The origin of standing winter:

Chinese folk in ancient times used to take standing winter as the beginning of winter. The "seventy-two lunar calendar" said: Li, build the beginning, and also said: winter, the end is also, all things are collected. It means that all the fall crops have been harvested and tanned, collected into the warehouse, and the animals have been hidden to prepare for hibernation. It seems that winter does not only represent the arrival of winter. To be complete, winter is the beginning of winter, the collection of all things, return to avoid the cold meaning.

The word "winter" in the meaning of the Chinese language is extremely wonderful, one is that it is the same sound with the frozen, people hear the sound of winter, that is, will be associated with the biting north wind and cold frost and snow; secondly, it is no silk can be the end of the word of the body to protect themselves from the cold, which means that the activities of the world tends to rest, ready to hibernate for the winter. People can harvest or labor time should also be the end of the year, is the collection, make up for the winter and save up for the spring time.

Customs of winter

1, the northern winter solstice to eat dumplings. In the north of China, there are "winter solstice dumplings summer solstice noodles", why the winter solstice this day to eat dumplings? The original name of the dumplings "Jiao Er", rumored to be the invention of our medical saint Zhang Zhongjing, has a history of more than 1,800 years.

2, Suzhou people eat wontons on the winter solstice to remember Xi Shi due to Suzhou 2,500 years ago is the capital of the State of Wu, and the ancestor of the State of Wu is the descendant of King Tai of the Zhou Dynasty, has inherited the Zhou Dynasty Calendar to the winter solstice as the beginning of the year, so the ancient city of Suzhou still has "winter solstice is as big as the year" of the legacy of the custom.

3, Ningxia winter solstice to eat "mind" in the winter solstice this day, Yinchuan has a custom, this day to drink powder soup, eat mutton powder soup dumplings. Yinchuan people also called a special name for mutton noodle soup - "mind".

Mutton noodle soup is made of mushrooms and mutton cooked with salt, ginger, onion, garlic, chili, soy sauce and other seasonings, the soup rolled into the cut pieces of flour, soaked noodles, and then add leeks, garlic, parsley, so that a pot of colorful mutton noodle soup is ready, the aroma of the nose, mouth-watering.