Earliest invention period: Eastern Han Dynasty, earliest inventor: Zhang Zhongjing.
Dumplings have a long development journey. Because dumplings are very similar to wontons, the earliest wontons appeared in the Crescent Moon Wontons during the Three Kingdoms period.
But later in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, it was simply called wontons. After the Song Dynasty, it was renamed as jiaozi. In the Qing Dynasty, it evolved into what we call dumplings.
What I am going to tell you next is not a fairy tale, but something that really happened. It is said that at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhongjing, as a medical sage, served as the prefect of Changsha, specializing in curing some bad diseases for the people. When he returned to his hometown one time, he saw that some very poor people had their ears rotten by the cold in winter, so he He felt very distressed and felt that he was incompetent as an official.