The origin of eating wonton in summer solstice

The origin of eating wonton from summer solstice: once eaten, wonton will not grow prickly heat. In the summer solstice in Jiangnan, we pay attention to eating wonton, saying that eating wonton can ensure that summer is not bitter and can be spent healthily. According to legend, in the Song Dynasty, every summer solstice, the royal chefs would wrap the summer solstice wonton for the empresses, and even in the Song Dynasty, there was mango wonton, a famous pastry.

Eating wonton on the solstice in summer makes people smart. Wonton, called Wonton by the ancients, is shaped like a chicken egg, which is quite similar to the chaos of heaven and earth and is homophonic with chaos. When Pangu opened the sky, chaos began. It is wise to eat wonton. People also extend to eat wonton to break the chaos and open the world.

Extended data

Summer solstice is one of the 24 solar terms. Every year on June 2 1 or 22 of Gregorian calendar, the sun moves to 90 degrees of the yellow meridian, which is the summer solstice. At this time, the position of the sun directly on the ground reaches the northernmost point of the year, almost directly on the Tropic of Cancer, and the sunshine time in the northern hemisphere is the longest. After the summer solstice, Yin Qi began to grow and Yang Qi began to decline. However, the summer solstice is not hot, but the summer solstice is midnight. Although the summer solstice indicates that the hot summer has arrived, it is not the hottest time. After the summer solstice, the temperature will continue to rise for some time, and about twenty or thirty days is the hottest weather.