jiaozi has become an indispensable holiday food for the Spring Festival. The reasons are as follows: First, jiaozi is shaped like an ingot. People eat jiaozi in the Spring Festival and take the sound of "making money into treasure"; Second, jiaozi has stuffing, which is convenient for people to put all kinds of auspicious things into stuffing, so as to pin people's hopes for the new year. ?

When wrapping jiaozi, people often wrap Jin Ruyi, sugar, peanuts, dates and chestnuts into stuffing. Those who eat Jin Ruyi and sugar will have a sweeter life in the coming year, those who eat peanuts will live a long and healthy life, and those who eat dates and chestnuts will have a baby early.

In some areas, when people eat jiaozi, they should also prepare some non-staple food to show good luck. If you eat tofu, it symbolizes the happiness of the whole family; Eating persimmon symbolizes all the best; Eat three fresh vegetables. It symbolizes that Sanyang opens Thailand. People in Taiwan Province eat fish balls, meat balls and seaweed, symbolizing reunion and getting rich.

jiaozi has a wide variety of fillings because of their different stuffing and making methods. Even if they are the same kind of dumplings, there are different ways to eat them: Daur people in Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang want to cook jiaozi in vermicelli broth. Then even the soup with jiaozi to eat; In some areas of Henan, jiaozi and noodles are cooked together, which is called "Gold thread wears gold ingots".

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

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five blessings

This jiaozi is the best way to win a prize on the first day of the New Year! Although it is colorful, it is actually very simple. Adding squeezed vegetable juice, carrot juice, taro juice, strawberry juice or cocoa powder into the dough, the packaged jiaozi will be green, yellow, light brown, red and brown. You can try different colors of raw materials in the kitchen, and you can always find a beautiful and delicious "color" jiaozi. The stuffing is not demanding, but the colors of jiaozi are enough to make people shine at the moment, and different colors of dough have different tastes, so no one will criticize the stuffing inside. Of course, if you have enough leisure and interest, you can also pack five tricks.

yes man

becomes a veritable Yuanyang dumpling, which is beautiful, simple and delicious. Different colors have different fillings, such as a lamb with green onions and a beef carrot. Sometimes, a little novelty can make our dining table different without too much.

1. wrap two colors of jiaozi separately.

2. Align the two jiaozi again, and pinch the two ends overlapping.

3. The thumb is pressed inward along the edge of jiaozi, and the edge is skirt-like, until the whole jiaozi is covered.

Lucky for money

This is the representative of Cantonese-style crystal dumplings-ribbon dumplings. It is not difficult to make crystal dumplings at home. If you master this ratio, you can make them into a transparent crystal shape by boiling water and steaming them with stuffing.

stuffing: 15g of scallop, 5g of pork, 3g of mushroom, 7g of salt, 1g of edible powder, 4g of monosodium glutamate, 4g of sugar, a little of chicken essence, chicken powder and oyster sauce.

Preparation:

1. Marinate the belt with raw flour for 15 minutes to remove the fishy smell, soak the dried mushrooms and chop them.

2. break the pork, add the edible powder and grab it by hand until it becomes sticky, add the scallops and mushrooms, add the above seasonings and mix well until it becomes sticky.

Everything goes well

1. Put stuffing on the dough, and pinch the two sides with your thumb and forefinger.

2. pinch the remaining two sides.

3. Fill 4 eyes with cooked egg yolk, auricularia auricula, tomato and green cherry, and steam in the pan.

stuffing: shrimp, chicken, shredded radish, shredded red pepper, vermicelli and coriander.

Besides, when you eat jiaozi, you can enjoy it with a few side dishes and a little wine!

The new year is not only auspicious, but also colorful! ?

According to Guangya written by Zhang Yi, a Wei native of the Three Kingdoms, there was a crescent-shaped food called "wonton" at that time, which was basically similar to the shape of jiaozi today. By the time of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, wonton was "shaped like a crescent moon, and the world was full of food". It is speculated that when jiaozi was cooked, it was not fished out and eaten alone, but mixed with soup in a bowl, so people called jiaozi "wonton" at that time. This way of eating is still popular in some areas of our country. For example, people in Henan and Shaanxi eat jiaozi, and they should put some small ingredients such as coriander, chopped green onion, shrimp skin and leek in the soup.

By about the Tang Dynasty, jiaozi had become exactly the same as jiaozi today, and it was fished out and eaten on a plate alone.

jiaozi was called "Jiao Er" in Song Dynasty, which was the etymology of the word "jiaozi" in later generations. This kind of writing can still be seen in the following Yuan, Ming, Qing and Republic of China.

The Yuan Dynasty called jiaozi a "flat food". During the Wanli period of Ming Dynasty, Shen Bang's Miscellaneous Notes of Wan Department recorded: "New Year's Day, New Year's greetings ...... as a plaque food". Liu Ruoyu's "Deliberation in Records" states: "Eating fruit snacks on the first day of the Lunar New Year, that is, eating food on a plaque." The "plaque" of the "plaque food" in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties has now been commonly used as "flat". A "flat food" may come from Mongolian.

During the Qing Dynasty, new appellations about jiaozi appeared, such as "dumpling", "water snack" and "boiled cake". The increase of jiaozi's names shows that its geographical spread is constantly expanding.

The folk custom of eating jiaozi during the Spring Festival was quite popular in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Jiaozi is usually wrapped before 12 o'clock in the evening of New Year's Eve and eaten at midnight. At this time, it is the beginning of the first day of the first lunar month. Eating jiaozi means "making friends at a younger age", and "zi" is homophonic with "dumpling", which means "happy reunion" and "good luck".

There are many legends about eating jiaozi during the Spring Festival. One is to commemorate Pangu's creation and end the mixed state. The other is to take it as a homonym with "Hundun", which means "full of grain". In addition, it is also said that eating jiaozi's folk language is related to Nu Wa's making people. When Nu Wa's soil caused people, the ears of the loess people were easily frozen off because of the cold weather. In order to make the ears not be fixed, Nu Wa put a small eye in the ear, tied it with a thin thread, and put the other end of the thread in the mouth of the loess people to bite it, so as to make the ears well. In order to commemorate the achievements of Nu Wa, ordinary people wrapped up jiaozi, shaped it into an adult's ear with flour, wrapped it with stuffing (thread) and ate it with their mouths.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Eat jiaozi.