After eating, go out to pay New Year's greetings, from near to far, from noon to after lighting the lamp. "On this basis, Tang prison pill is similar to jiaozi, it is boiled and steamed. The word "trough" appeared in food in Song Dynasty. In the Yuan Dynasty, jiaozi was called "flat food", which probably came from Mongolian. Jiaozi in Ming Dynasty, as Zheng Zitong said, was called dumpling bait, powder dumpling, dumpling and steamed noodle dumpling. In addition, there are names such as water snacks. In the Qing Dynasty, Beijing Banners also called jiaozi "Cooking Cakes". Eating jiaozi on New Year's Day was popular in the north during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. For example, wanping county, a suburb of Beijing, said in Wanbu Miscellanies written by Shen Bang during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty: "If you cook a flat food on New Year's Day, you will live a long life. "During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the records of Quwo County, Shanxi Province recorded:" On the second day, the food is guaranteed, and the husband asks for happiness. The word "flat food" was handed down among the people in the Yuan Dynasty.

Jiaozi stick figure

2, rice cakes

The rice cake is also called sticky cake, which means it gets taller every year. It is made of glutinous rice in the south and sticky millet in the north. Rice cakes have a long history. Rice cakes in Han Dynasty are called rice cakes, cakes, bait and cakes. The recipe of "white cocoon sugar" for making rice cakes was found in Historical Records in the 6th century, and the method of grinding rice into powder for making rice cakes was recorded in Qi Shu Yao Min in the Northern Dynasty. Eating rice cakes on New Year's Day was very popular in Ming and Qing Dynasties, especially in the south. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Volume II of Scenery of the Imperial Capital recorded that on New Year's Day of the first month, "I wash, eat jujube cakes and eat rice cakes excitedly every day". In Jiajing, northern Hebei Province, records in Wei County say that local people eat "steamed mutton cakes".

Rice cake stick figure