Introduction: Dumplings are really top-notch in the food world. Dumplings are eaten in almost every festival. Dumplings have also become one of the must-have foods for people during the New Year and festivals. However, the meaning of eating dumplings in each festival is different.

Today is the winter solstice for eating dumplings. Do you know the meaning and symbol of eating dumplings during the winter solstice?

What is the saying about eating dumplings during the Winter Solstice?

If you want to know, come and take a look at my introduction.

The meaning and symbol of eating dumplings during the Winter Solstice 1. Prosperous financial resources: Eating dumplings is to hope for a prosperous life and prosperous financial resources in the future. Because dumplings are shaped like ingots, and ingots have the meaning of making a fortune, eating dumplings is said to bring good luck.

The meaning of expecting to get rich.

2. Harmony and beauty: To make dumplings, you need "harmony" noodles, which also has the meaning of harmony and beauty. The dough is rolled out into a round shape, and the rolled out dumpling wrappers also indicate reunion.

3. The meaning of long-term wealth: The fillings of the dumplings eaten during the Winter Solstice are also inextricably linked to the meanings. For example, the common leek filling symbolizes long-term wealth.

4. Family reunion: The Winter Solstice is one of the 24 solar terms in China. Regional cultural differences include the custom of eating dumplings during the Winter Solstice and noodles during the Summer Solstice.

On this day, families go out together and sit together to make dumplings and chat about family affairs, which gives the dumplings a symbol of reunion.

Dumplings are one of the traditional Chinese delicacies. Dumplings are also a staple food in people's diet in the north and are also served as a winter solstice snack.

The dumplings are plump in style, rich in content, and taste fresh and tender. There are also cabbage and pork fillings, celery and beef fillings, shrimp fillings, corn and pork fillings, mutton fillings, three delicacies fillings, leek fillings, shepherd's purse fillings, etc.

The saying about eating dumplings during the Winter Solstice: During the Eastern Han Dynasty, a famous doctor named Zhang Zhongjing came out of Nanyang.

This person practices medicine not to make a fortune, but to help the world and save people.

One year, there was a drought in Luoyang. He came to Luoyang to practice medicine. He gave special treatment to poor people. Not only did he respond to their requests, but he also gave medicines prepared by himself at his own expense to patients in particularly difficult circumstances, relieving many people from their illnesses.

A young man named Li Sheng came to seek medical advice. Zhang Zhongjing checked his pulse and said that although he was malnourished, he was not seriously ill.

Li Sheng had no choice but to tell the truth, saying that he had lost his parents and was now alone, with no roof above him and no place to stand below.

He asked Zhang Zhongjing to cure his poor disease.

Since Zhang Zhongjing started practicing medicine, he has cured countless patients, but he has never treated poor people.

Because he was kind-hearted, he carefully considered Li Sheng's request and wrote a prescription. The prescription only prescribed one kind of "grass root", and told Li Sheng to dig up as much as possible, wash it, dry it, and preserve it.

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If you do this, the disease of poverty can be cured.

Li Sheng believed Zhang Zhongjing's words deeply and dug for a long time, accumulating a large amount of thatch roots.

Soon, the plague was prevalent, and Zhang Zhongjing's prescriptions contained four ounces of Mao Gen. Because at that time, doctors in Luoyang did not know that Mao Gen had the function of opening up the orifices and diuresis. No drug stores had this medicine, so they all had to get it from Li Sheng. Over time,

, Li Sheng accumulated a lot of money.

He built a house and took a wife.

The story of Zhang Zhongjing curing poor people in Luoyang is widely circulated.

Later, Zhang Zhongjing won the imperial examination and became the governor of Changsha. However, he still did not forget to study medicine and wrote famous works such as "Treatise on Febrile Diseases".

When he was a prefect, he not only sat in court to judge cases, but also sat in the prefect's hall to treat poor people.

This is where the term "sitting doctor" comes from.

In the winter of the year when Zhang Zhongjing left his post in Changsha and returned to his hometown, the wind was biting, snowflakes were falling, and the weather was extremely cold.

Due to the difficult life of the people, poor diet, and thin clothes, many people's ears were rotten by the frost.

As soon as Zhang Zhongjing arrived home, many people came to seek medical treatment.

The mules and horses picked him up, and the cars invited him. They surrounded Zhang Zhongjing all day long.

Although Zhang Zhongjing was very busy, he always thought about the poor folks whose ears were rotten by the cold.

He asked his disciples to set up a medical tent in Dongguan, Nanyang, put a big pot on it, opened it on the winter solstice, and gave medicine to the poor to treat their frostbitten ears.

The medicine he gave out was called "Quhan Jiao Er Soup". The method was to boil mutton, chili peppers and some anti-cold medicinal materials in a pot. After cooking, take out the mutton and medicine, chop them into pieces, and wrap them in dough to make ears.

The "Jiao Er" shaped "Jiao Er" is boiled in a pot. After the Jiao Er is cooked, each person who comes to beg for medicine is given a large bowl of soup and two Jiao Er.

People who ate Jiao Er and drank Qu Han Tang felt warm all over and their ears felt hot.

This was done every day, until the New Year's Eve, people's ears were healed.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, when people celebrate the New Year, they imitate Jiao Er’s appearance and make New Year’s food.

Some people call this kind of food "dumpling ears", others call it "dumplings", and some call it "bianshi".

Since then, the story of "Quhan Jiao Er Soup" has been widely circulated among the people.

Every winter solstice and New Year's Day, people eat dumplings and still remember Zhang Zhongjing's kindness in their hearts.

Therefore, there is now a saying that "eating dumplings during the Winter Solstice will keep your ears from freezing throughout the winter."