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Why do you want to eat jiaozi during the Spring Festival?

Eating jiaozi's idea of urging the younger generation to have sex, the word "Zi" means "childhood time", which is homophonic with "jiaozi" and means "reunion and happiness" and "good luck".

First of all, jiaozi is shaped like an ingot. People are eating the sound of "making friends to encourage the birth of treasures".

Secondly, jiaozi has stuffing, which is convenient for people to put all kinds of auspicious and happy things in the stuffing and place people's good expectations for the new year.

Jiaozi is a traditional special food deeply loved by the Han people in China, and jiaozi is a kind of semi-circular or semi-moon and angular stuffed pasta. According to legend, it was first invented by China medical sage Zhang Zhongjing. Jiaozi is also a holiday food in the north, and many places in northern China have the habit of eating jiaozi from winter to Sunday. Jiaozi is also a common food in southern China.

The historical evolution of jiaozi has gone through a long and gradual process. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Zilie gave a good explanation: "jiaozi's ear, that is, Duan Shi, Tang Wan, or Fenjiao, is pronounced Jiao by northerners, and it is fake jiaozi because it is called jiaozi as bait." Jiaozi has many names for its fillings, and it can be divided into fried dumplings, fried dumplings, steamed dumplings, dumplings and so on because of its different ripening methods.