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.. New Year's Eve dinner package jiaozi. It is one of the most important contents of folk New Year in northern China. There are many rules and conventions, all to meet the needs of the atmosphere of the New Year. ..

Jiaozi on New Year's Eve.

As the folk proverb says, "The weather is cold and mild, so we eat jiaozi in the New Year." The thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month is the time for people to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. On this day, people have to prepare many delicious foods and hold various meaningful activities from morning till night. People call this day "China New Year". The Spring Festival is the most solemn festival of the Chinese nation. In order to have a good year, the old farmers began to get busy as soon as they entered the threshold of the twelfth lunar month. Especially since the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, commonly known as "off-year", people have entered the countdown to the New Year and are busy day and night. There is a popular Chinese New Year song in Henan:

Twenty-three, altar officials;

Twenty-four, sweeping the house;

Twenty-five, grinding bean curd;

Twenty-six, cut meat;

Twenty-seven, kill pigs and chickens;

Twenty-eight, steamed jujube flowers;

Twenty-nine, go to play wine;

Thirty years old, Bao Jiaozi;

On New Year's Day, I squatted on my ass.

New Year's Eve dinner includes jiaozi. It is one of the most important contents of folk New Year in northern China. In jiaozi on the 30th, because it is an important part of festivals, many rules and established customs are stipulated. These customs are designed to cater to the needs of the New Year atmosphere. Pay attention to the stuffing in jiaozi. Jiaozi first mixed the stuffing of jiaozi. Jiaozi is full of meat and vegetables. Strictly speaking, it is different in some places, but it is more a mixture of meat and vegetables. Jiaozi in 30 years should be enough for the whole family to eat for 30 nights and the first morning. On New Year's Eve, jiaozi is usually mixed with meat and vegetables. Cut pork or mutton into small diced meat, marinate with seasoning, then chop the tender leaves of Chinese cabbage into coarse grains with a knife, squeeze out some water, and add human flesh and seasoning to mix. In the process of stuffing, the most important thing is chopping stuffing, that is, chopping Chinese cabbage with a knife. When cutting vegetables, the knife collided with the chopping board and made a powerful "bang" sound. Because of the constant change of force, this sound gives people a rhythmic change of strength and rhythm, like a particularly beautiful music, which spreads to all neighbors. People hope that the chopping sound at home is the loudest and longest in the village. Meat and vegetables are mixed with stuffing, which is homophonic "rich". The stuffing has the loudest sound and takes a long time, which means "more money takes a long time". The longer you cut vegetables, the more jiaozi you have, which symbolizes the abundance of life. Jiaozi pays attention to the shape of the New Year's Eve dinner, and jiaozi also pays attention to the shape. Most areas are used to keeping the traditional meniscus shape. When wrapping this shape, fold the dough in half and knead it along the edge of the semicircle with the thumb and forefinger of your right hand. You have to knead carefully and evenly. This is called "kneading happiness". Some farmhouses pinch the two corners of jiaozi, which has been pinched into a crescent shape, into an "ingot" shape and put it on the door curtain, symbolizing wealth everywhere and gold and silver all over the house. There are also some farmers who pinch jiaozi with grain-shaped patterns, like plump and huge wheat grains, symbolizing a bumper harvest in the new year. But more is to wrap jiaozi into several shapes, which indicates that the coming year will be rich in financial resources, delicious food in Man Cang and prosperous life. Jiaozi Jiaozi pays attention to 30-year package, not only pays attention to modeling, but also has its own rules. First of all, you can't put it anywhere. As the saying goes: "Busy, don't let Jiao Zi mess around." Daily package jiaozi, horizontal pendulum vertical pendulum, all with its meaning, 30-year-old package jiaozi is not. In Shandong and other places, curtains should be round. First, put a few jiaozi in the shape of an ingot in the middle, and then place them neatly around the ingot layer by layer. This is the folk saying that "a circle is blessed". Some people even stipulate that no matter the size of curtains, only 99 curtains can be placed on each curtain, and they should be covered with curtains. Therefore, it can only be achieved by adjusting the spacing and row spacing of the intersection, which is the so-called "endless happiness". There is also an interesting story about this custom in folklore: a long time ago, in a poor mountain village, there was a poor family who often ate the last meal without the next one. On New Year's Eve, there is no white flour and vegetables at home, and I am worried when I listen to the neighbors cutting vegetables. Helpless, I had to borrow rice noodles from relatives and friends. After mending the noodles, I made some miscellaneous vegetables, stuffed them into the stuffing, and wrapped jiaozi. Because the noodles are borrowed, the wrapped jiaozi is particularly precious. When placed, it is circled from the inside out, which is very neat and beautiful. Kitchen God, who just came back from heaven, was very happy after seeing it. There is a rich man in the same village, and his family is very rich. He is used to eating delicacies on weekdays and doesn't care about jiaozi at all. On New Year's Eve, stuffing is made of meat, eggs and other materials, wrapped into jiaozi and placed on the curtain. Jiaozi, a small material, tastes completely different after being cooked in the pot. Pork stuffing became a radish dish. And the poor family's jiaozi turned into a stuffed egg. It turns out that the Chef God is not satisfied with the attitude of the rich man's family, jiaozi. In order to punish him, he secretly switched the two jiaozi. The next day, it spread in the village. From then on, no matter how busy people are, 30-year-old jiaozi should be neatly arranged to win a "happy circle". But in some parts of Heilongjiang, jiaozi can't be put in a circle. It is said that putting jiaozi in a circle will make the days go by and die. It must be arranged horizontally so that financial resources can flow in all directions.

