Speaking of jiaozi, we are all familiar with it. In China, whenever we celebrate festivals, we always welcome jiaozi. Jiaozi is smooth and delicious, with delicious taste and profound meaning. Every year on New Year's Eve, every family in the north of China will sit around and wrap up jiaozi. "Everyone loves jiaozi, and the New Year's Eve dinner is especially fragrant in jiaozi." This sentence represents people's love for jiaozi.
Jiaozi has a long history, which began in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. When Zhang Zhongjing, a "medical sage", returned to his hometown on the solstice of winter, he saw many poor people suffering from frostbite, hunger and cold, and many people caught cold. Zhang Zhongjing felt pity, so he set up a medicine shed in the local area and set up a cauldron, which was stuffed with mutton, peppers and cold herbs, and then wrapped into ear shapes for the poor to eat. People eat from the solstice of winter until New Year's Eve to resist typhoid fever and cure their frozen ears. To thank Zhang Zhongjing for his kindness and selflessness. Every winter solstice and New Year's Eve, people eat jiaozi. Gradually, eating jiaozi has become a custom in China.
Jiaozi has different names at different times. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Jiaozi was called Joule. In the Tang Dynasty, it was called "Tang Zhong Prison Pill". The Yuan Dynasty was called the "Year Corner"; In the late Ming dynasty, it was called "powder angle"; The Qing Dynasty was also called "plain food" ... With the development of history, jiaozi gradually began to become diverse. For example, Guangdong's shrimp dumplings, Shanghai's fried dumpling jiaozi, Yangzhou's steamed dumplings with crab roe, Shandong's soup dumplings, and jiaozi in the northeast. Sichuan dumplings, etc. , each with its own characteristics, is very popular.
Jiaozi is not only delicious, but also unique and simple. First, you need to knead the dough into long strips, then cut the long strips into small pieces and roll them into dough. Then chop up some vegetables or meat, and mix with oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and other seasonings to make stuffing. Then wrap the stuffing with dough and squeeze the dough a little by hand, and a beautiful jiaozi will be made. The jiaozi of these parcels also has different shapes and profound meanings: crescent-shaped ones are called "Pinfu"; There are ingots symbolizing wealth everywhere, full of gold and silver; The ear of wheat symbolizes the bumper harvest in the new year ... It seems that this little jiaozi is also full of people's yearning for a better life!
Jiaozi is not just the patent of China people! Foreign jiaozi also has a unique flavor. Jiaozi, for example, is stuffed with beef, carrots, eggs, onions, salt and monosodium glutamate. In addition, they will add some pepper powder to jiaozi, which will be wrapped in a big bag. The most special thing is that they cooked jiaozi with clear soup made of beef bones. However, for Russians, cooking jiaozi soup is the first course, and eating jiaozi is the second course. Others, such as Hungarian jiaozi, Italian jiaozi and South Korean jiaozi, are also very distinctive and unique.
Seeing this, you must be greedy! Let's work together to make a delicious jiaozi!