On the winter solstice, although the sun is low and the day is short, the temperature of the winter solstice is not the lowest in meteorology. In fact, because there is still "accumulated heat" on the surface, it is usually not very cold before the winter solstice, and the real cold is after the winter solstice. The following are the legends of the winter solstice for your reference. Welcome to browse!
Legend of the Winter Solstice 1 Legend of the Winter Solstice 1
In Jiangnan water town, there is a custom that the whole family get together on the night of the winter solstice to eat red beans and glutinous rice. According to legend, there was a man named * * * Gong's. His son was incompetent and evil, and he died on the winter solstice. After his death, he became an epidemic ghost and continued to harm the people. However, this epidemic ghost is most afraid of red beans, so people cook red bean rice on the winter solstice to ward off the epidemic ghost and prevent and cure diseases.
Legend of the Winter Solstice II
In the past, there was a saying in old Beijing that "winter solstice wonton and summer solstice noodles". According to legend, during the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu in the north often harassed the frontier, and the people were restless. At that time, there were two leaders of Hun tribe and Tun tribe, which were very cruel. The people hated it, so they wrapped it into a corner with meat stuffing and called it "wonton" with the sound of "muddy" and "tun". Hate to eat, and seek to calm the war and live a peaceful life. Because wonton was originally made on the winter solstice, every family eats wonton on the winter solstice.
Legend of the Winter Solstice Story III
The custom of eating dog meat on the winter solstice is said to have started in the Han Dynasty. According to legend, Liu Bang, Emperor Gaozu, ate dog meat cooked by Fan Kuai on the winter solstice, which made him feel particularly delicious and full of praise. Since then, the custom of eating dog meat on the winter solstice has been formed among the people. Nowadays, people eat dog meat, mutton and various nourishing foods on the winter solstice in order to have a good omen for the coming year.
Legend of the Winter Solstice Story 2 The story of eating jiaozi on the Winter Solstice.
Every year, on the Winter Solstice of the Lunar New Year, jiaozi is an indispensable holiday meal, regardless of the rich or the poor. As the saying goes, on October 1st, when the winter solstice comes, every family eats dumplings. This custom was left in memory of Zhang Zhongjing, a medical saint, who gave up medicine on the winter solstice.
Zhang Zhongjing is a native of Gedong, Nanyang. He wrote Treatise on Febrile Diseases, which is a masterpiece of doctors and is regarded as a classic by doctors of all ages. Zhang Zhongjing has a famous saying: advance to save the world, retreat to save the people; You can't be a good doctor, but also a good doctor. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, he served as the prefect of Changsha, visiting the sick and applying medicine, and practicing medicine in the lobby. Later, he resolutely resigned and returned to his hometown to treat his neighbors. When he returned home, it was winter. He saw that the villagers on both sides of the Baihe River were sallow and emaciated, hungry and cold, and many people's ears were frozen. He asked his disciples to set up a medical shed and a cauldron in Dongguan, Nanyang, and to give up the soup of dispelling cold and charming ears to cure chilblain on the winter solstice.
He boiled mutton, peppers and some herbs for dispelling cold in a pot, then fished out the mutton and medicines, chopped them, made them into ear-like ears with bread, cooked them, and distributed them to everyone who came to ask for medicine, two ears and a big bowl of broth. People ate jiao 'er and drank Quhan decoction, and they were warm all over, and their ears were hot, and their frostbitten ears were cured. Later generations learned to look like Jiao Er and wrapped it into food, also called jiaozi or flat food.
Eating jiaozi on the winter solstice is the kindness of Zhang Zhongjing, a medical saint, to dispel cold and charming ear soup. Up to now, Nanyang still has jiaozi Bowl with improper winter solstice, which freezes the folk songs that nobody cares about.
What are the entertainment customs of ancient winter solstice?
Winter solstice suspended soil charcoal
Our ancestors were very good at observing natural phenomena, and the custom of "hanging soil and charcoal" on the winter solstice was very interesting. Three days before the winter solstice, people hung soil and charcoal on both ends of the wooden poles of the balance, so that the weight of both sides was just balanced. On the winter solstice, when the sun is shining, the charcoal will be heavy, while on the summer solstice, when the yin is shining, the soil will be heavy. Obviously, the principle of this simple little experiment lies in whether the objects on both sides absorb water or not.
