On the winter solstice, every household eats dumplings, why do you eat dumplings on the winter solstice?Who is it commemorating?What's the implication?
Every year on the day of the winter solstice, every household in the north has to eat dumplings.
But why do you have to eat dumplings on the winter solstice?Many people don't know why, but I didn't know until today, and I'll share it with you.
It turns out that there is such a touching story behind eating dumplings, you will know it after reading it.
According to legend, Zhang Zhongjing, a medical saint in Nanyang, was an official in Changsha, and when he returned to his hometown, it was a snowy winter, and the cold wind was biting.
He saw that many villagers were wearing tattered clothes, and many people's ears were frozen, and he was very sad.
So he asked him to set up a medical shed, put mutton, chili peppers and some herbs to ward off the cold in a pot and cook them, and then take them out and chop them.
Then use the dough wrap to resemble the appearance of the ears, give everyone a big bowl of soup, two delicate ears, people eat joules, drink the cold soup, only feel warm all over, both ears are hot, frostbitten ears are cured.
Later, people learned to wrap it into food like Jiao'er, also called dumplings or flat food, so eating dumplings on the winter solstice is not forgetting the gratitude of the medical saint Zhang Zhongjing to drive away the cold and Jiao'er soup.
Friends, did you eat dumplings today?
Happy Winter Solstice to all!Good luck.