饺子英语介绍

Story of Jiaozi（Dumplings） Jiaozi, or dumplings with meat and vegetable fillings, is very popular during the Spring Festival and other festivals. It tops the list of delicacies of people in north China, where people eat jiaozi at midnight on New Year's Eve and for breakfast on New Year's Day. History The history of jiaozi dates back to ancient times. But the custom of making jiaozi a special dish during the Spring Festival, or the Chinese Lunar New Year, started in the Ming Dynasty, some 500 to 600 years ago. The reason is simple. The appearance of jiaozi looks like the V-shape （some say half-moon shaped）gold or silver ingot used as money in ancient China. As the Spring Festival marks the start of a new year, people choose to eat jiaozi to connote their wishes for good fortune in the new year. Although time has changed, the tradition has remained. But today, jiaozi is considered more as a sign of blessing than of fortune. Culture As China is a country with a vast territory, there are great differences in various regions in ways of making jiaozi or even serving it. For example, dumpling wrappers are made with a rolling stick in most areas of Beijing and Hebei Province, whereas in some parts of Shaanxi Province and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, wrappers are hand-pressed. There is no set rule as to what makes dumpling fillings. They can be anything from vegetables, meat to seafood. Whatever the fillings, the wrapping skill needs to be exquisite to make jiaozi look attractive. Ways of serving jiaozi also vary from place to place. Generally, dumplings are boiled in clear water and served dry with vinegar, soy sauce, garlic or pepper oil if one likes them hot. In some parts of the Northeast China, however, dumplings are boiled in broth together with vermicelli made from bean starch, and served together.People in Henan and Shanxi provinces like to boil jiaozi with noodles and serve them together. They name the serving " golden threads piercing through silver ingots,"or " silver threads stringing together calabash". Golden or silver threads mean noodles while silver ingots and calabash refer to jiaozi. There are also places where people boil and serve jiaozi with sheet jell made from bean or potato starch, or with sweet dumplings, special for the Lantern Festival on the 15th of the first lunar month. The Process of Making Jiaozi Many families in China usually prepare enough jiaozi to last several days during the Spring Festival time. To make jiaozi, first of all, you should chop the meat into tiny pieces and mash them, then add salt, sesame oil, soy sauce, ginger, scallions, Chinese cabbage and MSG if you like. Mix thoroughly the ingredients and meat filling, add two spoonful of water if necessary. In a big bowl, add water to flour gradually. （caution: not too much at a time！） Mix and knead by hand to soft dough, then cover it with towel and put it aside for about an hour. Scatter some dry flour on the board, knead and roll it into a sausage-like dough about 5 centimeters in diameter, then chop it into small pieces. Press each piece with your hand and get a pancake. Finally, you should hold the pancake with your palm and put the filling in the center and wrap it into half-moon shaped and seal the edges. The next step is to eat. Put the dumplings into boiling water, when it is well cooked, it is ready to be served. However, before eating, you need to prepare some small dishes to contain the mixture of soy sauce, vinegar, and sesame oil or pepper oil （ to suit your own taste！） Today Probably the fun of eating jiaozi lies not only in the delicacy itself but also in the process of preparing for it: everybody, the host and guests alike, would roll up his sleeves and wrap the pancake to cover the fillings. What fun！As time advances, the ancient food has been continuously updated, not only in processing skills, but also in varieties, wrappers and fillings, tastes and appearances. Frozen jiaozi processed on production lines, in particular, is taking a big share of the fast food market. There have been so many varieties of jiaozi that it is no longer a rare scene for restaurants to offer a whole jiaozi banquet, serving up several dozen kinds of dumplings.

Dumplings are cooked balls of dough. They are based on flour, potatoes or bread, and may include meat, fish, vegetables, or sweets. They may be cooked by boiling, steaming, simmering, frying, or baking. They may have a filling, or there may be other ingredients mixed into the dough. Dumplings may be sweet or spicy. They can be eaten by themselves, in soups or stews, with gravy, or in any other way. While some dumplings resemble solid water boiled doughs, such as gnocchi, others such as wontons resemble meatballs with a thin dough covering. a common Chinese dumpling which generally consists of minced meat and finely chopped vegetables wrapped into a thin and elastic piece of dough skin. Popular meat fillings include ground pork, ground beef, ground chicken, shrimp, and even fish. Popular mixtures include pork with Chinese cabbage, pork with garlic chives, pork and shrimp with vegetables, pork with spring onion, garlic chives with scrambled eggs. Filling mixtures vary depending on personal tastes and region. Jiaozi are usually boiled or steamed and remains to be a traditional dish eaten on Chinese New Year's Eve, the 5th day of Chinese New Year, and special family reunions. Extended family members may gather together to make dumplings, and it is also eaten for farewell to family members or friends. In Northern China, dumplings are commonly eaten with a dipping sauce made of vinegar and chilli oil or paste, and occasionally with some soy sauce added in.If dumplings are laid flatly on a pan, first steamed with lid on with a thin layer of water, then fried in oil after the water has been evaporated, they are called guotie 锅贴 (gyoza in Japanese) or potstickers as the Maillard reaction occurring on the bottom of the dumpling make the skin crispy and brown.Dumplings are traditionally eaten on New Year's Eve.，eaten traditionally in northern China because the preparation is similar to packaging luck inside the dumpling, which is later eaten to

