplings with the soup; some areas in Henan put dumplings and noodles together

Boiled, the famous day is "Gold Thread Wearing Yuanbao".

Dumplings, a special delicacy, not only bring joy to people during the New Year, they have also become an important part of Chinese food culture.