Why do we eat dumplings on New Year's Day? The New Year's Day in ancient China is actually the Spring Festival today.

New Year's Day 2017 is coming soon. Do you want to know why we eat dumplings on New Year's Day? Next, let’s learn about the origin of eating dumplings on New Year’s Day.

Why do we eat dumplings on New Year's Day?

1. Before talking about the origin of eating dumplings on New Year's Day, let's first talk about the traditional festival of New Year's Day. Now New Year's Day is on January 1st of the Gregorian calendar every year, but in ancient times New Year's Day referred to the first day of the first lunar month, and the date of New Year's Day was different in different periods.
2. In ancient times, New Year's Day is our current Spring Festival. It was approved at the State Council meeting on December 23, 949 that my country has made New Year's Day and Spring Festival two festivals. Not only are the titles no longer mixed up, even the dates are separated.
3. The tradition of eating dumplings on New Year's Day in China has a long history. Eating dumplings on New Year's Day is also a continuation of ancient traditional customs , the same reason why we eat dumplings during the Spring Festival now.

The meaning of eating dumplings on New Year's Day

1. In ancient times, dumplings were a food eaten after New Year’s Day 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.
Second, 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.