In the south, people mainly eat glutinous rice balls, which means round and round. In ancient times, there was a saying: "Every family smashed rice and wrapped jiaozi, and everyone knew that it was the winter solstice of the Ming Dynasty." .

Eating glutinous rice balls has become an established custom in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. On the days from winter to Sunday, we should "make dumplings" or "powder dumplings"; These are also officially recorded in historical materials. It is called "winter solstice, glutinous rice flour is a kind of pill, named' Tangyuan'". After packing jiaozi, I'm going to worship the gods and ancestors. Later, I ate jiaozi with my family, which was called "Tian Nian". Therefore, eating jiaozi in the solstice winter has existed since ancient times.

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The origin of eating jiaozi in winter solstice and Zhang Zhongjing. Zhang Zhongjing is from Xi 'e, Nanyang. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, he served as the magistrate of Changsha, visiting the sick and taking medicine, and practicing medicine in the lobby. Later, he resolutely resigned and went back to his hometown to treat his neighbors. When he got home, it was already 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 build a medical shed and a cauldron in Dongguan, Nanyang, and give up their "charming ears" to treat frostbite on the day of winter solstice.

He cooked mutton and some herbs to dispel the cold in a pot, then took out the mutton and chopped the medicine to make ear-shaped Joules and bread. After cooking, he distributed two Joules and a big bowl of broth to everyone who came to ask for medicine. People ate "Joule" and drank "Quhan Decoction", and they were all hot, their ears were hot, and their frostbitten ears were cured.

Later generations learned to make food in the form of Joule, which is also called jiaozi or flat food. Therefore, when you eat jiaozi on the solstice in winter, you will never forget the kindness of Zhang Zhongjing, a medical sage, in "Quhan Joule Soup". There is still a folk song in Nanyang that says, "On the solstice of winter, jiaozi bowls run amok, and nobody cares if his ears freeze off.". However, in the south, we eat jiaozi. No matter what we eat, the winter solstice is actually the original meaning of returning to our parents, families and winter solstice.