As long as you spend the New Year in the north, you will find that every family in the north will eat jiaozi, because the implication of eating jiaozi in the New Year is that the family is round and round, hoping that the whole family will be happy, healthy and prosperous in the new year. At the same time, this is also their traditional custom. The custom of eating jiaozi in the north for the New Year has a history of more than 2,111 years.

Eating dumplings in the Spring Festival is a custom in the north.

People in the north eat jiaozi in the New Year, but no matter which province in the north, they basically eat jiaozi in the New Year. Therefore, eating jiaozi is easily regarded as a symbol of Chinese New Year in China. Because among the 1.3 billion people, the number of people who eat jiaozi is far more than those who eat braised pork, zongba, killing chickens and eating glutinous rice balls. Now, people who eat jiaozi, not only the people in the north, but also the army, want to eat jiaozi. No matter where the troops are, as long as it comes to the New Year, all officers and soldiers will take care of jiaozi.

Why is jiaozi called a "jiaozi"

Only northerners can make jiaozi into a shape, like ironing jiaozi with an iron. On the one hand, it is very important for its shape, which looks like an ancient ingot as a "hard currency"; Eating jiaozi, similar to a ceremony, symbolically means "making a fortune". On the other hand, by using jiaozi's homophonic words, it takes the meaning of "turning old and new" and "making friends at a younger age". In the Qing Dynasty and even the Republic of China, dumplings were also called "boiled cakes". "Summer, autumn, New Year's Day and to serve her mother-in-law, quick package cooking. The skin is thin and the stuffing is too much. My mother-in-law laughs and her daughter-in-law pays for it. " This is a folk song included in Li Guangting's book "Xiang Yan Jie Yi" in Qing Dynasty, which seems to imply the integration of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

The moral of jiaozi is very important to northerners

Eating jiaozi itself is not a delicacy, but it is more symbolic to have jiaozi and the whole family sitting together. In the northern rural areas, jiaozi is women's bag. When the time comes, the sisters-in-law will sit together and get together. This is a time of reunion all year round. If there is no job like jiaozi, they will not be able to sit together. Therefore, this custom is very important and has condensed the family. In the city, men also have to pack, and the whole family, old and young, sit together to pack jiaozi. This kind of family happiness is rare every year, so it is especially valued. Dumplings are homophonic with feet. When you leave for jiaozi, you walk with strong feet, and your relatives will go out of town. Northerners will also send jiaozi off. This is all of my heart of your relatives.