On lunar New Year's Eve, people sit up and entertain throughout the night, after feasting at family reunions, When the mid-night bell rings, they eat jiaozi; it is bad luck to eat jiaozi during the daytime on the first day of the lunar year.
Jiaozi is one of the most typical Chinese traditional foods,and a must during Spring Festival in north China. Eating jiaozi has a special meaning—the transition to another year at the "Zishi"—the period between 11 pm and 1 am by partial tone. To bid farewell to the old and usher in the new, so comes the name " jiaozi."
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