Traditional Chinese Food – Dumplings
In China, especially in the Northern areas of China, the making and consumption of dumplings is a prioritised activity for most families on New Year’s Eve in Spring Festival. They are also eaten on the day of the Winter Solstice in Northern China. Dumplings are made before midnight and eaten during the last hour of the old year and the first hour of the Lunar New Year. Eating dumplings in the Spring Festival brings good luck.
People often wrap a one-yuan, fifty-cent or ten-cent coin in some of the dumplings, as a way of expressing good fortune to those who eat them. This is said to ensure good luck and prosperity in the New Year.
The dumplings’ shape looks like an ingot, which was the currency used in
In China, especially in the Northern areas of China, the making and consumption of dumplings is a prioritised activity for most families on New Year’s Eve in Spring Festival. They are also eaten on the day of the Winter Solstice in Northern China. Dumplings are made before midnight and eaten during the last hour of the old year and the first hour of the Lunar New Year. Eating dumplings in the Spring Festival brings good luck.
People often wrap a one-yuan, fifty-cent or ten-cent coin in some of the dumplings, as a way of expressing good fortune to those who eat them. This is said to ensure good luck and prosperity in the New Year.
The dumplings’ shape looks like an ingot, which was the currency used in