Eating jiaozi during the Spring Festival means good luck. Besides, jiaozi is shaped like an ingot, and wrapping jiaozi means good luck. In the north, jiaozi is an indispensable food for Chinese New Year. Every Chinese New Year, the whole family will get together to make jiaozi.
The Spring Festival Gala captures the special meaning of this custom, and uses Bao jiaozi to represent the New Year in China, giving people a cordial feeling. "Eating jiaozi (smashing)" has become a common sensational ending in a sketch, and jiaozi appears in the sketch as a prop to promote the development of the story.
Brief introduction of Spring Festival Gala
China Media Group's Spring Festival Evening, referred to as CCTV Spring Festival Evening or Spring Festival Evening, is a comprehensive literary evening held by CCTV every New Year's Eve to celebrate the New Year. Originated in 1979, officially opened in 1983, and was designated as a national project in 20 14.
The evening party covers essays, songs, songs and dances, acrobatics, magic, opera, cross talk and other art forms, bringing the audience on the spot and the audience in front of the TV into carnival and creating a festive scene of "celebrating the whole world and singing in the prosperous times". The party is broadcast live on CCTV's comprehensive channel, variety channel, Chinese international channel, national defense military channel, children's channel, Olympic channel and agricultural and rural channel at 20:00 every year on New Year's Eve.