Why do you want to eat jiaozi during the Spring Festival? I regretted not reading a classic article.

According to the literature, the folk custom of eating jiaozi in the New Year has already appeared in the Ming Dynasty at the latest. In the Ming Dynasty, Shen Bang wrote Wan Bu Miscellaneous Notes: "On the first day of New Year's Day, on the first day of New Year's Day, make a plaque (flat) food." In the Qing Dynasty, the custom of eating jiaozi in the New Year was continued and fixed. Relevant information in the History of Qing Dynasty records: "On the first day of each year, no matter rich or poor, jiaozi is made of white bread, which is called cooking cakes, and it is the same all over the country." This shows that eating jiaozi in the Spring Festival has become a custom in the Qing Dynasty.

Jiaozi has become an indispensable food for the Spring Festival for four reasons:

First of all, according to ancient customs, jiaozi was eaten after the Spring Festival sacrifice. During the Chinese New Year, it is of special significance to keep the bread of the old year and eat it when you say goodbye, that is, when you are a child. It means "making friends at the age of two", "making friends at the age of four" and "Bao jiaozi" are homophonic, which means happy reunion and good luck, and indicates good luck in the new year.

Second, jiaozi is shaped like an ingot. People eat jiaozi in the Spring Festival to get the sound of "making money and making wealth".

Why do you want to eat jiaozi during the Spring Festival? I regretted not reading a classic article.

Third, jiaozi has stuffing, which is convenient for people to put all kinds of auspicious and happy things in the stuffing, and to place people's good expectations for the new year. 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.

Fourth, jiaozi itself is delicious, and there is a folk saying that "lying down is not as comfortable as eating in jiaozi".