Speaking of jiaozi, we are all familiar with it. In China, whenever we celebrate festivals, we always welcome jiaozi. Jiaozi is smooth and delicious, with delicious taste and profound meaning. Every year on New Year's Eve, every family in the north of China will sit around and wrap jiaozi. "Everyone in jiaozi loves to eat, and the New Year's Eve package jiaozi is particularly fragrant." This sentence represents people's love for jiaozi.
Jiaozi has a long history, which began in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. When Zhang Zhongjing, a "medical sage", returned to his hometown on the solstice of winter, he saw many poor people with frostbite, hunger and cold, and many people caught a cold. Zhang Zhongjing felt sorry, so he set up a medical shed in the local area, set up a cauldron, filled with mutton, peppers and warm herbs, and then wrapped it into an ear shape for the poor to eat. People eat from the solstice of winter until New Year's Eve to resist typhoid fever and cure their frozen ears. To thank Zhang Zhongjing for his kindness and selflessness. Every winter solstice and New Year's Eve, people eat jiaozi. Gradually, eating jiaozi has become a custom in China.
Jiaozi has different names at different times. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Jiaozi was called Joule. In the Tang Dynasty, it was called "Tang Zhong Prison Pill". The Yuan Dynasty was called the "Year Corner"; In the late Ming dynasty, it was called "powder angle"; The Qing Dynasty was also called "plain food" ... With the development of history, jiaozi gradually began to become diverse. For example, shrimp dumplings in Guangdong, fried dumplings in Shanghai, steamed dumplings with crab roe in Yangzhou, glutinous rice balls in Shandong and jiaozi in Northeast China. Sichuan dumplings, etc. , has its own characteristics and is popular.
Jiaozi is not only delicious, but also unique and simple. First, you need to knead the dough into long strips, then cut the long strips into small pieces and roll them into dough. Then chop some vegetables or meat and mix them with seasonings such as oil, salt, sauce and vinegar to make stuffing. Then wrap the stuffing with dough, and squeeze the dough slightly by hand, so that a beautiful jiaozi is ready. These wrapped jiaozi also have different shapes and profound meanings: crescent-shaped ones are called "Pinfu"; The ingot shape symbolizes wealth everywhere, full of gold and silver; The ear of wheat symbolizes the bumper harvest in the new year ... It seems that this little jiaozi is also full of people's yearning for a better life!
Jiaozi is not just the patent of China people! Jiaozi also has a unique flavor abroad. For example, the fillings in jiaozi are beef, carrots, eggs, onions, salt and monosodium glutamate. In addition, they will add some pepper to jiaozi, and the package is very big. The most special thing is that they cooked jiaozi with clear soup made of ox bones. However, for Russians, cooking jiaozi soup is the first course, and eating jiaozi is the second course. Other jiaozi, such as Hungarian jiaozi, Italian jiaozi and South Korean jiaozi, are also very distinctive and unique.
Seeing this, you must be very greedy! Let's make a delicious jiaozi together!