Law of burning ash
"Jia-ash-dominated law" is another interesting experiment, which involves the knowledge of ancient Chinese music. The ancients used the ashes of Jia to predict the climate, based on the "Twelve Laws" in Chinese music theory.
People burn reed films into ashes, put them in legal tubes and in secret rooms to occupy the climate. When a certain season and climate arrives, the ashes in a certain legal tube fly out, indicating that season and climate has arrived. According to the experience of the ancients, on the winter solstice, the ash should fly out of the bell-ringing pipe, which is the way people judge the arrival of the festival.
The so-called twelve laws are to divide an octave into twelve semitones. If we assume that the yellow bell is the "C" sound on the piano now, the other laws will rise by a semitone in turn, namely, the yellow bell, the big bell, the too cluster, the bell clamp, the gu wash, the middle bell, the fan bin, the Lin bell, the south bell, the yi ze, the non-shooting and the bell response.
Jiujiu cold-eliminating song
Jiujiu Song is a kind of seasonal folk ballad. In the old days, when winter came, children often sang such a ballad: "Don't shoot in 1929, walk on the ice in 3949, look at willows along the river in 5969, open geese in 79, add 19 in 99, and plow cows everywhere." This is the most popular Jiujiu Song, also known as Jiujiu Ci, which is the full name of "Jiujiu Anti-cold Song".
According to the traditional calendar of our country, every nine days is a period from the day after the winter solstice, which is the "nine" opposite to the "volt" in summer. There are nine periods for "counting nine" * * *, the first nine days are called September 19, followed by September 29, March 39, ..., until after September 9, it is the season when the weather is getting warmer and the earth will be spring.
The 99-year-old songs have been circulated in most parts of the country, especially in the north, where the winter is very cold. Therefore, the 99-year-old songs are not only in be worthy of the name, but also have practical significance. Outside the north, because the climate is cold and warm, people's creative focus is different, so there are some differences in the 99-year-old songs.
Nine-nine cold elimination map
During the winter solstice, there is a custom of posting a "map of eliminating cold in the ninth year", which records the sunny weather after the winter solstice, so that people can predict the prosperity and shortage in the coming year.
There are many forms of cooling map. The simple way is to draw a grid with nine vertical and horizontal columns, and then draw a money shape in the middle of each grid. * * * You will get 81 yuan, and you will get one yuan every day. The painting method is "overcast and sunny, left wind and right rain, in the snow". Folk songs also say: "In cloudy and sunny snow, you should distinguish between left wind and right rain, and the grass will be green in spring." Or choose nine words with nine pictures to form a sentence and put them in a grid, which is also a daily stroke. The commonly used nine-picture couplet is "weeping willows before the court (pavilion) and cherishing the spring breeze".
In addition to the above two kinds, there is also an "elegant figure", which is to paint a branch of plum, and the petals of plum are eighty-one, and one petal is dyed every day. After all dyeing, it will be 99, and spring is coming. What's more charming is that women wear makeup and dye plums. From plum to apricot, from winter to spring, the change of seasons is connected with the rouge of jiaren Xiaozhuang, which is really amazing.
Although the custom of drawing pictures to eliminate cold is simple, it has a different charm if it is brewed with ingenuity, and people often place all kinds of feelings in it.
The implication of eating jiaozi on the winter solstice.
Moral one: The winter solstice misbehaves the jiaozi bowl, and nobody cares if you freeze your ears.
Proverbs say: On October 1st, when the winter solstice comes, every family eats dumplings. This custom is said to have been left in memory of Zhang Zhongjing, a medical saint, who gave up medicine on the winter solstice. Therefore, in the north of China, on the day of the winter solstice of the lunar calendar, jiaozi becomes an essential holiday meal, regardless of the rich or the poor.
Moral 2: When the winter solstice comes, eat jiaozi and be round and round.
In some places, on the day of the winter solstice, the family will be busy, preparing all kinds of dumpling wrappers and stuffing, and then the family will sit together to make jiaozi, eat jiaozi and have a reunion for the winter solstice. In addition to eating jiaozi in the north, there is also the custom of eating glutinous rice balls in the south, which means that the round is full and round.
