learn chinese in hong kong -Dumplings

Mandarin Lesson

Civil Chinese New Year custom of eating dumplings are already quite popular in the Ming and Qing. Dumplings generally before 0:00 in the New Year’s Eve package is good, until the time of the night to eat at midnight, when it is the beginning of the first lunar month, who started to eat dumplings to take “more-year-old to pay child” meaning, “son” to “neutrons “handed over” dumpling “homophonic, the” festive reunion “and” auspicious “means.

吃餃子

民間春節吃餃子的習俗在明清時已有相當盛行。餃子一般要在年三十晚上12點以前包好，待到半夜子時吃，這時正是農曆正月初一的伊始，吃餃子取“更歲交子”之意，“子”為“子時”，交與“餃”諧音，有“喜慶團圓”和“吉祥如意”的意思。