Jiaozi is very particular about cooking and eating.

New Year's Eve dinner not only includes jiaozi, but also jiaozi. As the saying goes: "Eat jiaozi on New Year's Eve-there are no outsiders." It shows that jiaozi is a symbol of family reunion on New Year's Eve. On this day, jiaozi will eat on New Year's Eve, which not only means family reunion, but also means renewing children. The custom of eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve has a long history, at least in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. The History of the Forbidden City in the Ming Dynasty records the custom of eating jiaozi in the New Year. "Starting from the fifth watch ... eating snacks, that is, eating flat food." After inheritance and improvement, the custom of eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve is formed, which means to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. On New Year's Eve in jiaozi, accompanied by firecrackers, jiaozi was put into a boiling pot, cooked and fished out for the gods and ancestors to eat first, and then ate jiaozi with other foods.

Jiaozi on New Year's Eve is also very particular. Use beans or sesame seeds as firewood for the fire, which means that the fire will burn more and more vigorously, and the days in the coming year will be as high as sesame blossoms. When cooking jiaozi in a pot, you can't stir it with a shovel. You should move it in one direction along the edge of the pot to form a circle, which means the same as putting jiaozi. In eastern Shandong, jiaozi is usually cooked a few times on purpose, but you can't break the taboo of breaking, breaking and rotting, just say "earning" or "rising". Because there are dishes in jiaozi, the homonym is "wealth", and jiaozi's "earning" means "making money", in order to gain luck and win a favor, so as to increase the joyful atmosphere on New Year's Eve. In some places in central Gansu, when cooking jiaozi on New Year's Eve, add a little noodles to cook and eat together, which is called "silver-wrapped gold ingots". Noodles should be thin, and jiaozi should be wrapped in the shape of an ingot, which means longevity and wealth. It is also a kind of good luck and a good hope for people.

Eating jiaozi is also a custom. The first bowl should be respected first, ancestors and immortals. Jiaozi, who provides this offering, is also particular. There is a saying that there are "three ghosts and four gods" in Hebei folk. Is to offer three bowls to the gods, three for each bowl; Provide four bowls for ancestors, each containing four jiaozi; Only the kitchen god is the least respected. Only 1 bowl of jiaozi was served, and only 1 bowl was served in the bowl. However, some people felt embarrassed and filled in a few. In some places, after jiaozi arrives at the altar, the old people at home will also read a prayer devoutly, such as:

Flat food with two sharp points,

Into the pot thousands.

Gold spoon, silver bowl end,

Respect the old people when you bring them to the table.

The gods loved it when they saw it,

Keep safe all the year round.

The second bowl of jiaozi should be served to the livestock to show their love. In the old society, cattle, horses and other large livestock were the main labor tools of farmers, and people also hoped that livestock would usher in a safe and smooth year like people. A family can only eat the third bowl. On New Year's Eve, there are many kinds of New Year's Eve, but you can't eat any of them. Only jiaozi had to eat them. Remember clearly when eating, it is best to eat even numbers, not odd numbers. Some old people at home say "eat more (wealth), eat more" and other old sayings while eating. After dinner, jiaozi's plates and bowls, and even jiaozi's pots, should be deliberately left on the curtain of jiaozi, which is called "more than one year". Even the stuffing and dough used in jiaozi should have "extra heads".