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Especially in northern China, wrapping and eating dumplings has become an important activity for happily spending New Year's Eve in many households.
In Chinese, 'dumpling' and 'first exchange' are homophones, so they have a rich cultural association.
If you mention New Year in China, the image that many people will think of is a family gathered around wrapping dumplings together.
The custom of eating dumplings on New Year's Eve is related to an ancient Chinese method of measuring time; in ancient China, each day was divided into twelve sections: the beginning of each day was called 'first time', which corresponds to the period from 11pm to 1am.
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