Every year to the day of winter, many places will have the habit of eating dumplings, after all, winter is also, the twenty-four seasons in a very important one, winter is also almost the same as autumn, the same meaning will be substituted into another season, so in the day of winter, people will celebrate the winter this season, the South is mainly to eat some of the chickens, ducks, fish, meat and eggs. But in the northern region they generally have winter, this day to eat dumplings.

So why do northern regions have such a custom?

On the day of winter, different regions in the south and north will celebrate this custom in different forms. The northern region is supposed to be noodle-based, and even in normal times will mainly eat noodle dumplings, noodles, steamed buns, buns and so on. The day of winter eating dumplings is a traditional food culture, winter on behalf of the alternation of autumn and winter seasons, in the day of winter eating dumplings has the meaning of obedience to the will of heaven, in the north there is a saying, delicious but dumplings, dumplings encompassing everything, in the past years the living conditions are very difficult, people will also be in the winter this day to eat dumplings to improve the life of the year, and the northern region of the weather is relatively cold, and the shape of the dumplings is also more difficult, but the weather is also more cold. As the shape of the dumplings is also more like ears, many people also believe that eating dumplings on the day of winter, then in the winter time, the ears will no longer be frozen.

Besides, eating dumplings on the day of winter is to commemorate the medical saint Zhang Zhongjing, it is understood that the dumplings are Zhang Zhongjing's first creation, according to legend, the famous doctor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhongjing, who was in the old age to return to his hometown when he was on the road to see a lot of the people, due to the cold weather, will be frozen in their ears, then he will be in the roadside to support a large pot of lamb chili peppers and some of the cold-expelling medicinal herbs are placed into the pot. Inside the pot to boil, and then fished out chopped wrapped in dumpling skin inside the pot to cook dumplings, made the whole shape like an ear, so from then on, people will feel in the winter this day to eat dumplings will make the ear no longer frozen on the winter not end of the bowl of dumplings, freezing off the ear of the saying that no one cares.

So every year on the day of the first winter, everyone will also be in honor of the medical saint Zhang Zhongjing. As the so-called winter, the weather will become colder after the winter, in this day will eat some traditional food, and the north is mainly to eat dumplings, dumplings are also very many kinds, we will do some leeks, cabbage, lotus root, mushrooms and so on.