The origin of the custom of eating jiaozi during the Spring Festival.

The origin of the custom of eating jiaozi during the Spring Festival is as follows:

The origin of Bao jiaozi during the Spring Festival is closest to the truth: in the Eastern Han Dynasty, a famous doctor named Zhang Zhongjing cooked mutton, peppers and some herbs for dispelling cold in a pot, cut them into pieces, and made ear-shaped "Joule" from dough, named "Quhan Joule Soup".

After eating the "Quhan Jiaoer Decoction", the people were all feverish, their qi and blood were smooth, their ears became warmer, and even some patients' rotten ears were cured. Zhang Zhongjing didn't give up taking medicine until New Year's Eve. On New Year's Day, people greet the New Year and celebrate the recovery of rotten ears. They cook food for the New Year like burnt ears and eat it on the first morning. This is the origin of jiaozi during the Spring Festival.

Pay attention to eating jiaozi during the Spring Festival.

First of all, jiaozi, which doesn't eat sauerkraut stuffing during the New Year, means that jiaozi, which eats sauerkraut stuffing, will be poor in the coming year. On New Year's Eve, jiaozi, who wants to eat Chinese cabbage stuffing and radish stuffing, means that people will turn white and speak kindly after eating such jiaozi. Be sure to fold more when wrapping jiaozi. You can't pinch the edge into a bare edge, which means you can't make your life bald.

The jiaozi shape of the New Year's Eve dinner is also exquisite, and most areas are used to keeping the traditional crescent shape. When wrapping this shape, fold the dough in half and knead it along the edge of the semicircle with the thumb and forefinger of your right hand. You have to knead carefully and evenly. This is called "kneading happiness". Some farmhouses pinch the two corners of jiaozi, which has been pinched into a crescent shape, into an "ingot" shape and put it on the door curtain, symbolizing wealth everywhere and gold and silver all over the house.

There are also some farmers who pinch jiaozi with grain-shaped patterns, like plump and huge wheat grains, symbolizing a bumper harvest in the new year. But more is to wrap jiaozi into several shapes, which indicates that the coming year will be rich in financial resources, delicious food and prosperous life in Man Cang.