Eating glutinous rice balls is one of the traditional customs in the south from winter to Sunday. There is a saying that eating glutinous rice balls from winter to Sunday is one year older, which means eating glutinous rice balls from winter to Sunday is one year older. The custom of eating glutinous rice balls on the solstice in winter is especially popular in the south of the Yangtze River. Before the winter solstice, people in the south of the Yangtze River often use glutinous rice flour to make dough and wrap it with fillings such as lean meat, apples, bean paste and shredded radish to make dumplings.
For Jiangnan people, "Tangyuan" is a necessary food from winter to Sunday. Because "round" means "reunion" and "perfection", eating glutinous rice balls in winter solstice is also called "winter solstice group", which is a blessing for family reunion in the coming year. In addition, there is a custom in Jiangnan water town. The whole family eats red beans and glutinous rice on the solstice in winter.
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The origin of the custom of eating jiaozi in winter in northern Japan
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhongjing returned to his hometown and walked to the shore of the Baihe River in his hometown. He saw that many poor people were hungry and cold, and their ears were frozen. He was very upset and determined to treat them.
He told his disciples to set up a medicine shed and a cauldron in an open space in Dongguan, Nanyang, to give medicine to the poor. Zhang Zhongjing named this medicine "Quhan Joule Decoction". Its practice is to put mutton, pepper and some cold-dispelling herbs in a pot, then take them out and chop them up, make them into ear-shaped Joules with flour bags, cook them in a pot and distribute them to patients seeking medicine. Everyone has two charming ears and a bowl of soup.
After eating Quhan decoction, people feel feverish all over, their qi and blood are smooth, and their ears are warm. After some time, the patient's rotten ear healed. Later, every year, someone imitated Zhang Zhongjing's winter solstice to drive away the cold, so it has been passed down to the present.