Legend of the Winter Solstice 3 jiaozi is a custom of the Han nationality, which is popular in most parts of the country and refers to the custom of eating dumplings or wonton on the Winter Solstice. Pan Rongbi (Qing Dynasty) Ji Sheng at the age of Emperor Jing: "Tomorrow is a winter night, and besides worshipping ancestors' soup and rice, we offer them with fine meat stuffing. The saying' Winter Solstice Wonton and Summer Solstice Noodles' is also a legacy.
One of the legends: Nu Wa made man.
There is a legend in Huaichuan area. In ancient times, Nu Wa scooped up earth and made people in Shennong Mountain. In winter, it was freezing, and the clay figurines' ears squeezed by Nu Wa were frozen off one after another, so Nu Wa was very anxious. So Nu Wa sewed the clay figurine's ears one by one with a needle and thread. One day, Nu Wa sewed a clay figurine's ear, let the clay figurine bite the remaining thread with her mouth, and turned to look for scissors. When she returned to the clay figurine with scissors, a good idea was born in her mind instantly.
She tied the clay figurine's ear with a thread at one end and let the clay figurine bite tightly in her mouth at the other end, so that the clay figurine's ear would not be frozen off. Later, people were afraid of freezing their ears on the winter solstice, so they tied their ears with a thread and bit them in their mouths. After a long time, I turned biting thread into eating jiaozi, because jiaozi is very similar to the shape of an ear. The custom of eating jiaozi on the winter solstice spread in Huaichuan area and continues to this day.
Legend 2: In memory of Bian Que, the imperial doctor.
There is also a legend that people eat jiaozi in winter, which is related to commemorating the imperial doctor Bian Que. Bian Que, formerly known as Qin Yueren, was born in Yizhou, Bohai County, Qi State (now Yizhou Town, Renqiu County, Hebei Province) in the early years of the Warring States Period. Throughout his life, he "practiced medicine with rabbit diseases and traveled all over the world", and traveled all over Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shaanxi and other places today, enthusiastically treating the masses and becoming a well-known doctor far and near. Legend has it that one winter, the wind was biting, snowflakes were falling, and the weather was particularly cold. People's ears are sore with cold, and some of them are even rotten with cold.
On this day, Bian Que came to the countryside to treat the common people. Seeing this situation, he felt uncomfortable. What should we do? He taught people to cook "Quhan Jiaoer Soup", that is, mutton, pepper and some cold-dispelling medicinal materials were boiled in a pot. After cooking, the mutton and medicine were taken out and chopped, and cooked with "Jiaoer" made of flour and leather bags. Sure enough, people ate "ear-correcting" rice and drank Quhan soup, and suddenly they were warm all over, their ears were hot, and their frozen ears soon healed. Every family is grateful to Bian Que, saying that he is a wonderful doctor who can get rid of the disease and rejuvenate. This day happens to be the winter solstice. In order to commemorate Bian Que, jiaozi will be served every winter solstice.
Legend 3: In memory of Zhang Zhongjing, the medical sage of Nanyang.
According to legend, Zhang Zhongjing, a doctor in Nanyang, was an official in Changsha. When he retired from his old age, it was a snowy winter and the wind was biting. He was very sad when he saw the villagers on both sides of the Baihe River in Nanyang, and many people's ears were frozen rotten. He asked his disciples to set up a medical shed in Guandong, Nanyang, put mutton, pepper and some cold-dispelling herbs in a pot, cooked them, fished them out and chopped them up.
Image the ear with a dough bag, then put it down in the pot and cook it, and make a kind of medicine called "Quhan Jiaoer Decoction" for the people to eat. After eating, the villagers' ears were cured. Later, on the winter solstice, people imitated and cooked, so the custom of "pinching ears" was formed. Later, people called it "jiaozi", and some called it "flat food" and "instant noodle dumplings". It was also said that people would not be frozen in jiaozi after eating the winter solstice.
Legend Story of Winter Solstice 4 Winter Solstice is a very important solar term in the China lunar calendar and a traditional festival of the Chinese nation. The winter solstice is commonly known as "Winter Festival", "Long Solstice Festival" and "Ya Nian". As early as the Spring and Autumn Period more than 2,500 years ago, China observed the sun with Tugui and determined the winter solstice, which was the earliest of the 24 solar terms, and the time was in the solar calendar every year. In most parts of northern China, there is also the custom of eating jiaozi and dumplings in the south on this day. There is a proverb: when the winter solstice comes, eat dumplings, and there are poems and film and television works about this solar term.
