Steamed beef dumplings with gold and silver silk

"First day dumplings and second day noodles". On the first day of the New Year, almost every household eats dumplings.


Dumplings are a folk food with a long history and are very popular among the people. There is a folk saying that "it is better than it is poured upside down, but it is better than dumplings." Every New Year, dumplings become an indispensable delicacy. When it comes to eating during the New Year, it is always the first time that "dumplings on the first day of the lunar new year" come first.

There are many explanations for dumplings becoming indispensable holiday food during the Spring Festival. Make dumplings before twelve o'clock on the evening of New Year's Eve and eat them until midnight. This is the beginning of the first day of the first lunar month. Eating dumplings means "Jiaozi"."Zi" is "Zishi", which is homophonic with "dumpling" and means "happy reunion".

The reason why dumplings have become indispensable holiday food during the Spring Festival is that they are shaped like ingots. People eat dumplings during the Spring Festival in the voice of "soliciting wealth and treasures". Second, the dumplings have stuffing, which makes it easy for people to put various auspicious and festive things into the stuffing to express people's good expectations for the new year...