Why do people like to eat jiaozi during the Spring Festival? How should the dumpling stuffing be adjusted?

Northerners must eat jiaozi during the Spring Festival. In the past, ordinary people only ate jiaozi on New Year's Eve and Spring Festival. Now, on New Year's Eve, jiaozi seems to be a foil to the big fish and meat on the dining table. However, although it is a foil, it must be. In ancient times, people calculated the time according to heavenly stems and earthly branches, and crossing the sea was midnight. The posture of New Year's Eve is the beginning time of a new year. The ancients thought that eating jiaozi at this time would be "prosperous business and all the best" and bring good luck all year round.

The origin of jiaozi originated in the Han Dynasty: it was very cold in winter in the Han Dynasty, and many people's ears were frozen. Zhang Zhongjing, a famous doctor, thought of a good way to wrap herbs and mutton for dispelling cold in dough, cook them with water and give them to the poor. Because it looks like an ear, people call it "Joule" to treat frostbite. Later, people imitated Zhang Zhongjing's method of Bao jiaozi and gradually changed his name from "Joule" to "Joule". Read it again, and for fluency, it was changed to later Jiaozi.

The name of "jiaozi" was officially determined according to the book "Clear Barnyard Grass Notes" edited by modern writer Tsui Hark: "The name of cooked with water and soup is jiaozi." Before that, jiaozi had many names in ancient China: Shiluojoule in the Yuan Dynasty, Fenjiao in the late Ming Dynasty, jiaozi's "flat food" and "boiled beans" in the Qing Dynasty, and jiaozi was called "water steamed stuffed bun" in Jinan and other places in the Qing Dynasty.

Jiaozi's "communication" is homophonic, and "harmony" and "communication" have the meaning of meeting, so Jiaozi symbolizes the reunion of acacia; It is very auspicious to make friends with older people; In addition, because jiaozi is shaped like an ingot, eating jiaozi in the New Year also has the auspicious meaning of "the way to make money". Bao jiaozi is also a group production activity. The whole family went into battle together: kneading dough, rolling skin, mixing stuffing, wrapping stuffing, cooking, chatting and laughing while working, and the whole family was happy.

At present, the time, stuffing, wrapping method and so on for wrapping jiaozi and eating jiaozi are very casual. If you like to eat jiaozi, you can pack it yourself, buy frozen jiaozi and go to a dumpling restaurant. So, in the old society, what are the interesting customs and details about jiaozi and jiaozi?

1: Chop stuffing loudly

When chopping dumpling stuffing on New Year's Eve, be sure to chop it loudly, the bigger the better, so that neighbors can hear it clearly. "Having food" means "having money", which means having money and making a fortune in the coming year. [If there is a family shrine at home, you can't chop stuffing loudly, because the family should respect the shrine quietly. ]

2. Bao Li is auspicious for jiaozi.

When I was a child, jiaozi wanted to wrap a coin in the jiaozi. Whoever eats it will have good luck in the coming year. In addition, jiaozi is also packed with sugar, peanuts, dates, chestnuts and so on. Sugar means that the new year will be sweet; Peanut symbolizes longevity; Chestnuts and dates mean "premature coagulation".

3: I can't count.

Friends who have old people at home may have heard of it, but they can't find the number when they package jiaozi. This is a lucky statement, because:

1) jiaozi symbolizes gold ingot. Excluding the number of jiaozi, it means that there will be countless fortunes in the coming year, more and more every year. If you count the money you will earn in the coming year, it will not be endless, but the more you count, the less you will get.

2) Counting while eating jiaozi will make you look like a poor man. Like a miser, you will spend money while counting it, but in the end, your money will get less and less.

4. jiaozi should have surplus.

When you pack jiaozi, you have to pack more, which means it will take more than a year.

5: jiaozi needs bigger stuffing.

Jiaozi should try to make the stuffing bigger, not afraid to eat it. There is a saying that "the skin is thin and the stuffing is big", which actually means that jiaozi with big stuffing is very full after making it, which means that the whole family is full in the new year.

6: The wrapped jiaozi is wrapped by the circle.

When the wrapped jiaozi is placed on the curtain, it should not be placed at will, but arranged in a circle in order, all in the same direction, which means "round happiness". There can't be two jiaozi faces to face or back to back, because face-to-face orientation means "sworn enemies". It is easy to "quarrel" with people in the coming year; Back-to-back placement means that families will deviate from the meaning of discord in the coming year.

7. vinegar can't be called vinegar, it should be called "taboo"

In Northeast China, Shandong and other regions, vinegar can not be called vinegar, but should be called "taboo". This allusion comes from the court of the Tang Dynasty. In order to win the hearts of the people, Emperor Taizong wanted to marry a concubine for the then Prime Minister Fang. The minister's wife refused to let him do this out of jealousy. Emperor Taizong had no choice but to let the minister's wife choose between drinking poisoned wine and concubinage. I didn't expect Mrs. Fang to be a little strong-willed and would rather die than bow before the emperor. So I picked up the "poisoned wine" and gulped it down. Mrs. Fang finished drinking with tears and found that the forest was not poisoned wine, but sweet and sour vinegar. Since then, people have combined "jealousy" with "jealousy", and "jealousy" has become a metaphor of jealousy.

8. The cooked jiaozi is cracked, not broken, but "earned"

When you cook jiaozi, you will inevitably cook jiaozi, but you can't say "broken" or "broken", but you should say "earned", which means "earned". The food in dumpling stuffing is homophonic with "wealth", which means "making money" and "making a lot of money", both for good luck and good luck.

9. Ma Weidou is concerned about people eating jiaozi.

I believe many friends have seen a video of Ma Weidou, which tells the way people eat jiaozi: for example, a plate of 20 jiaozi: five for white stuttering, then five for vinegar, then five for soy sauce, and finally five for spicy oil. A plate of jiaozi has four grades and four flavors.

All the above stresses and statements are some traditional customs and good wishes that the older generation in the old days adhered to. Occasionally listening to the old people chanting the past time and old sayings can be regarded as a filial piety to the old people and a nostalgia for the old times. Now, people can eat as much jiaozi as they want and eat as comfortably as they want. Besides the four ways of eating in Ma Weidou and jiaozi, melodramatic people can eat more complicated ways as long as they like ~ What do you say?