According to the records of the Zhou Dynasty, people used the winter solstice to worship the sky in the suburbs, and because the first month of the Zhou calendar was November in the summer calendar, the first month in the Zhou Dynasty was equal to our present November, so there was no difference between worshipping the New Year and celebrating the winter. It was not until the adoption of the summer calendar by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty that the first month and the winter solstice were separated. Therefore, it can be said that the "Winter Festival" was only celebrated after the Han Dynasty, flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and has been in existence ever since. "Although the winter solstice is not an annual festival, people are accustomed to regard it as the demarcation point of the' solar year'" ("Collection of Jingtang and Scenery"). Chen Zhisui's poem Tangyuan reflects the making of Tangyuan on the Winter Solstice Festival and people's awareness of festival. The poem says, "Every round is like a longan, and it takes time for me to love to eat. Mix the clouds and slowly scoop the silver cylinder water, and slap the snow lightly. Push into the soup pot to drive away the white duck, and get the sugar bowl to roll the yellow beads. Every winter solstice, everyone cooks. Do you know when you are one year old? " (Excerpted from Jiangnan Jingshi Poetry Draft Festival Poetry).
Qing Jia Lu even says that the winter solstice is as big as a year. This shows that the ancients attached great importance to the winter solstice. People think that the winter solstice is a natural transformation of yin and yang, and it is a blessing given by heaven. In the Han Dynasty, the winter solstice was the "winter festival", and the government held a congratulatory ceremony called "He Dong", which was a routine holiday. There is such a record in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty: "Before and after the Winter Solstice, a gentleman lived in peace, refused to listen to politics, chose auspicious days and then saved trouble." Therefore, on this day, the court will have a holiday and rest, the army will be on standby, the frontier fortress will be closed, business trips will be closed, relatives and friends will give each other food, visit each other, and have a "quiet" festival happily.
During the Tang and Song Dynasties, the winter solstice was a day to worship the ancestors. On this day, the emperor went to the suburbs to hold a ceremony to worship the heavens. On this day, the people had to worship their parents. Now there are still some places that celebrate the winter solstice.
Because of the different calendars, people have been inheriting the weekly calendar, thinking that after the winter solstice, another year will begin (there is a saying that you will be one year older after eating dumplings), which is why the winter solstice is so valued by the people, but this wrong inheritance makes the folk concept very different from the current summer calendar used in Japanese study. This wrong concept should be corrected and the correct calendar should be passed on.
Legend of the Winter Solstice Chapter 5 Winter Solstice is a very important solar term and a traditional festival in the Chinese lunar calendar. As the saying goes, the winter solstice is as big as a year. This day is the shortest day and the longest night. There is also a saying in my hometown that if it rains on the winter solstice, it will be sunny in the New Year. On the contrary, if it is sunny in the east, it will rain or snow in the New Year.
Today is the custom for every family to eat jiaozi, and so is our family. Early in the morning, my mother went to the market to buy fresh meat and some vegetables, as well as some raw materials for jiaozi. When my mother came home, she mixed the flour first, then chopped up the meat and vegetables, adjusted the dumpling stuffing, and began to roll the dumpling skin. I especially like rolling the dumpling skin, because the dough in my hand can make all kinds of small animals like plasticine. The jiaozi wrapped by my mother is particularly beautiful, and the bags are very full like gold ingots, and the ones wrapped by my father are also good, but how I wrap them is not as beautiful as those wrapped by my parents, and the appearance is particularly ugly.
At noon, jiaozi began to cook, and jiaozi cooked in the pot for a while, and the fragrance came to my face. I really want to eat one secretly! After a while, jiaozi finally came out of the pot. I couldn't wait to eat a bite like a foot-long greedy cat. It was really delicious. Mom said humorously, "If you eat jiaozi, you won't freeze your ears when it's cold." Dad said that there is another story about eating jiaozi on the winter solstice, which is to commemorate the medical sage Zhang Zhongjing. "I asked why to commemorate him? Dad told me the story of Zhang Zhongjing.
