The custom of eating jiaozi

There are many important festivals, and jiaozi undoubtedly plays a very important role in diet. For example, on New Year's Eve, we will eat jiaozi, jiaozi when we break the fifth lunar month, jiaozi when we fall asleep, jiaozi in beginning of autumn, and jiaozi on the winter solstice. Why do you eat jiaozi these days?

jiaozi is a kind of folk food with a long history, which is very popular among the people. There is a folk saying that "it's delicious but not as good as jiaozi". During the Spring Festival, jiaozi has become an indispensable delicacy.

In the north, it is a very common custom to eat jiaozi during the New Year's Eve. You must eat jiaozi for the New Year's Eve. No matter how poor you are, you must borrow money to help jiaozi eat. In the rural areas of Northeast China, it is more particular to eat jiaozi in the New Year's Eve. For example, putting a few coins in jiaozi means that whoever eats it will make a fortune next year. In addition, we need to pack some jiaozi with white sugar stuffing, which means that the coming year will be sweet and beautiful. In a word, through this jiaozi, we should include the expectations of the new year.

jiaozi, a program of delicacies, has become an important part of China's food culture while bringing people joy in the New Year.

Introduction to the origin of the custom of eating jiaozi

1. Why do you eat jiaozi on New Year's Eve?

"jiaozi" and "Jiaozi" are homonyms, and jiaozi takes the meaning of "Gengnianjiaozi" as its name. Although jiaozi, as a daily staple food in northern China, can eat every meal, at the same time, jiaozi is the most important New Year's food, and the first day of the Lunar New Year is the "punctual time" to eat jiaozi. Jiaozi usually wraps up before 12: p.m. on New Year's Eve, and even cooks boiled jiaozi at 11: p.m. After the Chinese New Year bell rings and firecrackers are let off, everyone wishes each other New Year, and then the whole family sits around and eats jiaozi steaming with joy, which means "happy reunion" and "good luck".

China people in Tujili, jiaozi attaches great importance to the meaning of stuffing, for example, celery stuffing, which means "diligence and progress" and "diligence and wealth"; Leek stuffing means "long time" and "long wealth"; Chinese cabbage stuffing means "a hundred years of harmony, growing old together" and "a hundred treasures"; Mushroom stuffing, meaning "drum up money", bulging purse; Sauerkraut stuffing means "counting money" and is good at managing money.

In addition, according to the old northerners, in the past, when jiaozi was wrapped in Tujili for the New Year, a few coins were washed and wrapped in several jiaozi. Whoever ate the coins in jiaozi would be considered to be rich and rich in the coming year, and some people wrapped some sweets in individual jiaozi. Whoever ate jiaozi with sweets would be considered to have a sweet life in the coming year.

There are many ways to fold and wrap dumpling wrappers. The most common folding method is to put a proper amount of stuffing to fold the dumpling skin in half and seal it into a semicircle. "Four-Happy Dumplings" with one dumpling and four flavors are made by kneading the larger dumpling skins into "Tian-shaped" squares, putting different fillings in each square, and then steaming them into "Four-Happy Steamed Dumplings". In addition, there are fish-shaped dumplings, white rabbit dumplings, sun dumplings, crescent dumplings, and ingot dumplings ... jiaozi can be wrapped into various shapes as long as you like.

There are restaurants serving colorful jiaozi, which is very popular. Make dumpling wrappers with different colors, such as spinach, carrots and other vegetable juices and flour, or mixed with different colors of whole grains in white flour.

2. Why do you eat jiaozi on the fifth day of the first month?

Besides eating jiaozi on the New Year's Eve, the fifth day of the first month is called "Breaking the Fifth" and you should also eat jiaozi. There is a saying that there are many taboos within a few days from the first day to the fifth day, so people should not "act rashly". Once the fifth day is over, the New Year's Eve is basically over, so they are no longer taboo, so they should eat jiaozi's congratulations.

3. Why do you eat jiaozi when you are sleeping?

The dog days are the days with the highest temperature, humidity and sultry weather in a year, with "dog days" in a year. The "bitter summer" that the people say is at this time. When the wheat harvest was less than a month, people in Man Cang, every family valley, took advantage of this opportunity to have a rare tooth sacrifice and eat white flour. jiaozi is also a top grade that is hard to see at ordinary times, so there is a saying in old Beijing that "the head falls on jiaozi and the face falls on the ground".