Eating jiaozi means "making friends when I was young", while "Zi" means "Zi Shi", which is homophonic with "Jiao" and means "Happy Reunion" and "Good luck".
As early as the Three Kingdoms period, this kind of food was mentioned in the book Guangya written by Wei. According to textual research, it was developed from the "Crescent Wonton" from the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty and the "Double-horned Dried Meat" in the Southern Song Dynasty, with a history of 1400 years. According to the historical records of the Qing Dynasty; "When we are not together during the Chinese New Year, it is like eating a flat food and making a famous slot, which means making friends when we are old." He also said: "Every first day, whether rich or poor, jiaozi is wrapped in white flour, which is called boiled cake, and it is the same all over the country. A rich family is hidden in gold and silver treasures. If it succeeds, those who provide food for their families will be lucky in the end. " This shows that people eat jiaozi in the Spring Festival, which means good luck, to show that they will bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. near
Tsui Hark's "Clear Money" said: "There is stuffing in it, or it is called powder horn-steamed and fried, and the boiled soup is called jiaozi."
Today, jiaozi has become an indispensable program food for the Spring Festival, and jiaozi has also become the mascot of the Spring Festival. It is also because it is shaped like a silver ingot. Eating jiaozi in the Spring Festival symbolizes the meaning of "making a fortune in the New Year, and the ingots are rolling in", which embodies people's good wish of "making a lot of money".
Post Spring Festival couplets for the New Year.
Spring Festival couplets, commonly known as door pairs. Every Spring Festival, every household sticks red couplets on their doors, which adds to the festive atmosphere.
Spring Festival couplets originated from ancient peach symbols. Fu Tao is a rectangular red board hanging on both sides of the gate. Write the names "Shen Tu" and "Lei Yu" on it to ward off evil spirits. During the Spring Festival, people always replace the old ones with the new ones. Wang Anshi's poem "Thousands of households always get rid of old peaches for new ones" is about this.
Spring Festival couplets began in the Five Dynasties. In 964 AD, Meng Changjun, the late ruler of Shu, first asked the bachelor Xin to write an inscription on the peach board, but he thought his writing was unstable, so he wrote "New Year, Festival Promise". "Changchun by himself. Since then, carving peach characters has evolved into writing Spring Festival couplets. Later, due to the mass production of paper, people gradually replaced red boards with paper. This is the beginning of posting Spring Festival couplets.
The popularity of Spring Festival couplets prevailed in the Ming Dynasty. According to Miscellanies of Mao Yunlou, "Spring Festival couplets began in Ming Taizu. Jinling, the imperial capital, suddenly issued a decree on New Year's Eve, and officials and scholars must put a pair of Spring Festival couplets on their doors. Mao Wei walked out of sight and thought he was laughing. " Moreover, he also wrote Spring Festival couplets for princes and ministers. The couplet for Xu Da, the king of Zhongshan, is: "Breaking the Lu and being a savage, the merit is the first in ancient and modern times; When you go out, you will go to chinese odyssey. " The couplet given to Tao An is: "The national dynasty is unparalleled, and the article from Hanyuan is the first." Due to the practice of the emperor, the love of literati and the spread of the masses, Spring Festival couplets have been handed down as a custom.