The winter solstice is an important solar term in China lunar calendar, and it is also a traditional festival. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, wise ancestors used the earth to observe the sun, and determined that the winter solstice was between 65438+February 265438+February 0-23 in the solar calendar, which was the shortest day and the longest night in the northern hemisphere.
Why do you eat jiaozi on the solstice in winter?
Zhang Zhongjing is from Gedong, Nanyang. Treatise on Febrile Diseases, written by him, is a masterpiece of doctors and is regarded as a classic by doctors in past dynasties. Zhang Zhongjing has a famous saying, if you advance, you will save the world, and if you retreat, you will save the people. Not a good thing, but also a good doctor. 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 set up a medicine shed and a cauldron in Dongguan, Nanyang, and gave up the soup for dispelling cold and charming ears to treat frostbite on the winter solstice.
He boiled mutton, pepper and some herbs to remove cold in a pot, then took out mutton and medicine, chopped them up, cooked them with bread to make ears like ears, and gave them to everyone who came to ask for medicine, two ears and a big bowl of broth. After eating pepper and drinking Quhan soup, people are warm all over, their ears are hot, and their frostbitten ears are cured.