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Dumplings are not only the Chinese New Year's Eve meal drama of ordinary people's homes, but also an important role in the royal dinner. On the first day of the first lunar month in the Qing Palace, it is also necessary to eat "boiled dumplings", and the Qianlong Emperor once held a "ceremony for cooking and cooking" in the Hongde Hall. According to the ceremony, the emperor needed four plates of spices to eat dumplings, which were filled with sauce side dishes, southern side dishes, ginger juice and vinegar, and the dumplings were divided into two bowls, one bowl put 6 vegetarian dumplings, and the other put 2 dumplings with copper coins to ensure the emperor's good luck in the coming year. The main ingredient of Qinggong vegetarian dumplings is dried vegetables, including purslane (Chishou dish), golden needle vegetables, wood ear fungus, supplemented by mushrooms, bamboo shoots, gluten, dried tofu, eggs, etc.
According to research, the Qing Emperor ate vegetarian dumplings in order to abide by nurhaci's ancestral precepts, but in the middle and late period, there were gradual changes, such as when Guangxu was eleven years old, the "Qing Palace Meal File" recorded: "Long live Grandpa cooked dumplings in the Yangxin Hall. The first time into the pork longevity filling twelve. The second time I entered the pork spinach stuffed with twelve pieces. ”
Qianlong Chinese New Year's Eve feast also has a product of "duck stuffing Linqing dumplings", Linqing in Shandong, adjacent to the Grand Canal, is the northern gateway of the South Caobei transport, since the Ming Dynasty commercial development, humanistic convergence, food and north and south length, but unfortunately at the end of the Qing Dynasty because of the use of shipping instead of Cao transport, the Grand Canal gradually oblivious, Linqing also declined, "Linqing dumplings" is no longer famous.
Handmade dumplings have a large amount of labor and certain technical requirements, and many young people now do not make dumplings. However, during the Cixi period at the end of the Qing Dynasty, every Spring Festival Cixi would often gather the various royal palaces Fu Jin and Ge Ge into the palace, make dumplings together, and keep the age to contact feelings, if any Fu Jin and Ge Ge could not make dumplings, it is estimated that lafayette could not please Lafayette.
(Excerpt from Hohhot Evening News)
Source: Tonight's newspaper