new Year's Eve dinner

Yuanbao dumplings

Yuanbao dumplings

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Chinese tradition, Chinese agricultural calendar, popularly known as five, is the beginning of the fifth month. On this day, there is a custom called “Five poor” (intellectual poor, school poor, poor, poor, poor and poor). At dawn, firecrackers and sanitation were used to express the good wishes of the working Chinese people to fight evil and bring happiness. After a year of “break-up”, which means a year of delivery, everything has slowly returned to its status as before New Year's Eve, on the fifth day of the month, with firecrackers, cleaning and dumplings. Why do you eat dumplings in the first five months? There are many legends in the history of Break Five, one of which is the legend that Prince Kang has declared his wife a “poor god” and has made her “break away” and that people, in order to avoid the “poor God”, have called it “Big Five”. Second, the legend is that when they ask God in their 30th year, they forget about the dirty god, the wife of Kang, and she can't help but make trouble with the Jade Emperor, who laughs all over his face and doesn't answer. "Well, today is the fifth year, so people can put a few more cannons and pack dumplings for you。