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Does the emperor eat jiaozi during the Spring Festival?

Spring Festival is a traditional festival in China, and eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve is also one of the traditional projects. After a hard year, people rest and adjust at the end of the year, saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, year after year. People's life is so ordinary that it has become a routine. Did the royal family in the Forbidden City also follow the folk cultural tradition of Chinese New Year and eat jiaozi on New Year's Eve? In Qing Dynasty, jiaozi, as a kind of holiday food, combined with holiday atmosphere, formed many established customs. As a model of the country, the royal family in Qing Dynasty naturally inherited the traditional folk culture. In the Qing Dynasty, emperors would eat jiaozi at weddings. According to the story of the Qing Palace, there is such a record that the Tongzhi emperor entered the bridal chamber: "... the emperor and queen sat on the bed of dragons and phoenixes, eating their children and grandchildren ... at night, the emperor and queen used longevity noodles." The "children's property" mentioned here is jiaozi. Of course, whenever we bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, jiaozi is indispensable. It not only means "paying more attention to the old", but more importantly, it means not forgetting our ancestors. Because before the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, Manchu people had the habit of eating frozen jiaozi for the New Year. On the important day of New Year's Eve, the emperors of the Qing Dynasty had to perform a series of sacrificial ceremonies before eating jiaozi. The emperor's sacrificial activities were carried out under the guidance of the eunuch in charge, and there was no absolutely strict time limit. However, the chef in the kitchen must have a very accurate understanding of the time to cook jiaozi. As soon as the emperor arrived at Zhaoren Hall, jiaozi was ready and immediately served on the table. In this regard, it is particularly important to grasp the time. The Qing palace stipulated that the emperor should put a paper gun as a guide before and after New Year's Day. According to the distance between guns, the chef can infer the whereabouts of the emperor. For example, on the fourth year of Jiaqing's New Year's Eve, Emperor Jiaqing saluted in Fengxian Hall, and when he came down the steps, the dining room began to cook jiaozi. As soon as he arrived at Zhaoren Hall, the eunuch immediately said, "Long live the grandfather to make the cake!" After Jiaqing was seated, the eunuch in charge held a pair of red carved dragon banquet boxes, which contained two bowls of "Sanyang Kaitai": one bowl contained six vegetarian jiaozi, and the other bowl contained a Qianlong Bao Tong and a Jiaqing Bao Tong. After the emperor finished eating jiaozi, the little eunuch used a porcelain dish to hold a jiaozi and a red cup in front of the small Buddhist temple in Zhaoren Hall to show his respect for the Buddha. The Qing Palace's "Food Stall" also recorded the scene of Guangxu eating meat stuffing jiaozi in the New Year; "The first day of the first month, long live the ye cooking in the spiritual practice hall. For the first time, I made thirteen cakes with pork longevity vegetable stuffing; Thirteen boiled pork and spinach stuffing. " Because there are many places to worship Buddhism and Taoism in the Qing Palace, on New Year's Day (Spring Festival), the palace pays attention to vegetarianism, and jiaozi must also be vegetarian.