What festival to eat jiaozi?

jiaozi is usually eaten during the Spring Festival, the fifth day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month and the winter solstice. Eating jiaozi: jiaozi in the Spring Festival is a traditional holiday food with a long history in most parts of the north. Jiaozi is shaped like an ingot. Eating jiaozi during the Spring Festival means "making a fortune". There is an old saying that "jiaozi is delicious, but sleep is relaxing".

Eating jiaozi on the fifth day of the first lunar month: the fifth day is commonly known as "breaking the fifth day", and eating jiaozi on this day is said to "pinch the mouth of a villain", send the New Year and offer sacrifices to the god of wealth. Send the new year, the fifth day has passed, and the new year has passed, and the farmers have started a year of work. Sacrifice to the god of wealth, offering sacrifices to the god of wealth on this day, in order to get rich.

Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month: jiaozi is the main food, and Yuanxiao is the auxiliary food, which means that people get together when they get rich.

There are different customs during the winter solstice. In the north, there are customs of slaughtering sheep, eating jiaozi and eating wonton. In the south, there are customs of eating rice balls and long noodles during the winter solstice, while in Su Beiren, there are customs of eating fried tofu with green onions. Eating jiaozi on the winter solstice is also said to be the kindness of Zhang Zhongjing, a "medical sage", in "Quhan Jiaoer Decoction". Up to now, there is still a folk song in Nanyang, which says, "The winter solstice misbehaves jiaozi Bowl, and nobody cares if you freeze your ears.".

Folk customs:

jiaozi has become an indispensable holiday food for the Spring Festival. The reasons are as follows: First, jiaozi is shaped like an ingot. People eat jiaozi in the Spring Festival and take the sound of "making money into treasure"; Second, jiaozi has stuffing, which is convenient for people to put all kinds of auspicious things into stuffing, so as to pin people's hopes for the new year.

When wrapping jiaozi, people often wrap Jin Ruyi, sugar, peanuts, dates and chestnuts into stuffing. Those who eat Jin Ruyi and sugar will have a sweeter life in the coming year, those who eat peanuts will live a long and healthy life, and those who eat dates and chestnuts will have a baby early.

In some areas, when people eat jiaozi, they should also prepare some non-staple food to show good luck. If you eat tofu, it symbolizes the happiness of the whole family; Eating persimmon symbolizes all the best; Eat three fresh vegetables. It symbolizes that Sanyang opens Thailand. People in Taiwan Province eat fish balls, meat balls and seaweed, symbolizing reunion and getting rich.

jiaozi has a wide variety of fillings because of their different stuffing and making methods. Even if they are the same kind of dumplings, there are different ways to eat them: Daur people in Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang want to cook jiaozi in vermicelli broth. Then even the soup with jiaozi to eat; In some areas of Henan, jiaozi and noodles are cooked together, which is called "Gold thread wears gold ingots".

jiaozi, a festive delicacy, has become an important part of China's food culture while bringing people joy in the New Year.