What does jiaozi mean?

Going out to eat jiaozi means looking forward to reunion, which means peaceful reunion, and also means coming back as soon as possible.

There is a tradition of eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve, but the custom of eating jiaozi varies from place to place. Some places eat jiaozi on New Year's Eve, and some places eat jiaozi on the first day. Eating jiaozi is a unique way for people to express their wishes when they bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Jiaozi's homonym "jiaozi" is the moment when the New Year and the Old Year intersect. Eating jiaozi during the Spring Festival means good luck. Besides, jiaozi is shaped like an ingot, and wrapping jiaozi means good luck.

Jiaozi is a traditional special food deeply loved by the Han people in China, and jiaozi is a kind of semi-circular or half-moon angular pasta with stuffing. 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.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia entry? Chinese dumpling