What is the symbolism of dumplings, which are eaten by all northerners for New Year's Eve dinner?

Northern people eat dumplings at New Year's Eve dinner, what is its symbolism? The symbolism of eating dumplings at New Year's Eve dinner is to change the year交子, to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, which is a kind of expectation for the New Year. Our country has a lot of traditional festivals, each traditional festival has its own customs, New Year's Eve, people in the north after the New Year's Eve dinner will eat dumplings, and in the south of many places are eating dumplings, meaning reunion. These customs are actually people's hope for a better life, and will have a good meaning, the Spring Festival is one of my favorite festivals, because this time is always a big family reunion, very much a taste of home.

I. New Year's Eve dinner to eat dumplings is the moral of the more years to hand over the son, resignation of the old and welcome the new

Everyone knows to eat New Year's Eve dinner, this day is New Year's Eve, the last day of the year, I believe that a lot of children are particularly fond of this day, because tonight will receive a lot of New Year's Eve money, put it under the pillow, you can one to put a firecracker to see the fireworks, in the morning, we all together to paste the Spring Festival couplets, pasting New Year's Eve paintings. This day's New Year's Eve dinner is everyone together to do, do a lot, although every time I know can not eat, but do a lot, always feel a little bit of each kind of food is very happy. The north is to eat dumplings, in many places in the south is to eat soup dumplings, that night everyone together to make soup dumplings, means reunion, every time in the Spring Festival, I feel particularly happy.

II. Each traditional festival has its own customs

The Spring Festival has a lot of customs, I believe that in the Spring Festival we can hear the firecrackers, hear the firecrackers, all know that is the New Year to come, when I was a child, especially like the first day of the New Year, because this day in the morning once you get up to wear new clothes, take their own new year's money to buy their favorite things. Each traditional festival has different customs, these customs are people's expectations of a better life, in such festivals, and the family to spend, feel particularly happy. The above is just my personal opinion, so do you think there are other symbols of this custom?