Why do we eat dumplings on New Year's Day? What is the saying about eating dumplings on New Year's Day?
Introduction: New Year's Day is an important traditional festival in our country, and there are many New Year's Day customs, eating dumplings is one of them. So why do we eat dumplings on New Year's Day? What is the saying behind eating dumplings on New Year's Day? Want to know more about the days in November of the lunar calendar 2018? Please pay attention to our Shui Mo Xiansheng website’s special topic for November of the lunar calendar!Why do we eat dumplings on New Year’s Day?New Year's Day is the Spring Festival in our history and an important traditional festival.The custom of eating dumplings during the Spring Festival was quite popular among the people during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Dumplings should be wrapped before midnight on New Year’s Eve and eaten at midnight, which is the beginning of the first day of the first lunar month. Eating dumplings means "changing the year and handing over the child". "Zi" means "midnight", and "jiao" is homophonic with "dumplings", which means "joyful reunion" and "good luck". Dumplings have become an indispensable food during the Spring Festival for two reasons: first, dumplings are shaped like ingots. People eat dumplings during the Spring Festival to get the sound of "attracting wealth and treasure". Secondly, dumplings have stuffing, which makes it convenient for people to wrap all kinds of auspicious things into the stuffing to express their wishes for the new year. What's the saying about eating dumplings on New Year's Day?1. In ancient times, dumplings were a food eaten after New Year sacrifices. The ancients believed in making dumplings when staying up to see the New Year in and eating them when saying goodbye to the New Year. That is to say, the hour of Zi marks the turn of two years, the time to welcome the new and bid farewell to the old, and it has special significance. "Zi" means "midnight", which is homophonic with "jiao", the Chinese character for dumplings, meaning joyful reunion and good luck, and heralds good luck in the new year.2. The shape of dumplings looks like ingots, so eating dumplings on New Year’s Day means “bringing in wealth and treasure.” Moreover, the dumplings are filled with stuffing, which makes it convenient for people to wrap all kinds of auspicious and festive things into the stuffing to express people’s good expectations for the new year. 3. From the perspective of the food itself, dumplings are delicious. As the saying goes: Nothing is more comfortable than lying down, and nothing is more delicious than dumplings. Therefore, now people not only eat dumplings during traditional festivals, but also in daily life. |
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