What festival to eat jiaozi?

Festivals for eating jiaozi include: New Year's Eve, Spring Festival, Winter Solstice, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, beginning of autumn, beginning of winter and Fuxi.

Eating jiaozi is a unique folk tradition in China, especially in the north. During the Spring Festival, every family likes to eat jiaozi. Eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve: At the crossroads of New Year's Eve, people will feel full of strength after eating jiaozi. Then, men, women and children will set off firecrackers to help the gods drive away the spectre, and then piously hang up a new portrait of the kitchen god, offering jiaozi-based food in front of the portraits of the God of Wealth and the kitchen god to show the meaning of peace and good luck in the coming year. This is the origin of the custom of "firecrackers to say goodbye to the old year".

The origin of jiaozi

Jiaozi evolved from wonton. In its long development process, there are many names, such as "prison pill", "flat food", "dumpling bait" and "powder horn" in ancient times. It was called "Crescent Wonton" in the Three Kingdoms Period, "Wonton" in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, "Crescent Wonton" in the Tang Dynasty, "jiaozi" in the Song Dynasty and "Flat Food" in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. It was called "Jiaozi" in Qing Dynasty.

For a long time, there was no strict distinction between jiaozi and wonton. Yan Zhitui in the Northern Qi Dynasty once said, "Today's wonton is shaped like a crescent moon, and it is delicious all over the world." It proves that although it was named "Wonton" at this time, now "jiaozi" has been formed and is quite popular.

Jiaozi is said to have originated in the Eastern Han Dynasty and was first created by Zhang Zhongjing, a native of Dengzhou, Henan Province in the Eastern Han Dynasty. At that time, jiaozi was used as a medicine, and Zhang Zhongjing wrapped some cold-dispelling herbs in dough to treat diseases (mutton, pepper, etc. ) to avoid frostbite of patients' ears.