Why do you eat jiaozi during the Spring Festival?

1. According to the ancient Chinese timing method, the time is from 1 1 in the evening to 1 the next morning.

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"That is, the intersection of the new year and the old year. Jiaozi means getting married at an older age, and eating jiaozi during the Spring Festival is considered a great luck. In addition, jiaozi is shaped like an ingot, wrapping jiaozi means wrapping good luck, while eating jiaozi symbolizes prosperity.

2. Folklore, which is related to Zhang Zhongjing, a famous doctor in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Related. It is said that one winter was so cold that many poor people's ears were frozen rotten. Zhang Zhongjing was very uncomfortable. From the solstice of winter, he set up a big pot and cooked a kind of "cold-dispelling and charming ear"

Soup "gives medicine to the poor to cure their injuries." The method of "Quhan Joule Soup" is to boil mutton, pepper and some cold-dispelling medicinal materials in a pot, then take them out and chop them up, wrap them in flour bags into ear-shaped Joules, and cook them in a pot for patients to eat. Joule is very useful. After people eat it, their qi and blood flow smoothly, and their frozen ears are cured. Zhang Zhongjing continued to fight pesticides until the New Year's Eve. On New Year's Eve, people appreciated Zhang Zhongjing's kindness in pesticide application, so they cooked new year's dishes like Joule and called them "jiaozi". Thus, jiaozi's way of eating was born.

As a folk food with a long history, jiaozi has been deeply loved by people since it came out. There is a folk saying "delicious but not as good as jiaozi".