What is the festival to eat dumplings

Festivals where dumplings are eaten include: New Year's Eve, Spring Festival, Winter Solstice, Lantern Festival, Festival of the Broken Fifth, Rising Autumn, Rising Winter, and Entering the Volt.

Dumplings are one of the traditional foods of China. It is also called flat food or boiled meat and potatoes. In ancient times, there were only wontons but no dumplings. Later, the wontons were made into a crescent shape to become dumplings. In the Tang Dynasty, the habit of eating dumplings had spread to the remote areas of China. On New Year's Eve, the dumplings are eaten as soon as the clock strikes twelve, so that it is the time of the day, taking the meaning of the change of the old and the new, the coming of the time of the day.

People eat dumplings in the Spring Festival to "attract wealth and treasure", which means good fortune in the coming year. Dumplings are stuffed, so it is easy for people to put all kinds of auspicious and joyful things into the stuffing to send people's good wishes for the new year, and to symbolize that the whole family will be reunited and have peace and security.

Folklore

Dumplings have become an indispensable part of the Chinese New Year festivities for a number of reasons: First, they are shaped like Yuanbao. People eat dumplings in the Spring Festival to take the sound of "attracting wealth and treasures"; the second is that dumplings have a filling, so it is easy for people to put all kinds of auspicious things into the filling, in order to send people's prayers for the new year.

When making dumplings, people often put gold ruyi, sugar, peanuts, dates and chestnuts into the filling. Those who eat the gold ruyi and sugar will have sweeter days in the coming year, those who eat the peanuts will have a long and healthy life, and those who eat the dates and chestnuts will have a son early.

In some areas, people eat dumplings with some side dishes for good luck. For example, eating tofu, symbolizing the happiness of the whole family; eating persimmon cake, symbolizing everything is going well; eating three fresh vegetables. Symbolizing the three suns. Taiwanese people eat fish dumplings, meat dumplings and hairy vegetables, symbolizing reunion and wealth.