How did the custom of eating dumplings on the Winter Solstice Festival come about?

Dumplings are a traditional food loved by the people of our country. It is made of flour to make a thin and soft dumpling skin, then chopped with fresh meat, cabbage, etc., mixed with condiments as the filling, wrapped and boiled in a pot until the dumplings float to the surface. It is characterized by thin skin and tender filling, delicious taste, unique shape, and never gets tired of eating.

The original name of dumplings was "Jiao'er", which was first invented by Zhang Zhongjing, a medical saint in China. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, disasters were serious in various places, and many people were suffering from diseases. There is a famous doctor in Nanyang named Zhang Ji, whose name is Zhongjing, who has studied medicine since he was a child, learned from others, and became the founder of traditional Chinese medicine.

Zhang Zhongjing not only has excellent medical skills, can cure any incurable diseases, but also has noble medical ethics, whether poor or rich, he has seriously treated and saved countless lives.

On the winter solstice, go to the dumpling restaurant to eat dumplings.

The meaning of eating dumplings on the winter solstice is: rolling wealth, harmony and beauty, the meaning of long-term wealth, family reunion and so on. The origin of dumplings is the Eastern Han Dynasty medical saint Zhang Zhongjing, seeing that many people in his hometown are frozen due to poverty, so on the day of the winter solstice, he cooked out the cold Jiao Er soup, so now there is a saying that the winter solstice will freeze the ears if you don't eat dumplings.

Every year on the day of the winter solstice of the lunar calendar, dumplings are an indispensable holiday meal for rich and poor. Yan Yun: "On the first day of October, the winter solstice arrives, and every household eats dumplings." This custom is left by commemorating the "medical saint" Zhang Zhongjing on the winter solstice.

Eating dumplings on the winter solstice is not forgetting the grace of the "medical saint" Zhang Zhongjing's "dispelling cold and delicate ear soup". To this day, there is still a folk song in Nanyang that "the winter solstice does not serve dumpling bowls, and no one cares if you freeze your ears".

The winter solstice is coming, and the mutton is pretty.

In our Sichuan region, it is popular to drink mutton soup on the winter solstice, and the winter dumplings in Sichuan can not be eaten, but mutton soup is indispensable. Chengdu has no shortage of delicious mouths since ancient times, the winter solstice is the season of autumn harvest and winter storage, as long as the citizens have a little leisure, they will be supplemented. In the old Chengdu, the mutton soup is mostly eaten by the poor people, only sold around the winter solstice, the Ming and Qing dynasties have formed a custom, it is a unique scenery of the winter solstice in the old Chengdu.

As the saying goes, "When the winter solstice arrives, the mutton is pretty". On this day, eating a steaming meal of mutton is the choice of many families in Sichuan. "Make up for the winter solstice, fight tigers in the coming year", Sichuan and Shandong will drink mutton soup, and have the habit of eating mutton and various nourishing foods, in order to have a good health and good omen in the coming year.

Every year on the eve of the winter solstice, the mutton soup shops in the streets and alleys of Chengdu are already in full swing, and they are even more crowded on the day of the winter solstice. At home, a large pot of mutton soup will be stewed, and the family will sit around the fire and eat meat and drink the soup.

The original name of the dumpling"Delicate ears", it is said to have been first invented by Zhang Zhongjing, a medical saint in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

According to legend, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhongjing, the "medical saint", served as the Taishou of Changsha, and then resigned and returned to his hometown. Just in time for the day of the winter solstice, he saw that the common people of Nanyang were hungry and cold, and their ears were frostbitten. Zhang Zhongjing summed up the clinical practice of the Han Dynasty for more than 300 years, so he built a local medical hut, set up a large pot, boiled mutton, chili peppers and herbs to dispel cold and heat, wrapped the dough into the shape of an ear, and gave it to the poor with soup and food after cooking.

The people of Huiyuan ate from the winter solstice to Chinese New Year's Eve, resisted typhoid fever, and cured frozen ears.

Since then, the villagers and descendants have imitated the production and called it "dumpling ears".