Why is jiaozi a traditional food in China?

In fact, what China people value most is the jiaozi on New Year's Eve (also called "New Year's Eve"), which is a cultural gene passed down from generation to generation. The whole family will have a happy dinner together in jiaozi, to express their good expectations and wishes for rich financial resources, peace and good luck, happiness and health, and prosperous population in the coming year. Although jiaozi is small, its cultural connotation is deep!

Jiaozi originated in China and has a history of more than 2,600 years. The Book of Rites is one of the Confucian classics compiled by Dai Sheng in the Western Han Dynasty, and it is a monograph on various etiquette before the Qin and Han Dynasties. It says, "Rice comes second, meat comes first, so we should use it as bait and fry it.

Zhang Zhongjing said that jiaozi originated from Zhang Zhongjing's "medical sage" and "giving up medicine on the winter solstice". During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhongjing, a Nie native of Nanyang County (now Gedong Town, dengzhou city City, Henan Province), devoted himself to studying ancient medical books and collecting effective prescriptions, and wrote Treatise on Febrile Diseases, which was regarded as a classic by doctors in past dynasties and made outstanding contributions to the development of traditional Chinese medicine. Throughout his life, he took the motto of "saving the world if he advances, saving the people if he retreats, not being a good doctor, but also being a good doctor" as his motto, helping the world and saving people and caring for the people. Changsha served as the magistrate and was in charge for three years. He did not forget to practice medicine in the lobby. It has been handed down from generation to generation for more than 1700 years, and people eat Joule to the sun every winter to commemorate Teacher Zhang Zhongjing.