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Jiaozi or Jiaozi or dumpling is a traditional and popular food with
a long history in China. There is a popular saying in China: "There
is nothing more delicious than Jiaozi." so you could imagine
how much Chinese love it.
In the later years of Eastern Han Period, an official called
Zhang Zhongjing created a kind of food to help poor people keep
warm in cold winter. It was made with all kinds of fillings such
as mutton, hot pepper and some medicinal materials. Afterwards
people began to make dumplings as well.
Jiaozi is the food that will no doubt appear on tables during
Spring Festivals. Generally, people prepare it before midnight
on the last day of the passing lunar year and eat it after the
New Year's bell is sounded.
Jiaozi looks like shoe-shaped gold and silver ingots so when
people eat it during festivals they really hope it could bring
fortune and good luck to them, and this, of course, is their best
wishes. Sometimes people will add some sweets, Chinese dates and
chestnuts in fillings of some dumplings to express their wishes.
They hope those who get sweets could have a sweeter life. Those
who get dates and chestnuts could have babies early, because dates
(Zao), are homonymic with early in Chinese, so are chestnuts (Zhenzi).
Zi is homonymic with children.
Today Jiaozi has already become an important part of Chinese
cuisine. is a traditional and popular food with a long history
in China. There is a popular saying in China: "There is nothing
more delicious than Jiaozi." so you could imagine how much
Chinese love it.
In the later years of Eastern Han Period, an official called
Zhang Zhongjing created a kind of food to help poor people keep
warm in cold winter. It was made with all kinds of fillings such
as mutton, hot pepper and some medicinal materials. Afterwards
people began to make dumplings as well.
Jiaozi is the food that will no doubt appear on tables during
Spring Festivals. Generally, people prepare it before midnight
on the last day of the passing lunar year and eat it after the
New Year's bell is sounded.
Jiaozi looks like shoe-shaped gold and silver ingots so when
people eat it during festivals they really hope it could bring
fortune and good luck to them, and this, of course, is their best
wishes. Sometimes people will add some sweets, Chinese dates and
chestnuts in fillings of some dumplings to express their wishes.
They hope those who get sweets could have a sweeter life. Those
who get dates and chestnuts could have babies early, because dates
(Zao), are homonymic with early in Chinese, so are chestnuts (Zhenzi).
Zi is homonymic with children.
Today Jiaozi has already become an important part of Chinese
cuisine. |
