What is the custom of eating jiaozi in snowy solar terms?

The custom of eating jiaozi in the snow season is to commemorate Zhang Zhongjing, a famous doctor, and to thank him for cooking "cold-dispelling Joule soup" with mutton, pepper and cold-dispelling herbs in winter to treat people's ear chilblains. Therefore, in some areas, there is a folk song "jiaozi bowls run amok from winter till morning, and nobody cares about your frozen ears".

Heavy snow is 2 1 of the 24 solar terms and the third solar term in winter. The arrival of heavy snow in solar terms means that the weather will get colder and colder, and the possibility of snow will greatly increase. Heavy snow means that the possibility of snowfall is greater than that of light snow, the weather is colder, and the snow often falls heavily and widely. Due to global warming, the snowfall in the south of China is small, but the north is frozen for thousands of miles.

It's getting cold when it snows. At this time, people usually go out to exercise. Of course, we have many customs in the snowy solar terms. Choosing high-calorie food can help us keep out the cold in snowy solar terms, so it is a custom to eat jiaozi in snowy solar terms.