Why are dumplings a traditional Chinese food?

China's vast territory, the custom of eating dumplings on New Year's Eve is different. In the early Qing Dynasty, Hebei's "Suning County Records" reads, "On New Year's Day, when the food is served at the same time, each person eats flat food, named Jiaozi, taking the meaning of the year-end cross." Suzhou and Hangzhou area, New Year's Eve to eat egg dumplings and fat head of fish, but the fish only eat the center to stay head and tail, implying gold and silver treasure and have a head and tail, the year to the head, family affairs Shengwang. Yunnan Kunming area New Year's Eve dinner to eat soybean made of bait block, can be fried, roasted, boiled into sweet and salty flavor, and pray for the new year's bumper crop. Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning New Year's Eve to eat pickled vegetables and meat dumplings, meaning "sour treasure" (tethered treasure). Henan area of the dumplings and flour skin **** cooking, called "flour skin dumplings", meaning "jade belt wrapped around the treasure". Shaanxi area will be dumplings and noodles seepage combined cooking, called "gold thread through the treasure". Shandong, New Year's Eve, the whole family sat together to pack dumplings, New Year's Eve must eat vegetarian dumplings, intended to seek a new year of vegetarian clean, safe and sound. Southern provinces, New Year's Eve dinner more food dumplings, fried rice cakes, meaning that the reunion of the year high. Minority annual New Year's Eve food is unique. Mongolian people called the Spring Festival for the "White Festival", the first month for the "white month", New Year's Eve boiled dumplings, roasted leg of lamb, around the fireplace and food, to the elders to honor the "New Year's Eve wine". Manchu New Year's Eve dinner is sumptuous and grand, eat dumplings food Taotie Wenxuanzi, bean buns, vegetables, blood sausage, pickles blanch white meat and symbolize the auspicious fish meat dishes. Xiangxi Miao New Year's Eve dinner is sweet wine and dumplings, symbolizing the sweet life, grains and fruits. Yunnan Lahu people must do on New Year's Eve glutinous rice rake rake, a pair of particularly large, said to symbolize the sun and the moon, a number of small symbol of the sky stars, to pray for a new year of wind and rain, fruitful. These customs, although different, but the New Year's Eve dinner to eat vegetarian is *** through **** with the same, eat dumplings is *** through **** with the same, a good significance is *** through **** with the same, are for the New Year to add a good luck, which is the real reason. "This is the real reason why dumplings are so delicious. Dumplings are delicious, more and more diners, many places in China to dumpling production as an industrial operation, the development of the dumpling economy, expanding exports, frozen dumplings a large number of exported to Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and other countries. The development of dumplings has also evolved from the flat plate to the dumpling feast. This past year only have food, has now become a variety of seasons with the market of popular commodities, big belly filled with full of wooden fish dumplings, lace crescent moon dumplings, mandarin ducks dumplings, four happy dumplings world delicacies, butterfly dumplings, gold and silver dumplings, dumplings, dumplings, pearl dumplings, and so on. In the past, some officials and dignitaries can only eat leek and shrimp dumplings, cabbage dumplings, has entered the homes of ordinary people, some taboo to do the filling of vegetables and wild vegetables are also on the throne of dumpling filling in a dignified manner. Dumplings also have some aliases, the north has called "flat food", "flat combined", the old Beijing called "meat and potatoes", the Cantonese called "wonton The old Beijing called "biscuits", the Cantonese called "wonton", the Sichuan people called "copious hands", called different, said dumplings are known. Let Chinese dumplings go to the world, let the world understand Chinese dumplings, and then understand China. Dumplings are not only loved by Chinese people, but also by foreign guests: Chinese dumplings are delicious! Eat Chinese dumplings, taste the flavor of the world. Collect the delicacies of the world