The origin of the custom of making dumplings for the Spring Festival

The closest thing to a true origin of dumplings for the Spring Festival is that, during the Eastern Han Dynasty, a famous doctor named Zhang Zhongjing, when he was treating a lot of poor people who suffered from starvation and cold and had their ears rotted by freezing, he boiled mutton, peppercorns, and some medicinal herbs to get rid of the cold in a pot, fished them out and chopped them up, and then made them into ear-shaped "jiao ear" with a noodle skin and named it "Jiao ear soup to get rid of the cold". And will be named "get rid of the cold Jiao ear soup".

People ate the "dispel cold and delicate ear soup" after the body heat, blood flow, two ears warm, and even a patient's rotten ears were cured. Zhang Zhongjing she medicine has been continued until the New Year's Eve. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, people welcomed the New Year and celebrated the recovery of the rotten ears by making New Year's food in the form of jiao ear and eating it on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year. This is the origin of the Spring Festival dumplings.