Eating jiaozi on New Year's Day, eating jiaozi on the fifth day of the first month, and eating jiaozi on the winter solstice ... For many people, jiaozi seems to be the "standard" for festivals, with countless beautiful meanings.

However, it is also said that jiaozi is the staple food and local snacks of the people in northern China, and it is also the food for the New Year. However, in the south, people usually eat glutinous rice balls and braised chicken with sesame oil in beginning of winter during the winter solstice, and the custom of eating jiaozi on holidays mainly exists in the north.

? Why are northerners all controlled by jiaozi? ?

? Reason one: jiaozi symbolizes beauty

1. On New Year's Eve, people wrap up jiaozi and enjoy it until midnight, which means to leave the old year and welcome the new year

2. Because jiaozi is shaped like an "ingot", people eat jiaozi on New Year's Day, which means to "make money into treasure"

? Reason 2: Natural conditions are suitable

Wheat (the raw material of jiaozi) is more suitable to be planted in the north, so jiaozi is more likely to become a food for northerners with pasta as the main food

? Reason three: the making process is not complicated

1. Prepare the skin and stuffing

2. Wrap jiaozi

3. Cook jiaozi

? Reason 4: jiaozi has appetite to drive away cold and nutrition

People often say that "Touyou jiaozi Erfu noodles" means that it is hot and muggy in the dog days, so it is suitable for eating jiaozi, which can stimulate appetite and relieve hunger.

It's cold in winter in the north. jiaozi's delicious soup and stuffing can warm our stomachs to a great extent. When the stomach is warm, people will be warm.

Not only that, jiaozi is also a "perfect match" of cereals, vegetables and meat, with reasonable collocation and rich nutrition!

? Jiaozi is an "evolutionary history" of delicacies?

There are several different opinions about the origin of jiaozi. One of them thinks that jiaozi originated from the ancient "slot", which is also the etymology of the word "jiaozi" today.

According to records, dumplings were called "prison pills" or "powder horns" in the Tang Dynasty. It was called a corner in the Song Dynasty, and "Dream of China in Tokyo" said that there were crystal corners and fried corners in Bianjing. In the Qing Dynasty, besides "flat food", dumplings were also called "boiled cakes".

There were many ways to make jiaozi in Ming Dynasty. For example, baked jiaozi made of hot noodles and fried jiaozi; Song's Health Department written by Song Xu has a kind of "honey through the corner", which is a kind of fried jiaozi with peeled walnuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts or molasses and red bean paste as stuffing.

Later, it was mentioned in "Clear Barnyard Notes" edited by Xu Ke, a writer, that "boiled with water and soup is called dumplings". This can probably be regarded as a relatively clear description and definition of "jiaozi".

with the passage of time, this kind of food has been added with various legends, some of which are quite legendary. It is said that the weather was very cold when Nu Wa made a baby, and the ears of the little people made of loess were easy to fall off. In order to fix them, she thought of a way.

Nu Wa pricked a small hole in the villain's ear, then tied the ear with a thin thread, and the other end of the thread was put in the villain's mouth to bite. As time passed, people began to wrap jiaozi's commemorative Nu Wa, saying that if they ate jiaozi in winter, their ears would not freeze.

? The cultural connotation of a bowl of jiaozi?

Nowadays, jiaozi is a very common food, and it can be eaten at any time of the year, not just on the New Year's Day or a holiday. From the perspective of folklore, jiaozi is delicious, and it was indeed a rare food when the material was poor in the past; The food eaten during festivals is often entrusted with beautiful meanings. jiaozi is shaped like an ingot, and it also has the auspicious meaning of "making money into treasure". As for the reason why northerners like to eat jiaozi on holidays, some netizens once concluded that they don't have to eat jiaozi on holidays, but like the feeling that the whole family will pack jiaozi and share delicious food together, talking and laughing, and making a lot of noise. It can be seen that jiaozi is more than just delicious food. While eating jiaozi, people are more concerned about the cultural atmosphere of the festival and a deep affection.