Why do you eat jiaozi on the solstice in winter? Do you know who the winter solstice commemorates?
Eating jiaozi is nothing more than an artificial solar term for northerners in winter solstice. Going to jiaozi won't freeze your ears. Jiaozi is shaped like an ear, which means warmth. On this day, ancestors are not worshipped in the north, but in the south. Who doesn't remember the winter solstice? Commemorate the winter solstice.
The ancients found the change of the relative position between the earth and the sun in the process of astronomical observation and calendar making, which led to the difference of the length of day and night. In order to facilitate life and production, a year is divided into 24 solar terms. When the sun moves south to a certain position (the sun is directly on the tropic of Capricorn), the place where we live (the northern hemisphere) has the shortest day and the longest night. This moment is called the winter solstice. After that, the days become longer and the nights become shorter until the sun directly hits the Tropic of Cancer. This is the so-called summer solstice. In ancient China, the winter solstice was regarded as the first solar term in a year, while in the Han Dynasty, the winter solstice was regarded as the beginning of a new year.
Therefore, the origin of the winter solstice is not established to commemorate anyone, but a scientific and accurate astronomical mark.
As for who is attached, every period can have its sustenance. In fact, it does not affect the operation of the earth.
Zhang Zhongjing
This is the custom of northerners. Southerners are completely different. On this day, southerners mainly get together for a meal, go to the mountains to worship their ancestors, maintain the cemetery, or erect a monument to their ancestors and burn some coins, mainly to commemorate their ancestors. Most people who go out to work will return to their hometown on this day and finish this activity together. A little homely today, Tomb-Sweeping Day. Unlike Qingming, Qingming can't go to war, but the solstice in winter can.
It is a tradition in northern China to eat jiaozi on the solstice in winter. According to legend, it is a custom left to commemorate the medical sage Zhang Zhongjing's rescue of refugees. Jiaozi won't freeze his ears when he eats the winter solstice.
Make trouble in jiaozi Bowl on the solstice of winter, and no one will care if you freeze your ears.
1 October1day, when the winter solstice comes, every household in northern China eats jiaozi. This custom was left in memory of Zhang Zhongjing, a medical sage, who saved people on the solstice in winter.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhongjing returned to his hometown in his later years. It happened to snow on the solstice of winter. There are many refugees displaced by the war in Nanyang city. They have no food and clothes, and many people's ears are frozen. Zhang Zhongjing couldn't bear it, and his parents were good, so he taught his disciples to build a shed. Let the disciples use mutton, peppers and some herbs as stuffing to drive away the cold, and then wrap them into jiaozi and give them to the refugees. Because there are peppers and herbs in these jiaozi, the refugees' ears have recovered.
From then on, from the solstice of winter, everyone scrambled to eat jiaozi and jiaozi from the solstice of winter, not afraid of freezing their ears. This has also become a way to thank Zhang Zhongjing. But there is a problem. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were no peppers in China. I think it should be pepper.
In fact, when the solstice of winter comes, it is a simple wish of everyone in China to eat jiaozi and have a reunion. The family prepares all kinds of dumpling wrappers and fillings, and then they sit together to make jiaozi, eat jiaozi and have a round winter solstice.
In addition to eating jiaozi in the north, the south actually doesn't eat much, mainly eating glutinous rice balls, rice cakes, jiaozi and other delicacies. Every province is different, so we have a vast territory and rich resources.
Haha, we eat glutinous rice balls on the solstice in winter.
In memory of the medical sage-Zhang Zhongjing!
Today is the winter solstice solar term, and all parts of the country will prepare corresponding traditional foods to eat. Among them, jiaozi generally eats in the north, and there is a certain reason for eating jiaozi. The root cause is actually related to a famous doctor in ancient China. Then, do you know why you eat jiaozi on the winter solstice? Who eats jiaozi on the winter solstice to commemorate it? Let's get to know each other.
The winter of solstice is in memory of Zhang Zhongjing. Every year, during the winter solstice of the Lunar New Year, jiaozi is an indispensable holiday feast for both the rich and the poor. As the saying goes, "On October 1st, every household will eat jiaozi on the solstice of winter." This custom was left in memory of Zhang Zhongjing, a "medical sage", who gave up medicine from the winter solstice.
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 survive;" If you retreat, you will save the people; " You can't be a good doctor and you can't be a good doctor. "When the Eastern Han Dynasty was the magistrate of Changsha, he visited the sick and took medicine and practiced 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 build a medical shed and a cauldron in Dongguan, Nanyang, and to give up "Quhan Joule Decoction" to treat chilblain on the day of winter solstice. He cooked mutton and some herbs to dispel the cold in a pot, then took out the mutton and chopped the medicine to make ear-shaped Joules and bread. After cooking, he distributed two Joules and a big bowl of broth to everyone who came to ask for medicine. People ate "Joule" and drank "Quhan Decoction", and they were all hot, their ears were hot, and their frostbitten ears were cured. Later generations learned the appearance of Joule and packaged it into food, also called "jiaozi" or "flat food".
The Winter Solstice Festival originated in the Han Dynasty and flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties. Lu even said that the winter solstice is as big as a year. This shows that the ancients attached great importance to the winter solstice. People think that the winter solstice is a natural transformation of Yin and Yang and a blessing from heaven. In the Han Dynasty, the winter solstice was the "Winter Festival", and the government held a congratulatory ceremony called "He Dong", which was a routine festival. There is such a record in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty: "Before and after the winter solstice, a gentleman was prepared for danger in times of peace, refused to listen to politics, and chose an auspicious day to save trouble." Therefore, on this day, the court will have a holiday and rest, the army will be on standby, the frontier fortress will be closed, the business trip will be closed, relatives and friends will send meals to each other, visit each other, and have a "quiet" holiday happily.
In the Tang and Song Dynasties, the solstice in winter was the day of ancestor worship. On this day, the emperor went to the suburbs to hold a ceremony to worship the gods. On this day, people must pay homage to their parents. There are still some places to celebrate the winter solstice.
In the past, my family was very poor, so I had to make a tooth sacrifice in winter solstice to improve my life and commemorate my mouth.