Dumplings are a medicinal diet invented by the medicine sage Zhang Zhongjing. Finally, people developed many kinds of dumpling fillings.
Old people often say that eating dumplings during the Winter Solstice will prevent your ears from freezing. Actually there is another story here. According to legend, during the Eastern Han Dynasty, people suffered from a plague, which coincided with winter.
Zhang Zhongjing was an official in Changsha at the time. Due to the raging plague, the people had no food to eat, and the weather was cold and frostbite occurred. He felt really bad when he saw the suffering of the people, so he invented a medicinal diet since he was a doctor.
He cooked the mutton and some herbs such as chili peppers in a pot, then took them out and chopped them into pieces. Then it is made with bread and looks like an ear. People call it "Quhan Jiao Er Soup".
Because there were too many people at that time, he would give everyone two Jiao Er every day. After that, people's frostbite improved. On New Year's Eve, in order to celebrate their recovery, people made dumplings imitating Jiaoer's appearance.
After that, it slowly spread, and now every family will prepare a pot full of hot dumplings during the holidays. Dumplings also have many types of dumpling fillings. Everyone is still inventing new types, such as seafood, vegetables, beef, etc.
At a university in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, 30,000 free dumpling coupons and 5 tons of drinks were prepared for all teachers and students. Many netizens said that this is someone else's school and praised such a heartwarming school. I remember there was a news report before that the teachers in a middle school treated the whole class to hot pot for free, because the weather was cooling down at that time, and the teachers thought of eating hot pot in order to warm up the students.
Such a heart-warming school and these heart-warming teachers belong to other people. But to be able to think of such thoughtful things is really thoughtful and deeply touches the warmth in my heart.
Dumplings are memories that accompany every Chinese person. The medical sage Zhang Zhongjing also used this method to save people and get along with them. However, this is also a heart-warming story that deserves to be passed down. Thanks to these warm people in winter, the cold winter has a lot of warmth.