date:Feb 17, 2013
Spring Festival in China is a time for family gatherings, parties and food - usually lots of it. The traditional festival dish is dumplings, filled with meat and vegetables, which family members either make themselves or buy ready prepared.
Dumplings were created by Zhang Zhongjing during the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 25-220), originally as a treatment for frostbite.
Their shape is similar to the gold ingots used as money in ancient China since the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), and because of thi