There are 14 characters for dumplings.
饥,六,一,八,father,yi,_,文,factory,丶,亠,交,丿, dumpling. Dumpling: jiǎo, the radical "food" is simplified to "饣". According to ancient calligraphy, strokes are saved and simplified. Congxi, Jiaosheng. The pasta and fillings are still mixed together, which is the paradigm of dumplings. Original meaning: Pasta with fillings wrapped in a semicircle. Such as: dumplings, dumplings.
Dumplings are a traditional specialty food loved by the Chinese Han people and a must-eat during the Spring Festival every year. According to legend, it was Zhang Zhongjing, the medical sage of the Eastern Han Dynasty, who first invented it. In many provinces and cities in China, there is also the habit of eating dumplings during the Winter Solstice. Dumplings are also a common food in southern China.
The inventor of dumplings:
The earliest inventor of dumplings was Zhang Zhongjing and the earliest invention period was the Eastern Han Dynasty. Zhang Zhongjing mainly lived in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Everyone knows that that period was very turbulent, and it was common for people to suffer from hunger and cold.
Whenever winter comes, the hungry people who already don’t have enough to eat don’t even have warm clothes. When winter comes, their exposed parts of the ears will suffer from frostbite. Zhang Zhongjing witnessed these diseases and the suffering of the people with his own eyes.
After decades of hard work, he created an immortal work called "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases", which made great contributions to the clinical practice of traditional Chinese medicine in my country. Dumplings have a long development journey.
Because dumplings are very similar to wontons, the earliest wontons appeared in the Three Kingdoms period, but they were later shortened to wontons in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. After the Song Dynasty, they were renamed as jiaozi. , evolved into what we call dumplings today in the Qing Dynasty.