1, family reunion: Jiaozi means "making friends with young people", "Zi" means "Zi Shi", which is homophonic with "Jiao", meaning family happiness and auspiciousness, indicating good luck in the new year.

2. Get rich: jiaozi is shaped like an ingot. People eat jiaozi in the Spring Festival to get rich.

3. Blessing: jiaozi has stuffing, which is convenient for people to wrap all kinds of auspicious and happy things into stuffing and place people's good expectations for the new year.

The symbol of jiaozi is reunion.

The origin of jiaozi

Jiaozi evolved from wonton. In its long development process, there are many names, such as "prison pill", "flat food", "dumpling bait" and "powder horn" in ancient times. It was called "Crescent Wonton" in the Three Kingdoms period, "Wonton" in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, "Crescent Wonton" in the Tang Dynasty, "jiaozi" in the Song Dynasty and "Flat Food" in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties.

It was called "Jiaozi" in Qing Dynasty. Jiaozi originated in the Eastern Han Dynasty and was initiated by Zhang Zhongjing, a native of Dengzhou, Henan Province in the Eastern Han Dynasty. At that time, jiaozi was used as a medicine, and Zhang Zhongjing wrapped some cold-dispelling herbs in dough to treat diseases (mutton, pepper, etc. ) to avoid frostbite of patients' ears.