What festival to eat dumplings

Dumplings are eaten on the Spring Festival, the Winter Solstice, New Year's Eve, the fifth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the first day of Autumn, and the first day of Winter.

1. Spring Festival

Dumplings are the most common name used by the Chinese, and they come in a variety of shapes. There are two reasons for eating dumplings at Chinese New Year. First, the shape of dumplings is the same as that of a Yuanbao, so eating dumplings at Chinese New Year means "inviting wealth and prosperity". Secondly, according to ancient custom, dumplings are used for rituals during the New Year. It is said that the dumplings are wrapped during the New Year's Eve and eaten at the end of the New Year's Eve, that is, at the end of the day, when the dumplings are eaten.

2. Winter Solstice

The custom of eating dumplings at the winter solstice is related to Zhang Zhongjing, a famous doctor in Nanyang. It is said that Zhang Zhongjing, a famous medical doctor from Anyang, Henan Province, during the Eastern Han Dynasty, who is known as the Sage of Medicine to later generations, had extensively collected medical prescriptions and wrote the heirloom masterpiece "Treatise on Miscellaneous Diseases of Typhoid Fever".

When he returned to his hometown at the end of his term as an official in Changsha, he met with heavy snow, and saw many people's ears frozen along the way, so he used mutton, chili peppers and some cold-expelling medicinal herbs in a pot of boiled, chopped, and wrapped in a pastry to make the ears look like ears, and then boiled in a pot to make "cold-expelling and correcting the ears of the soup", and as a medicine for each person to eat two, curing the ears of the townspeople, and curing the ears of the townspeople. It cured the ears of the townspeople. Later, every winter solstice people will imitate do eat, and call it "flat food" or "dumplings", leaving the "eat winter solstice dumplings do not freeze people" said.

3, New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve dinner has a lot of names, different from the north and south, and each has its own instructions. People in the north used to eat dumplings on New Year's Eve, which is a habit handed down from ancient times, the ancient northern people at the bottom of the life is very difficult, not hungry all year round has been the biggest hope to improve the life of the food can only be saved to the big festivals and special days when you can eat, and is classified as the most delicious food "dumplings" is also the most difficult to eat, so that the I eat gyoza (dumplings) whenever I can. Because of Chinese folklore that many taboos before this day can be broken and named. Because this day bears too many people's hopes and visions, so the ancient day of this taboo is particularly much, such as in this day must eat dumplings, can not use raw rice to cook, women are not allowed to strings door and so on.

5, Autumn

For Autumn to eat dumplings, but also a kind of autumn fattening eating method, then, what is the meaning of autumn fattening? The above has been said, the summer body will be reduced, the ancients will be in the autumn this day to weigh their own weight, if they find themselves thin, we will eat some meat food to make up for it, commonly known as "stick autumn fat". Dumplings are also a kind of meat food, so eating dumplings in the fall is also a kind of autumn fat eating method.

6, winter

There is a custom of eating dumplings in winter. Winter, dumplings, the flavor of both the cabbage is different, but also dipped in vinegar with rotten garlic to eat, to be considered a different flavor. Because our country is based on agriculture, we attach great importance to the twenty-four seasons, "festival", the new growth point of grass and trees also. Autumn harvest and winter storage, this day, to improve life, the choice of "delicious but dumplings". That's why there is a saying in the Book of Rites that "eating melon is also a sacrifice to the ancestors". Winter solstice, China's ancient custom of "winter solstice festival".