Tomorrow is the seventeenth day of the first month, which is a popular day. It is a custom handed down in ancient times, saying that it is the seventh day, the seventeenth day and the twenty-seventh day, and the days with seven days are called "popular days". People think that the weather can predict the rise and fall of a person's year, so on the seventeenth day of the first month, if the weather is clear and the sun is shining, it will indicate a good omen and a year's luck will be very good. So on this day, people will habitually eat two kinds of delicious food to pray for good luck for a year.

Eating jiaozi has a very beautiful meaning. jiaozi is shaped like a small round ingot. The bigger the belly is squeezed, the more stuffing it will contain. It also means that the richer you are, remember to eat jiaozi on the 17th day of the first month, and people habitually eat jiaozi stuffed with tofu. Tofu is the homonym of "Dufu", which means that everyone is blessed.

Tofu jiaozi

Ingredients: Tofu, Lentinus edodes, celery, soy sauce, oyster sauce, salt, chicken essence, spiced powder and dumpling skin.

Practice: 1. Prepare a hard piece of Beidoufu, first soak it in clear water, and then cut it into cubes. Add vegetable oil into the wok, heat it to 6% heat, add the diced tofu and stir-fry until flowers appear on the surface. When the color turns yellow, pour it out and put it in a large basin for cooling.

2. Clean all the mushrooms and celery, add clean water to the wok, and heat it until it boils. Put the mushrooms and celery into boiling water for two minutes, take them out, cut them into small pieces, put them into a meat grinder, break them into pieces, put them into a gauze, and put them into tofu.

3. Add a spoonful of allspice powder, a spoonful of salt, soy sauce, oyster sauce and chicken essence, stir well, then add vegetable oil and continue to stir well.

4. Wrap the mixed stuffing into the dumpling skin, pinch the mouth tightly, and knead it into an ingot shape with two sharp ends and a bigger belly. Add clear water to the pot, boil it, then put jiaozi into it and start to cook until the jiaozi floats, then add a spoonful of cold water, and continue to cook until the water boils.

The fifteenth day of the first month is the Lantern Festival, also known as the Lantern Festival. The Lantern Festival ends on the seventeenth day of the first month, so we should "turn off the lanterns", that is, take down the lanterns hung in various places and collect them together, put them in one place for safekeeping, and then take them out for use in the next year. If there are dragon lanterns, we should burn them in a unified place and put them away for use next year. There is also a proverb on this day: