In many important festivals, jiaozi undoubtedly plays a very important role in diet. For example, on New Year's Eve, we will eat jiaozi, jiaozi on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, jiaozi when we fall asleep, jiaozi in early autumn and jiaozi on the solstice in winter. Why do you eat jiaozi these days?

Jiaozi is a folk food with a long history and is deeply loved by people. There is a folk saying "delicious but not as good as jiaozi". During the Spring Festival, jiaozi has become an indispensable delicacy.

Eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve is a very common custom in the north. You must eat jiaozi on New Year's Eve. No matter how poor you are, you have to borrow money to help jiaozi eat. In the rural areas of Northeast China, eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve is more particular. For example, putting a few coins in a jiaozi means that whoever eats it will make a fortune next year. Besides, we need jiaozi wrapped in some white sugar, which means that the coming year will be sweet and beautiful. In short, through this jiaozi, we should include expectations for the new year.

Jiaozi cuisine not only brings joy to people, but also becomes an important part of China's food culture.

Introduction to the origin of the custom of eating jiaozi

1. Why do you want to eat jiaozi on New Year's Eve?

"Jiaozi" is homophonic with "Jiaozi", and Jiaozi named it "the meaning of Jiaozi in childhood". Although jiaozi, as the daily staple food in northern China, can be eaten at every meal, at the same time, jiaozi is the most important New Year's food, and the first day of the Lunar New Year is the "punctual time" to eat jiaozi. Jiaozi usually wraps up before 12 on New Year's Eve, and even cooks jiaozi at 1 1 in the evening. After the China New Year bell rings and firecrackers are set off, everyone wishes each other the New Year, and then the whole family sits around and eats jiaozi steaming and full of joy, which means "happy reunion" and "good luck".

China people live in Tujili, and jiaozi attaches great importance to the meaning of stuffing, such as celery stuffing, which means "diligence and progress" and "diligence and wealth"; Leek stuffing means "long time" and "long wealth"; Chinese cabbage stuffing means "a hundred years of harmony, growing old together" and "a hundred treasures"; Mushroom stuffing, meaning "bulging money", bulging wallet; Sauerkraut stuffing means "counting money" and is good at managing money.

In addition, according to the old people in the north, in the past, when we wrapped jiaozi Tujili in the New Year, we washed some coins and wrapped some jiaozi. Whoever eats jiaozi and coins will be regarded as rich and expensive in the coming year, and some people have wrapped some sweets in some jiaozi. Whoever eats jiaozi with sugar will be considered to have a sweet life in the coming year.

There are many ways to fold dumpling wrappers. The most common folding method is to put a proper amount of stuffing to fold the dumpling skin in half and seal it into a semicircle. A four-flavor "Sixi jiaozi" in jiaozi is made by kneading a large dumpling wrapper into a square shaped like "Tian", putting different fillings in each square, and then steaming it into "Sixi Steamed Dumplings". In addition, there are fish-shaped jiaozi, White Rabbit jiaozi, Sun jiaozi, Crescent jiaozi and Yuanbao jiaozi ... jiaozi can be wrapped into various shapes as long as you like.

There are restaurants serving colorful jiaozi, which are very popular. Use different colors of dumpling wrappers, such as vegetable juice and flour such as spinach and carrots, or mix different colors of whole grains into white flour.

2. Why do you eat jiaozi on the fifth day of the first month?

In addition to eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve, the fifth day of the first month is called "Breaking Five", and jiaozi is also eaten. There is a saying that there are many taboos in the days from the first day to the fifth day, so people should not "act rashly". Once the fifth day is over, the New Year's Eve dinner is basically over, so they are no longer taboo and want to eat jiaozi's congratulations.

3. Why do you eat jiaozi?

Dog days are the days with the highest temperature, humidity and sultry weather in a year, and there are "dog days" in a year. It is at this time that the people say "bitter summer". When the wheat harvest is less than one month, people in Man Cang and every family's valley take advantage of this opportunity to have a rare sumptuous food and eat white flour. Jiaozi is also a top grade that is hard to see at ordinary times, so there is a saying in old Beijing that "the head falls on the jiaozi and the face falls on the ground".