Why do old people often say, never check the quantity when you package jiaozi?

Jiaozi is a folk food with a long history, which means "making friends when you are young". There is also a folk saying that it is delicious but not as good as jiaozi, so it is an indispensable food in festivals. Jiaozi has many meanings among the people. Because jiaozi looks like an "ingot", it also means wealth, which is a lucky saying.

Since eating jiaozi is an important folk activity, there are naturally some "taboos" in it. For example, the older generation, eating jiaozi is very taboo.

When I go to jiaozi, the old people won't let me "look up the number", and the children will be very angry when they look up some jiaozi nearby. This is because not looking up the number means that there are countless "gold ingots" and there will be endless wealth in the coming year, and it will last for more than one year.

In ancient times, money was called jiaozi. Count jiaozi, like a miser. Spending money and counting it will only get less and less in the end. Jiaozi is the only person in the poor family, which makes them feel embarrassed and pinch pennies. Jiaozi, who has a Chinese New Year meal, also counts bags, which makes people look down upon and laugh. The older generation also pays great attention to face problems.

There is also a saying that "beggars" will count the number. Beggars at home can eat as much as they can. If you give him five jiaozi, he will check and ask him if he can give more. Some people seem unlucky when they eat jiaozi, because they care about how much they can eat.

In fact, the rhetoric that jiaozi is not allowed to eat in quantities is just an established rule of the older generation in that particular era, and it is also a yearning and pursuit for a better life, in order to have a good omen and a good moral. Now many people also want to check the quantity of frozen jiaozi sold in supermarkets before buying. Eating jiaozi in restaurants is sometimes sold by quantity. Perhaps this custom will gradually disappear with the development of the times.

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