I started to pack jiaozi. My mother said that she held the skin in her left hand, put the stuffing in her right hand with a spoon, put the stuffing in the middle, folded the skin in half on both sides, and then squeezed it into the middle with her thumb and forefinger. Gee, an ingot-like jiaozi did this. It's too simple.

I also started to make it like my mother, but when I put the stuffing away and wanted to wrap it, the dumpling skin became "glue" in my hand and stuck to my little hand. What happened? Mom watched the original stuffing leak soup, so it was not easy to pinch it.

Then I wrapped the second one, put the stuffing in it and squeezed it. It went well this time. But my jiaozi is like a starving soldier, and he can't stand. My mother said that if I put too little stuffing, it wouldn't stand and it wouldn't taste good. I kept pretending, and somehow the creature was caught again.

Related legends

There are many legends about eating jiaozi during the Spring Festival. One is to commemorate the creation of Pangu and end the chaos. The other is to use it as a homonym of "wonton", which means "five grains are abundant" In addition, it is said that eating jiaozi's folk language is related to Nu Wa's making people. When Nuwa's soil caused people, the ears of loess people were easily frozen off because of the cold weather.

In order to make the ear unable to be fixed, Nu Wa pricked a small eye on the ear, tied it up with a thin thread, and put the other end of the thread in the mouth of the loess man to bite, thus completing the ear. In order to commemorate the achievements of Nu Wa, ordinary people wrapped jiaozi, molded adult ears with flour, wrapped them with stuffing (thread) and ate them with their mouths.