The Chinese love dumplings. It's not spring festival again. Dumplings must be a necessary delicacy in every family's new year's Eve dinner. Every year's new year's Eve dinner for northerners, dumplings is absolutely the home, so why do you eat dumplings? What is the symbolic meaning of dumplings?
According to the research, jiaozi originated in the Wei, Jin, southern and Northern Dynasties, and has a history of more than 1000 years. Dumplings also have different names in different dynasties. In the Tang Dynasty, dumplings were called "tangzhonggaowan"; in the Yuan Dynasty, dumplings were called "shilaojiao Er"; in the late Ming Dynasty, dumplings were called "fanjiao"; in the Qing Dynasty, dumplings were called "flat food". Xu Ke said in the Qing barnyard notes: "there is stuffing in it, or powder horn -- it's OK to cook and fry, and it's called dumpling. 'the name of dumplings is almost from this time on.
In the history of the Qing Dynasty, there is a record that 'on the first day of every new year, whether rich or poor, all people make dumplings out of white flour, which is called boiled cake. The whole country is different. In a rich and noble family, gold and silver are hidden as a small treasure. If the family can get food, they will be lucky all the year round. 'it can be seen that dumplings had become a necessary delicacy for Chinese New Year's Eve.
The last day of the lunar calendar is the new year's Eve. That night is called New Year's Eve, and that night is called Shou Sui. Of course, Xiaobian is more accustomed to the new year's Eve meal. People in the North usually have dumplings. What's the difference between the dumplings in the new year's Eve meal and the dumplings at ordinary times? What's the moral?
Why do you eat dumplings for Chinese New Year's Eve
Ancient customs
Dumplings are the food eaten after the new year's sacrifice. During the new year, we pay attention to keeping the time of the year and eating when we leave, that is to say, eating when we arrive at the children's day. This is the time of two years' exchange and new year's greeting. It has a special meaning. It takes the meaning of "making a new child" and "making a new child" as "children's Day". It has the meaning of happy reunion and good luck, indicating good luck in the new year.
Dumplings look like Yuanbao
People eat dumplings in the Spring Festival to get the sound of "treasure".
Embrace auspiciousness and happiness
Dumplings have stuffing, which is convenient for people to pack all kinds of auspicious and happy things into the stuffing, so as to express people's good expectations for the new year.
Yummy
Dumplings themselves are delicious. There is a folk saying that "it's better to lie down than to be comfortable, and it's better to be delicious than dumplings".
The symbolic meaning of eating dumplings on New Year's Eve
Dumpling is one of the traditional food in China. Also known as flat food or boiled pastry. In ancient times, there were only wontons but no dumplings. Later, wonton will be made into crescent shaped dumplings. The custom of eating dumplings in Tang Dynasty has spread to the remote areas of our country. On New Year's Eve, as soon as the sound of twelve o'clock rings, we begin to eat dumplings. Therefore, the time is exactly the midnight, which means that the new and the old alternate and the midnight comes.
What's the big meal for southerners
Southern rice usually has hot pot and fish. The hot pot is boiling, steaming, warm and hot, red and hot; the homophony of 'fish' and 'Yu' symbolizes' more auspicious', which also symbolizes the happiness of life, 'more than every year'. There are also some places in the south that pay attention to eating New Year's cakes during the Spring Festival. They are high year by year (cakes), symbolizing that the harvest is higher year by year and the realm is higher year by year.