However, some people say that jiaozi is a folk staple food and local snacks in northern China, and it is also a food for the New Year. However, in the south, dumplings and braised chicken with sesame oil are usually eaten in the winter solstice, while the custom of eating jiaozi on holidays mainly exists in the north.
? Why are northerners controlled by jiaozi? ?
? Reason 1: jiaozi symbolizes beauty.
1. During the New Year in China, people wrap jiaozi on New Year's Eve and eat it until midnight. "Making friends at a young age" means to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.
2. Because jiaozi is shaped like an "ingot", people eat jiaozi on New Year's Day, which means "the way to make money".
? Reason 2: Natural conditions are suitable.
The north is more suitable for growing wheat (the raw material of jiaozi), so jiaozi is more likely to become a food dominated by pasta for northerners.
? Reason 3: The manufacturing process is not complicated.
1, prepare the skin and stuffing.
2. Bao jiaozi
Step 3 Cook jiaozi
? Reason 4: jiaozi has appetite and cold-dispelling nutrition.
People often say that "the first oil is bad for jiaozi", which means that it is hot and sultry in dog days, which is suitable for eating jiaozi and can satisfy the appetite.
It is cold in winter in the north, and the delicious soup and stuffing in jiaozi can warm our stomachs to a great extent. When the stomach is warm, people are warm.
Not only that, jiaozi is also a "perfect match" of grains, vegetables and meat, with reasonable collocation and rich nutrition!
? Jiaozi is the "evolutionary history" of food?
There are several different views about the origin of jiaozi. One of them thinks that Jiaozi originated from the ancient "groove", which is also the etymology of the word "Jiaozi" today.
According to records, glutinous rice balls were called prison pills in the Tang Dynasty, or they were also called powder horns. The Song Dynasty was called Jiao, and Dream of China in Tokyo said that Bianjing had crystal horns and fried horns. In the Qing Dynasty, jiaozi was also called "Cooking Cake" besides "eating flat food".
In the Ming Dynasty, there were many ways to be a jiaozi. For example, baked jiaozi made of hot soup noodles and fried jiaozi; There is a kind of "jiao mi" in Song Health, written by Vae, which is a kind of fried jiaozi filled with peeled walnuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts or molasses and red bean paste.
Later, the writer Tsui Hark's "Clear Barnyard Grass Notes" mentioned that "jiaozi is cooked with water and soup". This can probably be regarded as a relatively clear description and definition of "Jiaozi".
With the passage of time, this food has been attached with various legends, some of which are quite legendary. It is said that when Nu Wa gave birth to a child, the weather was very cold, and the ears of little people made of loess easily fell off. In order to solve these problems, she thought of a way.
Nuwa pierced a small hole in the villain's ear, then tied it with a thin thread, and the other end of the thread was put in the villain's mouth to bite. Over time, people began to wrap jiaozi in memory of Nu Wa, saying that if you eat jiaozi in winter, your ears will not freeze.
? The cultural connotation of a bowl of jiaozi?
Now, jiaozi is a very common food, which can be eaten at any time of the year, not just on the first day of the New Year or a festival. From the perspective of folklore, jiaozi is delicious, and it was indeed a rare food in the past when the material was poor; Food eaten during festivals is usually endowed with beautiful meanings. Jiaozi is shaped like an ingot, and it also has the auspicious meaning of "making money into treasure". As for the reason why northerners like to eat jiaozi on holidays, some netizens once concluded that they don't have to eat jiaozi on holidays, but they like the feeling that the whole family will pack jiaozi, share delicious food together, talk and laugh, and make noise. It can be seen that jiaozi is more than just delicious food. While eating jiaozi, people are more concerned about the cultural atmosphere and deep feelings of the festival.