Dumplings originate from ancient corners. Dumpling, originally known as Jiaoer, was first invented by Zhang Zhongjing, a doctor of Nanyang people in China.

饺子源于古代的角子。饺子原名“娇耳”，是我国南阳人医圣张仲景首先发明的。

It has a history of more than 1,800 years. Dumplings, also known as dumplings, are the staple food and local snacks of the Chinese people.

距今已有一千八百多年的历史了。是深受中国人民喜爱的传统特色食品

They are also the food of the New Year's Day. There is a folk song called "Big Cold Little Cold, eat dumplings for the New Year." Dumplings are usually boiled with dough wrapped stuffing.

又称水饺，是中国民间的主食和地方小吃，也是年节食品。有一句民谣叫“大寒小寒，吃饺子过年。”饺子多用面皮包馅水煮而成。

饺子起源于东汉时期，为医圣张仲景首创。饺子多以冷水和面粉为剂，将面和水和在一起，揉成大的粗面团，盖上拯干的湿纱布或毛巾，放置(饧)一小时左右，刀切或手摘成若干个小面团，先后揉搓成直径约3公分左右的圆长条，刀切或手摘成一个个小面剂子。

将这些小面剂子用小擀面杖擀成中间略厚周边较薄的饺子皮，包裹馅心，捏成月牙形或角形，先将冷水烧开，包成后下锅并用漏勺或者汤勺(反过来凸面朝上)顺着锅沿逆时针或顺时针划圆弧状以防饺子粘连，煮至饺子浮上水面即可(如为肉馅可在沸腾时添少许冷水再烧，反复两三次)。

饺皮也可用烫面、油酥面或米粉制作；馅心可荤可素、可甜可咸；成熟方法也可用蒸、烙、煎、炸等、荤馅有三鲜、虾仁、蟹黄、海参、鱼肉、鸡肉、猪肉、牛肉、羊肉等，素馅双分为什锦素馅、普通素馅之类。

饺子的特点是皮薄馅嫩，味道鲜美，形状独特，百食不厌。饺子的制作原料营养素种类齐全，蒸煮法保证营养较少流失，并且符合中国色香味饮食文化的内涵。

饺子是一种历史悠久的民间吃食，深受老百姓的欢迎，民间有“好吃不过饺子”的俗语。每逢新春佳节，饺子更成为一种应时不可缺少的佳肴。

饺子源于中国古代的角子，原名“娇耳”，汉族传统面食，距今已有一千八百多年的历史了。由东汉南阳涅阳（今河南南阳邓州）人张仲景发明 ，最初作为药用。

Jiaozi originated from jiaozi in ancient China. Its original name is Jiaoer. It is a traditional pasta of Han nationality. It has a history of more than 1800 years.

It was invented by Zhang Zhongjing, a native of Nanyang nieyang (now Dengzhou, Nanyang, Henan Province) in the Eastern Han Dynasty. It was originally used as medicine.

饺子又称水饺，深受中国人民喜爱，是中国北方民间的主食和地方小吃，也是年节食品。有一句民谚叫“大寒小寒，吃饺子过年。”饺子多用面皮包馅水煮而成。

Dumplings, also known as dumplings, are deeply loved by the Chinese people. They are the staple food and local snacks in northern China.

They are also festival food. There is a folk saying that "big cold, small cold, eat dumplings for the new year." Dumplings are usually made of dough and water.

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芹菜馅—即勤财之意故为勤财饺

勤：即勤奋、勤劳；经常，勤密（频繁）源源不断，谓之勤财。是对源源不断的物质财富的祈福；更是对勤劳、务实的祝福。

韭菜馅—即久财之意故为久财饺

久：即时间长、久远，谓之久财。是祈福长久的物质财富；更是对天长地久的祈福，但愿人长久——健康、和睦、快乐、幸福。