Jiaozi originated from the Han Dynasty: in the Han Dynasty, it was so cold in winter that many people's ears were frozen. Zhang Zhongjing, a famous doctor, thought of a good way to wrap cold-dispelling herbs and mutton in dough, cook them with water and give them to the poor. Because it looks like an ear and treats frostbite, people call it Joule. Later, people imitated Zhang Zhongjing's method of Bao jiaozi and gradually changed his name from "Joule" to "Joule". Read it again, and for the sake of fluency, change it to later jiaozi.
Modern writer Tsui Hark's book "Clearing Money" officially confirmed the name of "jiaozi": "jiaozi cooked with water and soup." Before that, jiaozi had many names in ancient China: Shiluojoule in the Yuan Dynasty, Fenjiao in the late Ming Dynasty, jiaozi's flat food and boiled buns in the Qing Dynasty, and jiaozi's water buns in Jinan and other places in the Qing Dynasty.
Jiaozi's "jiao" and "jiao" are homophonic, and both "he" and "jiao" have the meaning of meeting, so Jiaozi symbolizes the reunion of acacia; It is very auspicious to make friends with older people; In addition, because jiaozi is shaped like an ingot, eating jiaozi in the New Year also has the auspicious meaning of "making money into treasure". Bao jiaozi is also a production activity of a group. The whole family went into battle together: kneading dough, rolling skin, mixing stuffing, wrapping vegetables, cooking, chatting and joking while working, and the whole family was happy.
At present, the time for wrapping jiaozi and eating jiaozi, the stuffing, the wrapping method and so on are all arbitrary. If you like to eat jiaozi, you can pack it yourself, buy frozen jiaozi, and go to the dumpling house to enjoy it. So, in the past, what are the interesting customs and details about jiaozi and jiaozi?
1: Chop stuffing loudly
When chopping dumplings on New Year's Eve, you must chop them loudly, the bigger the better, so that neighbors can hear them clearly. "Having food" means "having money", which symbolizes having money and making a fortune in the coming year. [If there is a family shrine at home, you can't chop stuffing loudly, because family members should respect the shrine quietly. ]
2. Bao Li is lucky.
As a child, jiaozi had to wrap a coin in the jiaozi. Whoever eats it will have good luck next year. In addition, there are sugar, peanuts, dates and chestnuts wrapped in jiaozi. Sugar means that the new year will be sweet; Peanut symbolizes longevity; Chestnuts and dates mean "premature coagulation".
3: Can't count.
Friends who have old people at home may have heard that they can't check the number when they package jiaozi. This is a lucky statement, because:
1) jiaozi symbolizes the gold ingot. Not counting the number of jiaozi means that there will be countless wealth in the coming year, more and more every year. If you count the money you will earn in the coming year, it will not be endless, but the more you count, the less you will get.
2) Counting while eating jiaozi will make you look like a poor man. Just like a miser, you will spend money while counting it, but in the end, your money will get less and less.
4. jiaozi should have surplus.
When you pack jiaozi, you should pack more, which means more than one year.
5: jiaozi wants bigger stuffing.
Jiaozi should make the stuffing as big as possible. There is a saying called "thin skin and big stuffing", which actually means that jiaozi with big stuffing is very full after cooking, which means that the whole family is full in the new year.
6: The wrapped jiaozi is packed by rings.
When the wrapped jiaozi is placed on the curtain, it should not be placed at will, but arranged in a circle in order, all facing the same direction, which means "round happiness". You can't put two jiaozi face to face or back to back, because face to face means "bitter". It is easy to have a "quarrel" with people in the coming year; Back-to-back placement means that families will deviate from the meaning of disagreement in the coming year.
7. vinegar can't be called vinegar, it should be called "taboo"
In Northeast China, Shandong and other regions, vinegar can not be called vinegar, but should be called "taboo". This allusion comes from the court of the Tang Dynasty. In order to win the hearts of the people, Emperor Taizong wanted to take a concubine for Fang, the prime minister at that time. The minister's wife intervened out of jealousy and refused to let him do so. Emperor Taizong had no choice but to let the minister's wife choose between drinking poisoned wine and taking concubines. I didn't expect Mrs. Fang to be a little strong-willed and would rather die than bow before the emperor. So I picked up the cup of "poisoned wine" and gulped it down. When Mrs. Fang finished drinking with tears in her eyes, she found that the forest was not poisonous wine, but thick vinegar with sweet and sour taste. Since then, people have combined "jealousy" with "jealousy", and "jealousy" has become a metaphor of jealousy.
8. When the cooked jiaozi cracks, you can't say it is broken, but you should say "earned".
When you cook jiaozi, you will inevitably cook jiaozi, but you can't say "broken" or "broken", but "earned", which means "earned". The food in dumpling stuffing is homophonic with "wealth", which means "making money" and "making big money", both for good luck and good luck.
9. Ma Weidou people pay attention to eating jiaozi.
I believe many friends have seen a video of Ma Weidou, which talked about the way people eat jiaozi: for example, there are 20 jiaozi in a plate: eat five with a white mouth, then eat five with vinegar, then eat some soy sauce after eating, then eat five, finally eat some spicy oil, and then eat five. A plate of jiaozi has four levels and four flavors.
All the above-mentioned emphasis and statements are some traditional customs and good wishes that the older generation insisted on in the eyes of the old times. Occasionally listening to the old people chanting old times and old sayings can be regarded as a kind of filial piety to the old people and nostalgia for the old times. Now, people can eat as much jiaozi as they want, and as much jiaozi as they want. Besides the four ways of eating in Ma Weidou and jiaozi, melodramatic people can eat more complicated ways as long as they like. What do you think?