What is the historical origin of dumplings

Summary: Dumplings, originally called "Jiao Er", originated from the ancient Jiaozi, which is rumored to have been first invented by Zhang Zhongjing, the medical sage from Nanyang, China, more than 1,800 years ago. Dumplings were known by many different names during their long development, and by about the Tang Dynasty, they had become almost identical to today's dumplings. The modern custom of eating dumplings basically follows the customs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and generally people in the north, winter solstice, New Year's Eve and Spring Festival will eat dumplings. Next, let's take a look with the editor. What is the historical origin of dumplings

1, the Eastern Han Dynasty

Dumplings originated from the ancient horn, dumplings in its long development process, a variety of names, there are "prison pill", "flat food", "dumpling bait", "powder horn" and so on the name. Rumor has it that dumplings originated in the Eastern Han Dynasty and were first created by Zhang Zhongjing, the "Sage of Medicine", a native of Nanyang, Henan Province in the Eastern Han Dynasty. At that time, dumplings were used for medicinal purposes, and Zhang Zhongjing wrapped some cold-removing herbs in the dough to cure diseases (mutton, pepper, etc.) and avoid frostbite on the patient's ears.

2. Three Kingdoms Period

Dumplings had already become a kind of food during the Three Kingdoms period and were called "crescent moon wontons". This food was mentioned in the book "Guangya" written by Zhang Yi of Wei. According to the book "Guangya" written by Zhang Yi of Wei during the Three Kingdoms period, there was already a crescent-shaped food called "wonton", which was basically similar to the shape of dumplings.

3, North and South Dynasties

By the time of the North and South Dynasties, wontons were "shaped like a crescent moon, and were commonly eaten throughout the world". It is assumed that after the dumplings were cooked, they were not fished out and eaten separately, but were mixed with soup and served in a bowl, so people called the dumplings "wontons". This way of eating is still popular in some parts of China, such as Henan and Shaanxi, where people eat dumplings and put small ingredients such as cilantro, scallions, shrimp skin and chives in the soup.

4, Tang Dynasty

About the Tang Dynasty, dumplings have become almost the same as today's dumplings, and are fished out and put on a plate to eat individually. They were also called "crescent-shaped wontons". Folklore in the Chang'an area says the empress Wu Zetian invented the dumpling.

5. Song Dynasty

The Song Dynasty called dumplings "jiao'er", which is the etymology of the word "dumpling" in later times. In the Song Dynasty, Meng Yuanlao's Tokyo Menghua Lu (Records of Tokyo Dreams) recalled the prosperity of Bianjing in the Northern Song Dynasty, and in its Volume 2, it mentioned that there were "crystal jiao'er", "fried jiao'er", and "camel's hump jiao'er" in the market. Song Sishui Qianfu Zhou Mi collection of "Wulin old things" Volume VI mentioned that the market in Lin'an, "the city Luo corner," "all colors corner". This way of writing, in the subsequent Yuan, Ming, Qing and Republic of China can still be seen. In the Southern Song Dynasty, it was called "dry meat double under the corner".

6, Ming Dynasty

According to the literature, the custom of eating dumplings at the Spring Festival has appeared in the Ming Dynasty at the latest. According to the "Discretionary Zhi", the court of the Ming Dynasty has been ''the first day of the first month of the fifth shift up? Drink cypress pepper wine, eat water snacks (i.e., dumplings). Or secretly wrapped in silver money one or two in the inner, the person who got it to divine a year of good luck, is also a day to worship each other, the name is also known as congratulations on the New Year."

7. Qing Dynasty

During the Qing Dynasty, dumplings were usually wrapped up before midnight on New Year's Eve and eaten at midnight at the beginning of the first day of the first month of the Lunar New Year, and dumplings were eaten to take advantage of the meaning of the phrase "to change the year's date and time", with "Zi" for "Zi Shi". "The meaning of eating dumplings is "to celebrate reunion" and "good luck". It means "happy reunion" and "good luck".

What are the customs of eating dumplings

1. New Year's Eve

According to folklore, New Year's Eve is a day when people, ghosts, and gods are at war, so everyone must participate in the festival in order to have good luck and peace in the coming year. In the New Year's Eve, people eat dumplings will be through the body to add strength, and then, men, women and children firecrackers to help the gods get rid of the ghosts, and then devoutly affixed to the new Zaowang master portrait, and in the God of Wealth and the Zaowang master's portrait of the front of the offering of dumplings based on the culinary delights, in the name of the coming year of peace and good luck and prosperity of the meaning of the. This is the origin of the custom of "clearing the old year with the sound of firecrackers".

2. Chinese New Year

Dumplings become an indispensable delicacy during the Spring Festival. Chinese New Year is the grandest annual festival of the Chinese people. There is a tradition of eating dumplings for the New Year's Eve dinner, but the custom of eating dumplings varies from place to place. In some places, dumplings are eaten on New Year's Eve, while in others, dumplings are eaten on the first day of the year. Eating dumplings on Chinese New Year means good luck, and the shape of the dumplings is like a Yuanbao, which means that the dumplings are wrapped with good luck.

3, the fifth day of the first month

In addition to the New Year's Eve dinner to eat dumplings, the fifth day of the first month to eat dumplings. There is a saying that, from the first to the fifth within a few days of more taboos, people can not "act rashly", after the fifth, it is basically over the Jubilee, no longer taboo, so to eat dumplings to congratulate.

4, into the ambush

Volts are the highest temperatures of the year, humid, hot days, a year of "three volts". Hundreds of people say "bitter summer" at this time. Into the ambush, it is less than a month of wheat harvest time, the family barn, people use this opportunity to play teeth, eat a white flour, dumplings and is usually difficult to see the top, so the old Beijing has a "head dumplings two ambush noodles" said.

5, Autumn

Autumn, folk have "stick autumn fat" said, "people eat for days", Autumn is a very important season, people certainly can not forget to eat, so in Beijing, Hebei area folk popular! "So it is popular in Beijing and Hebei. Voltaic people have poor appetite, so many people will lose some weight.

During the Qing Dynasty, it was popular to weigh people on hanging scales on the day of Volt (mostly children, of course) and compare their weight with that of summer to check their fatness, and the loss of weight was called "bitter summer". At that time, people's judgment of health, often only fat and thin as a standard. Thin of course, need to "make up", to make up for the way to the Autumn to "stick autumn fat", eat thick food delicacies, of course, preferred to eat meat, "meat to stick fat". On this day, the ordinary people eat stewed meat, a little more sophisticated people eat white meat, stewed meat, as well as meat dumplings, stewed chicken, stewed duck, braised fish and so on.

6, Li Dong

Li Dong festival, there is the meaning of autumn harvest and winter storage. Because dumplings are derived from the saying "the time of the handover". On the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, it is the turn of the old year and the new year, and the beginning of winter is the turn of the fall and winter seasons, so the dumplings at the time of the "handing over" of the seeds should not be left out.

7, the winter solstice

Northern regions have the winter solstice slaughter sheep, eat dumplings, eat wonton custom. According to legend, a famous doctor named Zhang Zhongjing in ancient China in the strange cold winter with dumplings to cure frostbite story. That year, the winter solstice (nine) this day, the north wind howling snow, Zhang Zhongjing saw many people due to hunger and cold, hands, feet, ears were frostbitten, he invited these people to their homes, handmade dumplings, stuffing selection of high-calorie chili peppers and mutton, boiled dumplings even with soup to the bowl, so that everyone ate it while it was still hot. This method really worked, and the frostbite was alleviated and gradually healed, thus leaving a beautiful story of eating dumplings on the "winter solstice" day. The story is still being told by modern people.