Eat jiaozi just to get the meaning of "making friends when you are young".

The custom of "making friends at a young age" began in the early Ming Dynasty, and the initial homonym of "making friends" evolved into "making friends". Moreover, because the white-flour jiaozi is shaped like a silver ingot, the pots and pans on the table symbolize the meaning of "making a fortune in the New Year, and the ingot is rolling in". Jiaozi on New Year's Eve is an important part of the festival, so it also stipulates many rules and established customs. These customs are designed to meet the needs of the Chinese New Year atmosphere.

It is the custom of northerners to eat jiaozi during the Spring Festival. There is a folk saying "delicious but not as good as jiaozi". During the Spring Festival, jiaozi has become an indispensable delicacy. In the folk customs of many places in China, eating "jiaozi" on New Year's Eve is an important festival that no food can replace. In addition to jiaozi as a holiday food in the north, Renye Fang will also eat jiaozi on certain occasions.

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According to documents, the custom of eating jiaozi in the Spring Festival appeared at the latest in the Ming Dynasty. Then it is particularly noteworthy that by the Qing Dynasty, this custom became very common and had been fixed. This custom is related to the ancient timing method in China. In ancient China, the Twelve Earthly Branches were used to record the time of day.

We divide every day into twelve time periods, so the beginning of every day is noon, which is equivalent to the time from 23: 00 to 1: 00 in the middle of the night. Then at the end of each year, at the age of 30, this is not only the replacement of the old and new days, but the replacement of the old and new years. People in China call it "jiaozi".

China people pay great attention to boundaries, especially to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. At this time, we should hold some ceremonies to pray for good luck in the coming year. Therefore, eating jiaozi, jiaozi and this "jiaozi" is just a homonym at this time, while jiaozi has such rich cultural meanings that people in the north of China gradually formed. During the Spring Festival, on the first day of the New Year and when eating jiaozi, it is a custom for us to eat jiaozi.

For China people who respect their families, on New Year's Eve, the snow outside the window is silent, the indoor lights are warm and the pot is steaming. All my thoughts and blessings are wrapped in that thin dumpling skin! The red flame boiled the water, and the more it burned, the more fragrant it became. Accompanied by firecrackers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, jiaozi is full of beautiful expectations for the coming year. From the first day of the first lunar month, eating jiaozi means "making friends when you are young", and "Zi" means "Zi Shi", which is homophonic with "Jiao", meaning "Happy reunion" and "good luck".

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