At that time, the world was in chaos, thieves were everywhere, and the smoke of war was everywhere, and people were miserable. When Zhang Zhongjing returned to his hometown, it was winter, and a large number of hungry people's ears were frozen and cracked, festering and inflamed. When Zhang Zhongjing saw that his heart was very unpleasant, he thought of a way to put fresh mutton, fiery red peppers and some medicinal materials into a cauldron and cook them carefully. Then he fished up the cooked ingredients and chopped them, ground them into mud, and made them into ears with flour bags. This is today's jiaozi. The cooked jiaozi and soup are fragrant for ten miles, and Zhang Zhongjing put them in a cauldron. A few days later, the hungry people's frozen ears were cured by eating jiaozi. This soup is also called Quhan soup. From then on, in memory of Zhang Zhongjing, there was a custom of eating jiaozi on the winter solstice. There is still a saying that "the winter solstice misbehaves the jiaozi bowl, and nobody cares if you freeze your ears."
Jiaozi is almost finished, and my father's story is finished. It dawned on me that it turned out to be like this! Today, I ate delicious jiaozi and heard a story about the famous doctor Zhang Zhongjing. This day really made me learn a lot. I am so happy!
Legend of the Winter Solstice Story 6 In Jiangnan Water Town, there is a custom that the whole family get together on the night of the Winter Solstice to eat red beans and glutinous rice. According to legend, there was a man named * * * Gong's. His son was incompetent and evil, and he died on the winter solstice. After his death, he became an epidemic ghost and continued to harm the people. However, this epidemic ghost is most afraid of red beans, so people cook red bean rice on the winter solstice.
In ancient China, the winter solstice was regarded as a big festival. There was not only the saying that the winter solstice was as big as a year, but also the custom of celebrating the winter solstice. In addition to offering sacrifices to the gods and ancestors, the northern region has the custom of slaughtering sheep, eating jiaozi and wonton on the winter solstice, while the southern region has the habit of eating rice balls and long noodles on the winter solstice.
Nanyang Winter Solstice-Improper jiaozi Bowl, No one cares if you freeze your ears.
Every year, on the Winter Solstice of the Lunar New Year, jiaozi is an indispensable holiday meal, regardless of the rich or the poor. As the saying goes, "On October 1st, when the winter solstice comes, every family eats dumplings." This custom was left in memory of Zhang Zhongjing, a "medical sage", who gave up medicine on the winter solstice.
Suzhou people celebrate the Winter Solstice —— Eating wonton and remembering beauty.
Suzhou has a tradition of "the winter solstice is as big as the year", and the "round night meal" is not only rich, but also the name of each dish has a meaning. It is said that Suzhou people still have the custom of eating wonton on the winter solstice. According to legend, at a banquet in the Spring and Autumn Period in Wuyue, the prince of Wu who was tired of eating delicacies lost his appetite, so beauty Xi Shi went into the imperial kitchen and wrapped up a dustpan-style snack for him. The king of Wu ate a big bowl in one breath and repeatedly asked, "What kind of snack is this, so delicious?" Xi Shi thought, "The muddled monarch can't get away from chaos, so he casually replied," Chaos. " In order to commemorate the wisdom and creation of Xi Shi, Suzhou people designated it as the appropriate food for the Winter Solstice Festival.
Ningxia-Eating "brains" on the winter solstice
The winter solstice of Yinchuan people is also called Ghost Festival. On the winter solstice, people drink powdered soup and eat mutton powder soup jiaozi. This day's mutton powder soup has an odd name-"brain". Generally, jiaozi will serve a bowl of noodle soup first after it is ready, and then serve a bowl to her neighbors. I can't eat jiaozi in the morning, so I buy three-pointed cakes and fennel cakes soaked in powder soup.
Fujian-Winter Solstice "Love meatball soup, hope it's not light"
"Winter solstice frost, moon light; Bai Yehong, meatball holding. " Fujian has the folk custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors with cooked "sweet balls" on the winter solstice. The night of the winter solstice is the longest, and children love to eat "meatball soup", so they can't sleep. Before dawn, they clamor for their mother to eat "meatball soup". Housewives pour "meatballs" into the pot, and add water with ginger and sugar (ginger and sugar can dispel cold and stimulate appetite) to make sweet, sweet, sticky and hot "sweet meatball soup". After offering it to the ancestors, the whole family shared it.
