Don't eat jiaozi on the solstice in winter.

There are some sayings that people don't eat jiaozi from the solstice in winter, such as "Nobody cares about frozen ears", "Nobody bites people from the solstice in winter, and there is no positive wind in the fields" and so on.

But in fact, not eating jiaozi in winter generally has no effect on the solstice. Eating jiaozi on the solstice in winter is just a traditional custom. It doesn't matter if you don't eat, but if you can, try to eat. If you don't eat jiaozi, your ears will freeze. Actually, it's just a reminder that the weather is getting cold today. Keep warm and don't freeze your ears. Windy ears are the easiest to catch a cold.

Zhang Zhongjing, a famous doctor in Henan, is known as the "imperial doctor" because of his exquisite medical skills. When Zhang Zhongjing came home in his later years, he was very sad to see some poor people without fur hats and their ears were frozen. On the day of winter solstice, he came to Dongguan, Nanyang, set up a shed and pot, and treated the poor with "cold horn soup". Later, on the solstice of winter, people remembered Zhang Zhongjing's way of treating people and learned to make ear-shaped food, which is called "jiaozi" or "flat food".

Introduction of winter solstice

Winter solstice, also known as solstice, winter festival, child year, etc. It has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is not only an important solar term among the 24 solar terms, but also a traditional folk ancestor worship festival in China. The solstice in winter is one of the eight festivals in four seasons, and it is considered as a big holiday in winter. In ancient times, there was a saying that the winter solstice was as big as a year.

People have always attached great importance to the winter solstice festival. In the pre-Qin period, the customs and cultures of the north and the south were different, and the customs of various places had not been integrated and popularized. Many festivals have a history, but they are not recorded. In southern China, there are customs of offering sacrifices to ancestors and enjoying the winter solstice. In northern China, it is a custom to eat jiaozi from winter to Sunday every year.