The solstice of winter means that the cold winter is coming. On the winter solstice, the yellow meridian of the sun is 270 degrees? . On the solstice of winter, the sun shines almost directly on the tropic of Capricorn. Our northern hemisphere has the shortest day and the longest night, and it has begun to enter several cold days. Astronomy stipulates that this day is the beginning of winter in the northern hemisphere.
After the winter solstice, the direct sunlight gradually moved northward, and the days in the northern hemisphere gradually became longer. As the saying goes, eating noodles on the solstice in winter will make the day longer. Why do you eat jiaozi on the solstice in winter?
(Legend 1) In memory of Zhang Zhongjing
According to legend, when Zhang Zhongjing was the magistrate of Changsha, he often treated the people. One year, when the local plague was prevalent, he made a cauldron at the entrance of Yamen, giving up medicine to save people, which was deeply loved by Changsha people.
After Zhang Zhongjing retired from Changsha, he just caught up with the winter solstice and walked to the shore of the Baihe River in his hometown. He saw that many poor people were hungry and cold, and their ears were frozen. It turned out that typhoid fever was prevalent at that time and many people died. He was very upset and determined to treat them.
When Zhang Zhongjing came home, many people sought medical treatment. He is as busy as a bee, but he always remembers those poor people with frozen ears. He followed Changsha's example and told his disciples to build a medical shed and cauldron in an open space in Dongguan, Nanyang, and open it on the day of winter solstice to send medicine to the poor to treat their injuries.
Zhang Zhongjing didn't give up taking medicine until New Year's Eve. On the first day of New Year's Day, people celebrate the New Year and the recovery of rotten ears. They cook food for the New Year like burnt ears and eat it on the first morning. People call this kind of food jiaozi, jiaozi or flat food, and eat it on the solstice of winter and the first day of New Year to commemorate the day when Zhang Zhongjing opened the shed to give medicine and cure patients.
(Legend 2) Nu Wa made man.
In Huaichuan area, eating jiaozi in winter solstice is related to Nu Wa's making people. Legend has it that in ancient winter, the clay figurine ears made by Nu Wa were often frozen off, so Nu Wa had to sew them back.
One day, after nuwa sewed a clay figurine's ear, she temporarily put the remaining thread into the clay figurine's mouth and took a bite. She turned to look for scissors. When she came back with scissors, she had a good idea.
She tied the two ends of the thread to the clay figurine's ears and mouth respectively, so that the clay figurine's ears would not be frozen off. Later, on the solstice of winter, people were afraid of being frozen off their ears, so they tied them with thread, because jiaozi was shaped like an ear. Gradually, people turned biting thread into eating jiaozi.
(Legend 3) In memory of Bian Que
In northern China, eating jiaozi on the solstice in winter is related to the imperial doctor Bian Que. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the winter was particularly cold, and many people suffered from frostbite, ear rot and unbearable pain. Bian Que, a famous doctor, chopped mutton, pepper and Chinese herbal medicine into stuffing, wrapped it in dough, cooked it and distributed it to everyone. As a result, the frostbite soon healed.
Later, in order to prevent frostbite, people packed jiaozi in succession during the cold season from winter to Sunday. This kind of jiaozi is delicious and healing, and it has been passed down to this day. What's the point of eating jiaozi?
1, celery stuffing
Qin and Qin have the same pronunciation, so they mean diligence and practicality, and diligence also means frequency. The pronunciation of celery is similar to diligence and wealth, meaning endless wealth.
2, leek stuffing
The pronunciation of leek is similar to that of Jiucai, so it means long-term wealth. The pronunciation of leek itself is similar to that of Jiujiu, which means long-term meaning.
3. Chinese cabbage stuffing
The pronunciation of cabbage is similar to that of Baibao, so there are hundreds of rich meanings and wishes for growing old together.
4. Sauerkraut stuffing
The pronunciation of acid is similar to calculation, and calculating wealth means countless wealth.
5. Rapeseed stuffing
The pronunciation of rape is similar to that of talent and wealth, so it means talent and wealth.
6. Wild vegetable stuffing
Wild means wild, which is obtained by accident, so it means to get windfall.
7. Mushroom stuffing
The shape of the mushroom itself is that the umbrella cap protrudes upward, and the pronunciation of the mushroom is similar to that of a drum, so it means vigorous upward.
8. Fish stuffing
The pronunciation of fish is similar to that of fish, so it has a meaning of more than one year.
9. Beef stuffing
Bull means bullish, and the stock market also means bullish, so it means bullish.
10, mutton stuffing
The pronunciation of sheep is similar to that of the ocean, which has a wide range of meanings, so it has many meanings of wealth.
1 1, jujube stuffing
The pronunciation of jujube is similar to Zhao, so it has auspicious meaning.
12, sweet stuffing
Sweet pronunciation is close to the sky, so it means increasing wealth and treasure.