Nuwa is a snake-tailed Muse and the mother of human beings in Chinese national legends. After Pangu opened the sky and divided the earth, she wandered between heaven and earth, reveling in the infinite pleasures of nature. She likes to be friends with trees, flowers and plants, and accompanying birds, beasts, insects and fish. However, after living like this for too long, Nuwa began to feel a little boring and boring.

One day, Nuwa came to the sparkling lake and saw her own figure swaying in the lake. She suddenly had an idea: Why not create some intelligent and spiritual creatures like me?

So she stretched out her hand, grabbed a ball of wet soil by the water, squeezed out a very interesting little thing according to her own appearance, and suddenly added legs that matched their arms. As soon as the little thing landed on the ground, it immediately began to play happily and cheered loudly around her: "Mom! Nuwa was full of sweetness and joy, and named them "People."

Nuwa kept pinching and rubbing, leaning against the big tree to rest for a while when she was tired, and drinking a handful of clear lake water when she was thirsty. She kept doing this all year round until the winter solstice, when the weather was so cold that the ears of the loess people were always frozen off. She pierced a small hole in the ears of each loess person, passed it through with a thread, tied a knot at one end, and stuffed it into the mouth of the loess person, so that the loess person could bite it, so that the little person's ears were not frozen off.

Nuwa looked around and saw the little people she had made earlier, some dancing in the water, some playing in the grass, and some bathing in the sun on the top of the mountain. "How long will it take these little creatures to spread to every corner of the world? My method is too slow." Nuwa thought.

Suddenly Nuwa saw a long wisteria on the cliff. "I have a solution!" So Nuwa plucked the wisteria, dipped it in the mud, and waved it hard, and the mud on the wisteria splashed on the ground, turning into cute little people.

In order to allow human beings to continue to multiply, Nuwa divided them into men and women. For this reason, human beings have continued from generation to generation, and their numbers have continued to grow.

And on the winter solstice, the coldest day of winter, people don't forget to make ear-shaped stuffed food to eat, which means that the loess people made by Nuwa bite the ears with thread (stuffing) to avoid being frozen. People also named this food dumpling.

In this way, the custom of eating dumplings during the Winter Solstice Festival has been passed down.