For dumplings, everyone is no stranger to it! Dumplings are a well-known traditional food in Our Greater China, which represents the removal of the old and the new, the reunion, and the longing of people for their hometown and family.
Speaking of dumplings, we must mention one person - the famous medical scientist, Zhang Zhongjing. Some people will ask, "What is the connection between dumplings and medicine?" "In fact, more than a thousand years ago, dumplings were not food, but a medicine. At that time, the north was very cold every winter, and it often happened that the ears of the people were frostbitten. Zhang Zhongjing saw this scene, very sad, and then he thought left and right, and finally thought of a solution: put the food on the dough, make the shape of an ear, cook it, let the villagers eat it, so that it is not cold, and because the shape of the dumplings is like an ear, the people eat the hot dumplings, they feel that their ears are not cold. Since then, every winter, especially on the first day of the Chinese New Year, dumplings have become the most famous and classic special food on the people's dinner table!
When we see the dumplings, let's talk about the wrapping method of the dumplings. Dumplings are very simple: first dip the snow-white flour on your hands, then pick up a dumpling skin, spread it on the palm of your hand, then stretch out a finger, gently dip some water, spread it evenly around the dumpling skin, pick up a lump of meat filling, put it in the middle of the dumpling skin, and then fold it up and down in half, let them stick together, and finally smear some water on the two "ears" of the dumpling, overlap the two "ears", and pinch it heavily on the overlap, and a dumpling is born.
The shapes of the dumplings are also varied: there are Yuanbao dumplings that represent the rolling of wealth; there are bull horn dumplings that represent the bullish atmosphere; and there are four-leaf clover dumplings that represent luck...
Take a bite of the dumplings, mouth full of juice. Whenever this happens, the taste buds on the tip of the tongue will be quickly opened, full of teeth and fragrant, and then swallowed satisfactorily, at the same time, the chopsticks in the hand will involuntarily send the dumplings into the mouth one by one, enjoying the beauty of all this.
Dumplings not only represent a kind of food, but also represent the taste of hometown, telling our infinite concern for our families.