The winter solstice, also known as the Winter Festival, is an important solar term among the 24 solar terms, and it is also a traditional ancestor worship festival in China. The solstice in winter is considered as a big holiday in winter. In ancient times, there was a saying that the winter solstice was as big as a year. In our country, it is a custom to eat jiaozi every winter solstice. In fact, jiaozi is eaten in winter solstice to commemorate the custom of "medical sage" Zhang Zhongjing to feed people and make "Joule soup for removing cold" in winter solstice.
On the day of winter solstice, Zhang Zhongjing asked his disciples to set up a medical shed and a cauldron in Dongguan, Nanyang. After boiling mutton, pepper and medicine in a pot, he fished out the mutton and medicine and chopped them up, and made them into ear-shaped Joules with dough. After Joule is cooked, it is distributed to the poor who come to seek medical treatment and a big bowl of broth.
At that time, people ate Joule and drank Quhan decoction, and suddenly they felt feverish all over and their ears were burning, as if their frostbitten ears had been cured.
Brief introduction of Zhang Zhongjing
Zhang Zhongjing was born in Nieyang County, Nanyang (now Zhangzhai Village, Gedong Town, dengzhou city City, Henan Province). At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, a medical scientist, one of the three doctors of Jian 'an, was honored as a "medical sage" by later generations. Zhang Zhongjing extensively collected medical prescriptions and wrote the masterpiece Treatise on Febrile Diseases handed down from ancient times. The principle of "syndrome differentiation and treatment" established by him is the basic principle of TCM clinic and the soul of TCM.
In the aspect of prescription science, Treatise on Febrile Diseases has also made great contributions, creating many dosage forms and recording a large number of effective prescriptions. The therapeutic principle of differentiation of six meridians established by him has been highly praised by doctors in past dynasties. This is the first medical monograph in China to establish the law of syndrome differentiation and treatment from theory to practice. It is one of the most influential works in the history of Chinese medicine, and it is a necessary classic work for later scholars to study Chinese medicine, which has been widely valued by medical students and clinicians.