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Why do you eat jiaozi during the Spring Festival?

On New Year's Day, people eat jiaozi. However, behind these jiaozi, do you know why you want to eat jiaozi in China during the Spring Festival?

There are three reasons:

1. The ancient people paid attention to sacrifice, and they used to eat jiaozi after sacrifice, which meant to make friends many years ago. Because jiaozi is the homonym of "jiaozi", which means blessing.

2. The shape of jiaozi is like gold, which means a good wish to get rich. It's best to eat jiaozi on New Year's Day.

3. Dumpling stuffing, people can wrap it in dough with many kinds of ingredients, resulting in many kinds of auspicious blessings.

From the article, do you know why we eat jiaozi's answer in the New Year?

The following is the translation:

People always eat jiaozi during the Spring Festival. However, behind all these jiaozi, do you know why you want to eat jiaozi during the Spring Festival?

There are three reasons:

1. Ancient people paid attention to sacrifice, and people used to eat jiaozi after sacrifice, which meant having sex at a younger age. Because jiaozi's homonym is "Jiaozi", which means blessing.

Jiaozi is shaped like an ingot, which means making a fortune. It is best to eat jiaozi during Chinese New Year to celebrate the New Year.

3. jiaozi has stuffing, so people can wrap it with dough with various ingredients to produce a variety of auspicious blessings.

Do you understand why we have to eat jiaozi, which we are used to?