The Spring Festival to eat dumplings folk customs have been quite popular in the Ming and qing dynasties. Dumplings will make the year 30 before 12 o 'clock in the evening, until the middle of the house to eat, it was at the start of the first lunar month, eat dumplings from the meaning of "more old hand", "child" for the "house", to "dumpling" homophonic, have "happy reunion" and the meaning of "luck".

Chinese New Year eat dumplings have many legends, one is in honor of pangu's epoch-making, ended mixed state, 2 it is to take with the "muddy hoarding" homophonic, meaning "food, according to the full. In addition, the folk also been eat dumplings folk language related to nuwa created man. Nuwa tuan soil caused by the person, because of the cold, the ear easily frozen loess, can be fixed in order to make the ear not to drop, nuwa on people's ears pierced a small eye, bind the ears with fine line, the other end of the line on the loess mouth bite a person, this is the ear. People in memory of the feat, nuwa to wrap dumplings, noodles knead adult ear with the shape of the inner package with fillings (line), with the mouth bite to eat.