过年吃饺子的习俗和中国古代的计时法有关：中国古代把每一天分为十二个时段，每天开始是子时，相当于晚上11点到凌晨1点。
過年吃餃子的習俗和中國古代的計時法有關：中國古代把每一天分為十二個時段，每天開始是子時，相當於晚上11點到凌晨1點。
guò nián chī jiǎo zi de xí sú hé zhōng guó gǔ dài de jì shí fǎ yǒu guān ： zhōng guó gǔ dài bǎ měi yī tiān fèn wèi shí èr gè shí duàn ， měi tiān kāi shǐ shì zǐ shí ， xiāng dāng yú wǎn shang 11 diǎn dào líng chén 1 diǎn 。
The custom of eating dumplings on New Year's Eve is related to an ancient Chinese method of measuring time; in ancient China, each day was divided into twelve sections: the beginning of each day was called 'first time', which corresponds to the period from 11pm to 1am.