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Bao jiaozi's Traditional Cultural Significance

Now, on New Year's Eve every year, people in many places like to eat jiaozi. Eating jiaozi in the Spring Festival is a very important folk custom in northern China. During the New Year in China, families get together to wrap jiaozi. What's the significance of jiaozi's traditional culture? Because jiaozi looks like an ingot, people eat jiaozi in the Spring Festival, which means getting rich. At the same time, there are fillings in jiaozi, which is convenient for people to put all kinds of festive and auspicious things into the dumpling stuffing and place their good wishes for the New Year. Now people will put kumquat and sugar in jiaozi, which means it will be sweeter in the future. If you can eat peanuts, it means health and longevity, and people who eat dates mean that they will have babies early. At the same time, jiaozi also means "making friends when young", which is homophonic with "jiaozi", representing auspiciousness, happiness and reunion.