Why must we eat dumplings at Christmas?
A candlelight dinner on Christmas Eve is just a pale and rude conjecture of this holiday. It is a carnival that does not understand. If you want to have a good Christmas, you must eat dumplings.
The official record of eating dumplings at Christmas can be traced back to the century-long war between Britain and France-King Philip VI ordered the knights in the front line to cook on Christmas day according to the ancient Roman saying that "eating dumplings at Christmas, but never grow old" Cook dumplings in order to bless the battle going well.
Some scholars claim that the French army actually boiled the kidney flower that day, because the royal accent of the French king was too stubborn, and the frontline commander mistakenly regarded the dumplings as waist.
As for the phrase "I eat dumplings for Christmas, but I don't grow old", it is from the mouth of a great figure in the Roman Senate, presumably speaking from Octavian friends, because Octavian often says what he thinks, and He most likely visited Shenyang to watch the ice sculptures.
He is Octavian
Before the Industrial Revolution, everything was in full swing, everything was on the verge of obscurity, and eating dumplings at Christmas had not become an unbreakable custom.
During the Battle of Vienna in 1683, the Polish wing cavalry first broke through the Ottoman empire's defense line and guarded the door of Europe. After the war, the cavalry led by the Polish king was called the spear of God by the outside world, and because of the wing cavalry's back, With wings-like decorations, when they charge, they are like dumplings that are about to go out of the pot, so some people call them dumplings of God.
In order to commemorate them, local residents sing heroes' songs every Christmas, and they also cook twenty dumplings, dipped in vinegar and leek stuffing, and eat them one by one.
But this is just a regional cultural presentation. To this day, the local tradition of eating dumplings has become a revenue-generating project in the tourism industry, just like the pot dance in the west of Sichuan. As long as you give tickets, you can play. It means something.
The tradition of eating dumplings for Christmas in the modern sense is actually derived from Scandinavia in the 19th century.
At that time, Swedish explorer Matthias first discovered wild pork green onion stuffed dumplings in the Liaodong Peninsula of China. The homonym of pork green onion in Swedish means "the last dinner of God". It can also be translated as "dinner for God's sake". In short, the words pork and green onion filling are great. In the eyes of the Swedes, this is like an old testament maxim or a prophet slang.
Later, under the persuasion of Captain Thales Gillips and Matthias, Tieling chef Chen Chun followed them to Sweden-because of the religious heritage of Christmas, Chen Chun's pork shallot dumplings and Christmas soon Festivals are tied together.
"Eat a pork dumpling for Christmas, God listens to you every night" is a sentence that everyone knew at the time.
By the mid-nineteenth century, the custom of eating dumplings for Christmas spread to the Rhine region, and then spread all over the world.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, due to the prevalence of consumerism, Christmas Eve dinners gradually became the mainstream, and the giants who insisted on the tradition of dumplings on Christmas were the only Rothschilds and the Turawala Dynasty in the East African steppe. He has died in recent years because the king went to work in South Africa.
When the last emperor spent Christmas in South Africa, he once told the BBC reporter: When you are preparing to eat a sumptuous meal on Christmas Eve, you must first think clearly. You want to be an ordinary person oppressed by consumerism. Still want to be a true noble, think clearly, friends.
