Interesting stories about the Winter Solstice: 1. Winter Solstice Dumplings In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, disasters occurred in various places and many people suffered from diseases.

There was a famous doctor in Nanyang named Zhang Ji, also known as Zhongjing. He studied medical books diligently since he was a child, learned from others' strengths, and became the founder of traditional Chinese medicine.

Zhang Zhongjing not only has excellent medical skills, but also has noble medical ethics. He treated both poor and rich seriously and saved countless lives.

When Zhang Zhongjing was an official in Changsha, he often cured diseases for the people.

One year when the local plague was prevalent, he built a big pot at the yamen gate and gave up medicine to save people. He was deeply loved by the people of Changsha.

After Zhang Zhongjing retired from Changsha and returned to his hometown, he walked to his hometown of Baihe.

On the shore, I saw many poor people suffering from hunger and cold, and their ears were rotten by the frost.

He felt very sad and determined to save them.

When Zhang Zhongjing returned home, there were so many people seeking medical treatment that he was very busy, but he always kept in mind the poor people whose ears were rotten by the cold.

He imitated the method in Changsha and asked his disciples to set up a medical shed and a large pot on an open space in Dongguan, Nanyang. They opened it on the winter solstice and gave medicine to the poor to treat their injuries.

Zhang Zhongjing's medicine is called "Quhan Jiaoer Soup". The method is to boil mutton, pepper and some cold-dispelling medicinal materials in a pot. After cooking, these things are taken out and chopped.

People call this kind of food "dumpling ears", "dumplings" or partial eclipse, and eat it on the winter solstice and the first day of the new year to commemorate the day when Zhang Zhongjing opened shed medicine and cured patients.

2. Winter Solstice Tangyuan According to legend, in ancient times there was a widow named Yu Lianxiang in Xinghua Prefecture. Her husband died young, so she farmed, picked grass, knitted bamboo hats and raised her son Yuan Yuan to study.

Yuanyuan won the first prize at the age of twenty. When he was an official, he was busy with government affairs and had no time to go home to visit his relatives, so he asked his servant Zhang Er to send half of his salary back to his mother.

However, Zhang Er was a drunkard and a gambler. He lost his silver and told lies every time to deceive Yuanyuan.

One day, the emperor asked Yuan Yuan about his family background and was moved by the integrity of his mother Lian Xiang. He ordered Yuan Yuan to build a "Chastity Workshop" for his mother.

Yuanyuan received the order and returned home, very happy.

But Lianxiang, who has not heard from her son for three years at home, thinks that her son has forgotten the love between mother and son.

He was angry and hid in the mountains.

When Yuanyuan returned to his hometown, he found out that Zhang Er was in trouble, so he went into the mountains to find his mother.

Winter had arrived at that time, and the wild fruits and vegetables on the mountain were gone. Yuanyuan used glutinous rice to make wild fruits, cooked them and stuck them on the trees on the top of the mountain for his mother to eat.

One day, Yuanyuan took the opportunity to stick the meatballs from the top of the mountain to the front of the house, trying to lure her home.

On the day of the winter solstice, when her mother came to Caicuo (cuò, people in coastal Fujian and Taiwan call home or house a house), Yuanyuan told her mother about Zhang Er's accident. Mother and son cleared up their old grudges and wept together.

The story has been passed down from generation to generation, so there is a saying of eating glutinous rice balls on the winter solstice to celebrate the "Reunion Festival".

3. Rice dumplings People in Pingtan, Fujian, call the winter solstice "Winter Festival", also called "Filial Mother Festival".

Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a mountain man who went into the mountains to cut firewood and was kidnapped by a wild beast called a bird mother.

The bird mother understands human nature and desires, forcing the mountain people to get married with her, and she becomes pregnant and gives birth to a boy.

When the mountain people went out to pick wild fruits on a bird mother, they escaped from the mountains with the little boy in their arms, returned home, and named their son Tianci.

The mountain people did not marry again and devoted themselves to raising Tianci and sending him to school.

Tianci saw that other children were picked up and dropped off by their mothers, but his father only said that his mother had gone away from a faraway place and had not returned.

In the blink of an eye, Tianci was 18 years old, a high school scholar, a high school scholar at the age of 19, and a Jinshi at the age of 20.

After being promoted to a noble title, he returned to his hometown in fine clothes. He wanted to repay his mother's love for his birth and his father's kindness in raising him. He mentioned the matter of meeting his mother to his father again. His father told him the truth and persuaded Tianci to give up the idea of ????looking for his mother.

God has given me a dilemma. As a Jinshi and an official of the court, how can I recognize a wild beast as my mother? How can I deny my mother when my mother has the feeling of giving birth to me? As the saying goes, "A dog does not think the family is poor, and a son does not think the mother is ugly."

Tianci had made up his mind to find his mother, so he asked his father how to find her. His father said that his mother loved eating wild monkey persimmons (a small wild fruit), and he only needed to pick a few baskets of monkey persimmons and scatter them from the village to his mother.

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His mother would definitely pick up monkey persimmons all the way to the village.

God sends everything he wants.

On the evening of the next day, the mother picked up monkey persimmons and arrived at the entrance of the village, where she was caught by the guards who were ambushing her here.

The bird mother recognized the mountain people, her eyes widened angrily, and she bared her teeth.

Tianci came forward and knelt down to his mother. The mother could not say anything, but she knew in her heart that this was her son. She was very happy and laughed loudly. She was old and heartbroken, and she died with great joy. This day was the winter solstice.

In order to commemorate his mother, God made small balls shaped like monkey persimmons at the winter solstice every year to offer sacrifices to his mother. Later generations followed suit and became a custom.

4. Taiwan Winter Solstice It is said in Taiwan that the winter solstice is the birthday of the cow. This is a very interesting legend.

Once upon a time there was a carpenter named Mo Dougong. The soil in the village where he lived was very fertile.

Farmers just scatter rice seeds in the fields and sit back and wait for the harvest.

So these farmers had nothing to do all day, gathering in Mo Dougong's carpenter's shop and chatting all over the place.

Mo Dougong was so noisy by them that he could not calm down to work.

So he asked his apprentice to take a bag of sawdust that had been treated by him, and sprinkle a handful into the farmer's field every morning.

These sawdust will turn into weeds as soon as they are spread in the fields.

Mo Dougong's original intention was to encourage farmers to develop a good habit of hard work and go to the fields to weed every day.

Unexpectedly, the apprentice thought it was too much trouble to spread sawdust every day, so he poured out the entire sawdust in one go.

As a result, dense weeds grew in all the fields, and the rice withered completely, causing the farmers to complain incessantly.