In most parts of northern China, families will sit together for new year's Eve dinner on New Year's Eve. The highlight of new year's Eve dinner is dumplings made together. Why do they eat dumplings on New Year's Eve every year?
Dumplings are usually wrapped before 12:00 p.m. on New Year's Eve and eaten at midnight. At this time, it is the beginning of the first day of the first lunar month. Eating dumplings means "more year-old Jiaozi", and "Zi" means "Zishi", which is homonymous with "dumplings", which means "happy reunion" and "good luck".
There are many legends about eating dumplings in the new year. One is to commemorate the founding of Pangu and end the mixed state. The other is to take its homonym with 'Hun hoarding', which means' full hoarding of grain '.
In addition, the folk language of eating dumplings is also spread among the people, which is related to Nuwa's creation of people. When Nuwa kneaded the earth to make a man, the ears of the Loess people were easy to freeze off due to the cold weather. In order to keep the ears fixed, Nuwa pierced a small eye on the people's ears, tied the ears with a thin thread, and put the other end of the thread in the loess people's mouth to bite, so as to do a good job in the ears. In order to commemorate Nu Wa's achievements, the common people made dumplings, kneaded the shape of human ears with noodles, wrapped stuffing (thread) inside, and ate them with their mouths.
Dumplings have become an indispensable program food for the Spring Festival. The reasons are as follows: first, dumplings are shaped like Yuanbao. People eat dumplings at the Spring Festival to get the sound of "Attracting Wealth and making treasure". Second, dumplings have fillings, which is convenient for people to wrap all kinds of auspicious things into fillings to place people's hopes for the new year.