Dumplings dates back many centuries. It originated in the Yellow River valley where wheat was grown. During the Spring and Autumn Period, about 2,500 years ago, people already knew how to grind wheat into flour, make wheaten food with stuffing and steam it in bronze pots. 
During the Song Dynasty (960-1279), a kind of food called jiaozi(dumplings) already existed. In Jin Ping Mei, a famous erotic novel from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), Yue Leng, in chapter 80, asks Xue E to prepare jiaozi(dumplings).
The earliest Dumplings  known was made more than 1,300 years ago and was found in a tomb of the Tang Dynasty unearthed in Turpan, Xinjiang in the 1970s. The semicircular  dumplings was about five centimeters long. The wrappers were made of flour and the stuffing was made of vegetables. It was almost the same as the jiaozi of today.

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