Eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve means "making friends is young", and "making friends" is homophonic with "jiaozi", which also means "happy reunion" and "good luck".
In some areas, when people eat jiaozi, they have to match some non-staple food to show their good luck. If you eat tofu, it symbolizes the happiness of the whole family; Eating persimmons symbolizes all the best; Eat three fresh vegetables. It symbolizes that Sanyang opens Thailand. People in Taiwan Province Province eat fish balls, meatballs and seaweed, symbolizing reunion and wealth. In some places, coins of one yuan, fifty cents and ten cents will be wrapped in jiaozi, which means that in the new year, financial resources will be rolling in and good luck will continue.
The winter solstice in the north says you want to eat jiaozi. There is also a proverb that if you don't eat jiaozi on the solstice in winter, its ears will freeze. I thought it might be because jiaozi is shaped like an ear. But in fact, this custom is to commemorate the "medical sage" Zhang Zhongjing who gave up medicine during the winter solstice.
When you eat jiaozi on the solstice in winter, you will never forget the kindness of Zhang Zhongjing, a "medical sage", in "Quhan Joule Decoction". Up to now, there is still a folk song in Luxi and Yuxian, which says, "jiaozi Bowl runs amok from winter till the sun, and nobody cares about frozen ears". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that frozen ears are mostly caused by deficiency of body yang, invasion of external cold, stagnation of yang and blood stasis caused by cold. Therefore, the methods of warming channels and dispelling cold, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis are often used in treatment.
In winter, the cold pathogen hurts the yang, and the mutton is warm, which has the function of tonifying the kidney and strengthening yang. Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica said: "Mutton warms the middle and tonifies the deficiency, tonifies the middle and tonifies the qi, stimulates the appetite and strengthens the body, and cures fatigue, consumption of cold and five strains and seven injuries." When it is cold and freezing, eating mutton can play a role in preventing diseases.
What stuffing is good for jiaozi during the Spring Festival?
Celery stuffing: It means diligence and wealth, so it is jiaozi with diligence and wealth.
Diligence: that is, diligence and diligence; Often diligence (frequency) is constantly flowing, which is called diligence. It is a blessing to endless material wealth; It is also a blessing for hard work and pragmatism.
Chive stuffing: It means long wealth, so it is called long wealth jiaozi. Long time: that is, over time, it is called long-term wealth. Long-term prayer is a kind of material wealth; This is also a blessing to eternity. I hope people will be healthy, harmonious, happy and happy for a long time.
Cabbage stuffing: It means "Baibao", so it is Baibao jiaozi. Hundred: quantifiers, that is, hundreds of meanings, are called hundred treasures. Blessing for all kinds of wealth; Or wish the newlyweds a long life together.
Mushroom stuffing: drum up wealth, which means drum up wealth in jiaozi. Drum: It just rises high and sticks out. Mushrooms are shaped like an upward arrow, or the trend of the stock market, meaning upward and full, which is called drum wealth; Or express good wishes for the younger generation to get ahead.
Sauerkraut stuffing: It means counting money, so it is called counting money jiaozi. Calculate: that is, total, liquidation. If the money is too much to count as one night, how much is it? This is called counting money. Or for the blessing of choice, choice is greater than effort, I hope relatives and friends can make a good choice and make a good choice.
Rapeseed stuffing: It means rich, so it is called rich jiaozi. Yes: there is. Anyone who has seen Zhao Benshan's sketches will forget that "talented, too talented." This famous saying is called wealth; I wish you rich and more talented.
Fish stuffing: The meaning of surplus wealth is called surplus wealth jiaozi. Yu: It is surplus. I wish you a surplus every year. This is called surplus wealth. What you pay is hard work, what you get is wealth, and what I leave behind is health.
Beef stuffing: beef dish, which means beef dish jiaozi. Cattle: that is, the meaning of cattle, the favorite of stock trading friends, every day in the bull market, cattle are called cattle wealth; I hope my friends are healthy and full of energy.
Mutton stuffing: It means foreign money, so it is called jiaozi. Ocean: that is, vast and numerous; It's wider than the sea. I wish you a fortune. This is called making a fortune.
Jujube stuffing: auspicious jiaozi. Zhao: Well, just like the god of wealth, you can control the wealth in the world. This is called luck. Traditionally, I like to wrap coins in jiaozi. I get the best luck, but it is not very safe and hygienic, so I wrap big red dates and wish my food prosperity and enthusiasm in the new year.
Wild vegetable stuffing: It means wild wealth, so it is called wild wealth jiaozi. Wild: wild, or accidental. Who doesn't like green and healthy windfall? It's called wild money.
Dish stuffing: Money is money, so it is money for jiaozi. The god of wealth arrives: that is, the god of wealth arrives, which means both receiving money and receiving money. Vegetable stuffing, namely vegetarian stuffing and vegetable stuffing, is called wealth.
Sweet stuffing: It means adding money, so it is called adding money to jiaozi. Increase wealth: that is, increase, increase. Namely candy or jiaozi, moon cakes, etc. ; It is even more homophonic with genius, and it is called adding wealth.