Why do northerners keep jiaozi for 30 nights?

Northerners have a famous saying: "Nothing tastes better than jiaozi". Northerners who don't eat jiaozi for 30 nights will feel that there is no atmosphere for the New Year. In the slow-paced era, it is a very interesting collective labor for a family to sit around a table and pack jiaozi. Bagging seems to be more enjoyable than eating. Especially in the Spring Festival, all family members are present and happy; The absence of any one person will make everyone feel sad and miss "one person is missing"

Not only ordinary people, but also Empress Dowager Cixi of Qing Dynasty regarded Bao jiaozi's thirty nights as an unavoidable etiquette. Ye wrote "New Year's Day at the Palace in the Late Qing Dynasty", recalling the past of the previous dynasty.

"Twelve o'clock on New Year's Eve will be over, and the Queen Mother will order everyone to come to the temple. After a long queue, all kinds of vegetarian dishes prepared in advance will be served by the chef, and everyone will start making vegetarian cakes together, so cut and cut, and the hall suddenly rings. Cut it and give it to the Empress Dowager. Empress, concubines, big princess and others mix the stuffing, and the taste is salty and light, which is decided by the Empress Dowager. At dawn, jiaozi has been wrapped. The queen mother ordered everyone to go back and change clothes and comb their hair again. After a while, people returned to the temple. The queen mother sat at the end of the case, and the queen and others stood by. Empress Dowager Cixi ordered the ladies-in-waiting to serve the cooked cakes. Empress Dowager Cixi said: This is the beginning of the new year, the new moon, a new day and a new time. We can't forget the day when we left that year. Today, we can eat a bowl of calm rice. This is the blessing of Buddha and the protection of ancestors. Say that finish, life everyone to eat. Everyone kowtowed to the Queen Mother. After eating and cooking, it will be bright. "

First, it used to be a stopgap measure for northerners to eat jiaozi.

The north is a wheat producing area. In the past, rice was rarely planted in the north, which just provided raw materials for jiaozi. In addition, jiaozi and steamed stuffed bun solved the problem of rice and vegetables, and jiaozi or steamed stuffed bun did not need to cook. In the early days of liberation, there was generally no meat in dumpling stuffing, mainly radish and cabbage, and sauerkraut and pickles in winter. There are many kinds of seaweed and oyster buns in Dalian. At that time, there were more chances to eat steamed stuffed buns than jiaozi. Jiaozi can only eat minced meat for Chinese New Year.

Twenty or thirty packs of jiaozi are easy to store.

During the Spring Festival in the north, it is often below zero. Before there was no heating, the next meal in the kitchen was frozen, because jiaozi was not afraid of freezing. Now there is a quick-frozen jiaozi. During the festival, the family was busy with the Chinese New Year, and the food was prepared for seven days, which was convenient to eat. So I wrapped jiaozi, and I wanted to eat it when I was frozen.

Thirty or thirty packs of jiaozi will bring good luck.

China people are weather-beaten and have a hard life. In the new year, they always hope for luck and happiness. One is that jiaozi is shaped like an ingot. People eat jiaozi in the Spring Festival to get the sound of "making money". The other is that jiaozi has stuffing, which is convenient for people to put all kinds of auspicious things into stuffing to pin their hopes for the new year. The better jiaozi is wrapped, the more auspicious the New Year will be. As a result, northerners began to pack sugar jiaozi and Qian jiaozi. Because I can't recognize the appearance, when eating, the family of adults and children will see who has the luck to eat the special jiaozi, and whoever eats it will have good luck.

Fourthly, jiaozi will bring joy to the family.

Eating jiaozi is not only delicious, but also a pleasant mood. It takes time to package jiaozi. At ordinary times, the whole family is very busy and only has a holiday. Everyone sat together, chatting while wrapping jiaozi, talking about everything, chatting and joking, and being together was very happy! When people eat this smooth, delicious and delicious jiaozi, they feel really good!

5. The habit of eating jiaozi is different.

There are many habits of eating jiaozi. Some people like drinking, some people like cold dishes, some people like soy sauce, vinegar, garlic paste, ginger paste and so on.

Sixth, jiaozi now.

Now the stuffing in jiaozi can be vegetarian, sweet and salty; Mature methods can also be steaming, roasting, frying, frying, etc. Meat stuffing includes three delicacies, shrimp, crab roe, sea cucumber, fish, chicken, pork, beef and mutton. Vegetarian stuffing can be divided into mixed vegetarian stuffing and ordinary vegetarian stuffing. In Dalian, the distinctive jiaozi are: Bayu jiaozi, sea cucumber jiaozi, vegetable and egg jiaozi, etc.

Seven, eat jiaozi's health problems

First, jiaozi is very skilled at boiling water. Cooked for a long time, the skin is not delicious, the time is short, and jiaozi is unfamiliar, so it is very easy to get intestinal diseases in summer.

Second, dumpling stuffing generally has a lot of fat and calories in livestock, and eating too much is harmful to the body. Jiaozi recommends vegetarian stuffing, especially for the elderly.