Hunan Changsha Spring Festival dumpling custom

According to the query related information: Dumplings are the traditional food of our country's folklore, and have special significance for people in the north, who have to eat dumplings on many important occasions. It has a special significance, taking the meaning of "changing the year and handing over the dumplings", "子" for "子时", and "交" for "子时", and "饺" for "饺". Dumplings are shaped like a Yuanbao. Dumplings are shaped like Yuanbao. People eat dumplings at Chinese New Year to attract wealth and prosperity. It is a way of praying for good luck in the new year and hoping that everything will go well in the years to come. Dumplings originated in the Eastern Han Dynasty and were first created by Zhang Zhongjing, the sage of medicine. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when wars were raging and people had little food and clothing, many people suffered from frostbite from the cold weather. In order to cure the people's frostbite, Zhang Zhongjing created the "Cold-expelling Jiao Er Soup", which is a noodle dish made of cold-expelling ingredients such as lamb and chili peppers wrapped in a noodle skin, which was called Jiao Er because of the resemblance to an ear, and then passed down as a food. In the process of spreading, Jiao Er was also called dumplings.