The story of the winter solstice
The winter solstice is the 22nd solar term of the 24 solar terms.
The winter solstice is the longest night and the shortest day in the northern hemisphere. From then on until the summer solstice of next year, the average daily increase of daylight time is more than 90 seconds. The farmer's proverb says, "After eating the winter solstice meal, a thread grows every day" and "After the winter solstice, a needle grows". "Miscellaneous Records of the Tang Dynasty" records: "In the Tang Palace, women workers beat the length of the sun shadow, and after the winter solstice, the sundial became longer and longer, which added a line of work than usual." That is to say, because the day is lengthened by one line, the work undertaken by women workers should also be increased by one line accordingly.
The winter solstice is the beginning of the winter in the northern hemisphere. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, from the winter solstice, every nine days is September 19, and it is coldest on March 9. After that, it gradually warmed up. "Winter 99 Songs" said: "Don't shoot in 1929, walk on the ice in 3949, look at willows along the river in 5969, open the river in 79, bring geese in 89, add 19 in 99, and plow cattle everywhere." The "99 Songs" are similar everywhere. The first half of Shaanxi's "99 Songs" is: "1929, copying hands behind closed doors, 3949, freezing old dogs to death".
The winter solstice is a grand folk festival in China. The ancients once treated the Spring Festival as the same. Up to now, there is still a saying of "having a small year". Lu You said in Notes on Laozi's Temple: "The day before the winter solstice in Tang Dynasty is also called New Year's Eve". "Dream of Tokyo" records that on this day, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty will lead the ministers of civil and military affairs out of the suburbs to worship their ancestors, and the scholar-officials will "give gifts to each other and raise glasses to celebrate each other", and the common people will "accumulate fake loans, so it is easier to wear new clothes and offer sacrifices to their ancestors".
Folk in Shaanxi have the custom of eating jiaozi or wonton on the winter solstice. People say, "Eat jiaozi on the winter solstice, and your ears will not be frozen.". Presumably, it is a kind of concern for people and themselves, indicating that when this winter comes, we should pay attention to adding clothes and food to avoid hunger and cold. Because of people and ghosts, there is the custom of sending cold clothes and jiaozi wonton to ghosts. In a word, it is an activity in send warm, which is not only for people, but also for ghosts, showing great mercy.
Heyang County, Shaanxi Province often eats wonton on holidays, especially on the winter solstice, and every household in the county packs and eats wonton. It is a kind of soup-linked wonton, that is, the wonton is combined with the prepared minced meat and served in bowls for everyone. Four bowls of respect to ancestors first. I also need to get it to the door, the alley, the slope and the intersection, saying it is for wandering ghosts to eat. This wonton is eaten by the living themselves, not forgetting to give it to the ancestors, but also to the unknown wandering ghosts, that is, wild ghosts, and everyone eats it in the underworld. When winter comes, everyone is warm. Heyang people attach great importance to eating wonton on the winter solstice, saying that they ate wonton that day and stayed warm all winter. If someone works in the county, a bowl will be left at home for him to eat when he comes back.
Similar customs exist in neighboring Chengcheng County. For some time, Heyang people have been nicknamed "Heyang Ghost", and there is a story to explain its origin: before Heyang people were poor, many of them went to the coal mines in Chengcheng County to sell charcoal and earn a little money. Even on such a big day as the winter solstice, you can't go home and rest. People in Chengcheng also want to send some food to the wandering ghosts on the night of the winter solstice, but it's not wonton, it's jiaozi. At that time, Chengcheng people were poor, and many men couldn't go home on the winter solstice, so the task of sending wonton to wandering ghosts was completed by women. Most women are too timid to go out to send wonton, so they pass it out from under the threshold and let you wander around to eat it yourself. At this time, a man with Heyang happened to pass by. It was dark and windy, cold and hungry, and suddenly he saw a steaming bowl of jiaozi. Why not eat it! After eating a bowl, I walked forward and saw a bowl of wonton in front of a house. Of course, I ate it again. In this way, I ate half an alley. Finally, it was discovered that the woman in the door exclaimed, "Which ghost?" The man outside the door replied, "Heyang ghost!" "
There is an idiom: "There is a fire at the city gate, which will affect the fish in the pool". But this day is different, this day is: the winter solstice on earth, Ze and wandering ghosts.
