1. Warming and nourishing.

2. Dumplings contain warming and tonic foods, which can be eaten in winter to keep out the cold. The Beginning of Winter and the Winter Solstice are both important traditional solar terms. Eating some dumplings at this time not only warms the body, but also meets the festival. Therefore, people are used to it. Dumplings are eaten at the beginning of winter and the winter solstice. Dumplings are not only eaten at the beginning of winter and the winter solstice. Many people also eat dumplings during light snow and heavy snow.

3. The meaning of eating dumplings at the beginning of winter. "If you don't serve dumpling bowls at the beginning of winter, no one will care if your ears are frozen!" In northern my country, people in some areas have the custom of eating dumplings at the beginning of winter.

4. In the Beijing-Tianjin area, people have the custom of eating dumplings at the beginning of winter. Some folklore experts believe that the beginning of winter is the turn of autumn and winter and is the "time of giving", so eating dumplings at this time has the meaning of "obedience" "God's will" means. Moreover, our country used to be a farming society. People who worked for a year took advantage of the beginning of winter to take a rest and reward their families for their hard work over the past year.

5. Although Jinan is also a northern city, "Beginning of Winter Dumplings" seems not to be taken seriously. According to the customs of old Jinan, there is no habit of eating dumplings at the beginning of winter, but "Winter Solstice Dumplings and Summer Solstice Noodles" have always been popular. After the beginning of winter in Jinan, the weather is not very cold. The real "severe winter" has to wait until the winter solstice. When the economic conditions were underdeveloped, the cold of the winter solstice would cause frostbite to many people's ears, and the dumplings are shaped like ears, so the word "winter solstice" It is a custom to eat dumplings without freezing your ears.

6. Although customs vary from place to place, the meaning of "replenishing winter" is basically the same, which is to warm the body, drive away severe cold, enhance resistance, and reduce the risk of diseases.

7. The origin of eating dumplings during the Winter Solstice. Eating dumplings during the Winter Solstice was left in memory of the "Medical Saint" Zhang Zhongjing who gave up medicine during the Winter Solstice.

8. In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, disasters were severe in various places and many people suffered from diseases. There was a famous doctor named Zhang Ji in Nanyang, also known as Zhongjing. He studied medical books diligently since he was a child, learned from many experts, and became the founder of traditional Chinese medicine. Zhang Zhongjing not only had excellent medical skills and could cure all difficult and complicated diseases at his fingertips, but also had high medical ethics. He treated both poor and rich seriously and saved countless lives.

9. When Zhang Zhongjing was an official in Changsha, he often treated 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 the bank of Baihe River in his hometown and 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.

10. 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, and then take these things out after cooking. Chop it into pieces, wrap it in dough into ear-shaped "Jiao Er", boil it in a pot and distribute it to patients begging for medicine. Each person has two charming ears and a bowl of soup. After people eat the Quhan Decoction, their whole body feels warm, their blood becomes smooth, and their ears become warm. After taking it for a period of time, the patient's rotten ears will be cured.

11. Zhang Zhongjing continued to give up medicine until New Year's Eve. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, people celebrate the New Year and the recovery of rotten ears. They make New Year's food like Jiao Er and eat it on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year. 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.