What is the custom of eating jiaozi during the Spring Festival?

It is the custom of northerners to eat jiaozi during the Spring Festival. On New Year's Eve, as soon as the clock struck, we began to eat jiaozi. Eat jiaozi just to get the meaning of "making friends when you are young". This custom began in the early Ming Dynasty, and the initial homonym of "Jiaozi" evolved into "Jiaozi". And because the white flour jiaozi is shaped like a silver ingot, the pots and pans on the table symbolize the meaning of "making a fortune in the New Year, and the ingots are rolling in".

Jiaozi on New Year's Eve is an important part of the festival, so it also stipulates many rules and established customs. These customs are designed to cater to the needs of the New Year atmosphere.

Jiaozi bag method

When wrapping jiaozi, people usually wrap Jin Ruyi, sugar, peanuts, dates and chestnuts into stuffing. Eat the best and sugar, life will be sweeter in the coming year, eat peanuts, live a long and healthy life, eat dates and chestnuts, and have a baby early. Some wrapped jiaozi and some coins sterilized with boiling water, saying that whoever ate first would make more money.

In some areas, when people eat jiaozi, they have to match some non-staple food to show their good luck. If you eat tofu, it symbolizes the happiness of the whole family; Eating persimmons symbolizes all the best; Eating three fresh vegetables symbolizes the prosperity of Sanyang. People in Taiwan Province Province eat fish balls, meatballs and seaweed, symbolizing reunion and wealth.

Jiaozi has various fillings and making methods. Even the same kind of jiaozi has different ways of eating: Daur people in Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang want to cook jiaozi with vermicelli broth. Then even the soup with jiaozi to eat; In some areas of Henan Province, jiaozi is cooked with noodles, which is called "gold thread penetrates gold ingot".