Dumpling culture handbook content

Dumpling culture handbook content is as follows:

The folk custom of eating dumplings in the Spring Festival has been quite prevalent in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Dumplings are usually wrapped before 12:00 pm on New Year's Eve and eaten at midnight, which is the beginning of the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, and eat dumplings to take the meaning of "more years of intercourse," "Zi" for "Zi Shi

There are many legends about eating dumplings on New Year's Day, one of which says that it is in honor of Pangu's opening up of the sky and the earth, ending the mixed state, and the other is to take it with the "muddy hoard" of the harmonies, which means "full of grain hoard".

Additionally, there are rumors that the folklore of eating dumplings has something to do with Nvwa's creation of man. When Nuwawa created man from the earth, because of the cold weather, the ear of the man in the yellow earth could easily freeze off. In order to make the ear fixed and not fall off, Nuwa tied a small eye in the ear, tied the ear with a thin thread, and put the other end of the thread in the mouth of the man in the yellow earth and bit it, and only then was the ear considered to be done.

The common people, in order to honor Nuwa's achievements, made dumplings in the shape of a human ear, with a filling (thread) inside, and ate them with their mouths. Dumplings have become an indispensable program food for the Spring Festival for a number of reasons: First, dumplings are shaped like Yuanbao. People ate dumplings in the Spring Festival to "attract wealth into the treasure" sound, the second is that the dumplings have a filling, so it is easy for people to put a variety of auspicious things wrapped into the filling, in order to send people to the new year's prayers.

When making dumplings, people often put gold ruyi, sugar, peanuts, jujubes and chestnuts into the filling. The year will be sweeter for those who eat Ruyi and sugar, those who eat peanuts will live a long and healthy life, and those who eat jujubes and chestnuts will give birth to precious children early.

In some areas, people eat dumplings with some side dishes for good luck. Such as eating tofu, symbolizing the happiness of the whole family; eating persimmon cakes, symbolizing everything is as good as it can be; eating three fresh vegetables. Symbolize the three Yang Kai Tai. Taiwanese people eat fish dumplings, meat dumplings and hairy vegetables, symbolizing reunion and wealth.

Dumplings are very diverse due to the different fillings and production methods. Even if they are the same kind of dumplings, there are different ways to eat them: the Daur people in Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang cook the dumplings in a vermicelli broth. Then eat the soup with dumplings; some areas of Henan will be dumplings and noodles in the start of cooking, the name of the day "gold thread through the treasure".

Dumplings have become an important part of China's food culture while bringing joy to people on New Year's Day.