1. According to the ancient custom, jiaozi is eaten after the Spring Festival sacrifice. During the Chinese New Year, it is of special significance to pay attention to jiaozi and jiaozi at the end of the year, that is, jiaozi at the end of the year. This is a time to welcome the new year and bid farewell to the old year. It means "making friends with young people", and "making friends with children" is homophonic with "jiaozi", which means happy reunion and good luck, indicating good luck in the new year;

2. jiaozi is shaped like an ingot. People eat jiaozi during the Spring Festival to get the sound of "making money". Jiaozi has stuffing, which is convenient for people to put all kinds of auspicious and happy things into the stuffing and pin people's good expectations for the new year;

3. jiaozi is a delicious food, and there is a folk saying that "lying down is not as comfortable as jiaozi is not as delicious".

Eating jiaozi in the Spring Festival has a long history, which was quite popular as early as Ming and Qing Dynasties. Jiaozi called it "dumpling ears" and "flat food" in ancient times. Eating jiaozi is one of the most important customs during the Spring Festival.

Be sure to wrap jiaozi before midnight on New Year's Eve and cook it then. At this time, it is the beginning of the first day of the first lunar month. Eating jiaozi means "making friends when you are young".

"Zi" means "Zi Shi", which is homophonic with "Jiao", so it is named "Jiao Zi", which means happy reunion, auspiciousness, sweetness and peace.

In addition, jiaozi is shaped like an ingot, so eating jiaozi in the Spring Festival means making a fortune; Then there is the stuffing in jiaozi. People want to wrap things symbolizing good luck in jiaozi, which is the expectation for the new year.

Generally speaking, on New Year's Eve, we will eat jiaozi with meat stuffing, while on New Year's Day, we will eat jiaozi with vegetarian stuffing. When wrapping jiaozi, people will wrap coins, peppers and peanuts in jiaozi. People who eat in different jiaozi will have different luck in the coming year.