Eating jiaozi on the New Year's Eve symbolizes the alternation of the old and the new, and the implication of having sex at a younger age. It is also because jiaozi looks like a silver ingot and a pot of jiaozi. On the table, there is a beautiful meaning of making a fortune in the New Year and the ingot rolling in. Some people wrap jiaozi with a few coins sterilized by boiling water, saying that whoever eats them first will make a lot of money next year.
Jiaozi is one of the traditional foods in China. In ancient times, it was called "jiaozi", also called flat food or boiled cake. In ancient times, there were only wonton and no jiaozi. Later, the wonton was made into a crescent shape and became jiaozi. On New Year's Eve, as soon as twelve o'clock strikes, we begin to eat jiaozi, so it is the time of the year, which means that the old and the new alternate and the time of the year comes. In the Tang Dynasty, the habit of eating jiaozi had spread to the remote areas of China.
Other foods eaten at New Year's Eve and their implications
Eating glutinous rice balls on New Year's Eve symbolizes reunion. Eating glutinous rice balls on New Year's Eve is more common in southern China. Tangyuan is made by rubbing glutinous rice into a round shape. You can also add stuffing with different flavors into it and cook it in a pot, which means that it is round and round, so you will eat it at the New Year's Eve in the south.
Eating rice cakes on New Year's Eve symbolizes rising steadily. In some parts of our country, New Year's Eve will have rice cakes. The custom of eating rice cakes began in the Song Dynasty and became popular in the Ming Dynasty. Eating rice cakes has the meaning of good luck and good luck, which is interpreted as the meaning of rising year by year. Therefore, some places will eat rice cakes on New Year's Eve, and pray for continuous promotion in the coming year.