202 1 jiaozi or jiaozi in winter?

1, beginning of winter solar terms and winter solstice solar terms have the habit of eating jiaozi.

2. Eating jiaozi in solar terms is a dietary tradition in the north. Jiaozi is eaten to commemorate Zhang Zhongjing, a medical sage, and also for health preservation. Because it is very cold in the north after winter, you need to eat some hot food to help keep your body warm. Jiaozi has soup or steamed dumplings. After eating the soup, you can drink it and your body will warm up immediately. Steamed dumplings are also eaten immediately after cooking, and your body is warm.

Beginning of winter is the turn of autumn and winter, so it is called "time for making love". Jiaozi and sexual homonym. In order to seek a good omen, people have been used to eating jiaozi on this day since ancient times. With the development of the times, this custom has been preserved, and eating jiaozi in beginning of winter has become a traditional folk culture.