As long as you celebrate the New Year in the north, you will find that every household in the north eats dumplings, because eating dumplings during the New Year means family reunion, hoping that the whole family will be happy, healthy, and everything goes well in the new year. At the same time,

This is also their traditional custom. The custom of eating dumplings during the Chinese New Year in the north has a history of more than 2,000 years.

Eating dumplings during the Spring Festival is a northern custom. The custom of northerners is to eat dumplings during the New Year. No matter which province in the north, dumplings are basically eaten during the New Year. Therefore, eating dumplings is easily regarded as a symbol of the Chinese New Year.

Because among the 1.3 billion people, there are far more people who eat dumplings than eat braised pork, rice dumplings, slaughtered chickens, and glutinous rice balls.

Nowadays, dumplings are eaten not only by the people in the north, but also by the army. No matter where the army is, as long as the New Year comes, all officers and soldiers will make dumplings.

Why are dumplings called "Gengsuijiaozi"? Only northerners can make dumplings into shapes, as if they have been ironed with an iron. A very important aspect of the auspiciousness of dumplings is that their shape resembles the ancient "hard" dumplings.

"Currency" Yuanbao; eating dumplings is similar to a ritual, symbolically "recruiting wealth and treasure".

On the other hand, by borrowing the homophony of dumplings, it takes the meaning of the alternation of the old and the new, and the meaning of "Jiaozi".

In the Qing Dynasty and even the Republic of China, dumplings were also called "boiled dumplings".

"Summer is over, autumn is over, and during the New Year, I have to serve my mother-in-law again, and quickly make dumplings. The skin is thin and the fillings are rich. My mother-in-law laughs after eating it, and my daughter-in-law spends a lot of money." This is a poem from Li Guangting's "Xie Yi" by Li Guangting in the Qing Dynasty.

From the folk songs included in the book, it seems that making dumplings means integrating the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

The meaning of dumplings is very important to northerners. Eating dumplings itself is not a delicacy. Making dumplings and sitting together with the whole family has a greater symbolic meaning.

In rural areas in the north, women make dumplings, and the sisters-in-law sit together and make dumplings together. This is a time of reunion all year round. Without the work of making dumplings, they would not be able to sit together, so this custom is very important.

What’s important is bringing the family together.

In the city, men also have to make dumplings, and the whole family sits together to make dumplings. This kind of family happiness is rare in a year, so it is particularly valued by others.

Dumplings and feet have the same pronunciation. Eating dumplings before leaving will make you walk vigorously. When relatives are leaving for a long distance, northerners will also make dumplings to see them off. This is a sign of the closeness of their relatives.