Dumpling is traditional food with a history of more than 1,800 years, created by medical sage Zhangzhongjing. Serving as the staple food and street food, even the special food for celebrating New Year, it was fond by Chinese people.Filling mixtures will vary depending on personal tastes, region and season. Popular mixtures include pork with Chinese cabbage, pork with garlic chives, pork and shrimp with vegetables, pork with spring onion, garlic chives with scrambled eggs. Other special fillings are crab, fish, chicken, beef and mutton.Divide the fermented dough into the equal part and roll it into a plat one, fill in the ingredients you prepared, there are different shapes to make, like shoe-shaped gold ingot, moon shape, triangle, wave, lock shape etc.According to your favorite flavor, you can boil, fry, steam the dumplings. Some ingredients can be served in the soup of boiling dumplings for tasting better, such as vinegar, spicy oil, garlic, salt, soy sauce, sesame oil. And you can even dip the ingredients when enjoying the steamed dumpling. The thin skin filled in tender meat, taste so delicious, nutritious and juicy.Nowadays, people add many natural vegetable or fruit colors to look good and delightful, such as sesame powder, straw powder, corn powder, carrot, spinach, celery, yolk, tomato, eggplant, strawberry etc.The dumpling also contains the Chinese traditional culture no matter from its shape and filling. There is a folk saying that "no food tastes better than dumplings", dumplings are served at festival food in the north area. Considering its changes of new and old during Spring Festival, family members stay together and make the dumpling, and set off the fireworks outside, experience unique Chinese Spring Festival. In legend, a ferocious ghost call Xi(夕) will come out at midnight of the Chinese New Year’s Eve in the Chinese lunar calendar, and people will gain energy from dumplings and set off the fireworks to help deity Nian to drive the ghost away.
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