The winter solstice is the day when the winter comes, and the weather is getting colder day by day, but there are many stories of human warmth, which can be said to be from cold to warm because of people and ghosts.
As we all know, most northerners like to eat jiaozi, especially on the winter solstice of the lunar calendar. It is said that if you don't eat jiaozi, your ears will freeze. When it comes to the custom of jiaozi on the winter solstice, there is a touching story of Zhang Zhongjing, a medical sage, in Nanyang and Dengzhou.
Zhang Zhongjing was a native of Nieyang (now Gedong Town) in Dengzhou, and was then Taitai in Changsha in the Eastern Han Dynasty. One year, when he went back to his hometown to worship his ancestors, he saw many people's ears festering and running water, or they didn't have ears. He felt strange, and he didn't know it was frozen and rotten until he asked someone. It turns out that it snows in the north in winter, often overnight, and the ditch is full of river level under the heavy snow, burying half of the house and blocking the doors and windows with snow. It's freezing every day, and the river pits and ponds are completely frozen, and even the pottery water tanks in the house are broken by freezing into ice. People's hands and feet are baked, warmed and frozen all day, not to mention that ear that is staring out! From swelling and pain to unbearable heat and itching, the hand will fester with running water as soon as it is grasped, and it will rot completely after a long time.
Zhang Zhongjing, who cares about people's sufferings, is anxious in his heart. When he returns to his hometown, he teaches people to cook medicinal food, that is, he mixes mutton with traditional Chinese medicines such as white pepper, angelica, fennel and cinnamon, cooks it in a pot, takes out the mutton, adds onion, ginger, garlic and radish, and sprinkles oil, salt, pepper or paste pepper noodles, and wraps them into bumps. After cooking, he even eats the soup with bumps while it is hot.
Zhang Zhongjing was a famous doctor when he was at home. He said that people here absolutely believe that most villagers are poor and only eat two meals of porridge a day in winter. How can they afford to buy medicine to cut mutton? So when he asked the villagers about the effect again, many people shook their heads and sighed, and Zhang Zhongjing knew what everyone meant.
After stopping for two days, the villagers saw the Zhang family build a big mat shed and build a big pot stove in the courtyard, thinking that his family was going to do something happy. Only after asking about it did they know that Zhang Zhongjing decided to give up the soup and cure the villagers' frozen hands, feet and ears. Some people didn't believe it at first, but they didn't realize it was true until they saw the announcement. I saw a few sheep killed in the courtyard, and a group of people were busy rolling noodles, wrapping pimples, peeling sheep, burning fire and breaking firewood. When it was almost cooked, someone shouted in the village: "Please freeze your hands, feet and ears, and come to Zhangfu to drink soup for dispelling cold and correcting ears!" People took bowls and chopsticks and sat under the mat shed, sweating from eating. After eating for three days, the frozen part really got better.
The news spread widely, and in a few days it spread like wings to Dengzhou and the neighboring counties and towns. More and more people came to eat medicinal food, and it was impossible to do one pot after another all day. It didn't take long for it to spread all over Fiona Fang for hundreds of miles. Even people to the east of Nanyang know that some people come riding animals, some by ox carts, and some by mud, snow and ice to drink soup. Everyone calls this kind of food "rubber ears".
Seeing that people were running to Nieyang in the distance, it was inconvenient for older people and children. Zhang Zhongjing secretly thought about choosing a moderate place to give people cold-dispelling glue ear soup. Later, Zhang Zhongjing thought that it was appropriate to pass through the east of Nanyang City, close to the chariots and horses avenue and the shipping dock, with convenient transportation for people in the distance and less frost in the ice and snow. So in today's medical shrine, a shed was set up to support a large pot, and a soup to dispel cold and glue ears was set up, and the people of Li were also treated for pulse diagnosis and miscellaneous diseases. Many difficult and serious diseases have been cured, which has caused a sensation in Fiona Fang for hundreds of miles.
Zhang Zhongjing began to give alms to dispel cold and glue ear soup on the day of winter solstice, and "glue ear" is homophonic with "dumpling son", so later people, in order to commemorate him, ate it in jiaozi on the day of winter solstice every year, and it has been passed down to the present.
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