Why do you eat jiaozi on the solstice in winter? Is there any basis? What kind of customs are there?

1, because eating jiaozi on the solstice in winter is a traditional custom in China.

There is a traditional custom of eating glutinous rice balls on the solstice of winter.

3. The origin of eating jiaozi on the winter solstice is as follows:

Eating jiaozi in the winter of solstice originated from doctor Zhang Zhongjing. When he saw people's ears were frozen in the cold, he used bread to drive away the cold and cooked it into Joule soup to cure people's ears.

Winter solstice is the first of the 24 solar terms, which is called "sub-year". During the Yin and Zhou Dynasties, the day before winter ended the year. In ancient times, the winter solstice was a very important festival. It is said that the winter solstice was as big as a year. The imperial court and the people have always attached great importance to it, and there have been sacrificial activities since the Zhou Dynasty.

On the solstice after winter, the weather is mainly cold, so people often keep warm and nourish yang to resist cold evil. Jiaozi is a delicious food with comprehensive nutrition and easy digestion and absorption. You can stuff mutton, cabbage, green onions, leeks and radishes. These dishes are warm and have a certain warming effect on the human body.

People in Henan have the custom of eating jiaozi from the winter solstice, which is called "pinching frozen ears". There is also a legend: it is said that Zhang Zhongjing, a doctor in Nanyang, was originally a medical officer, and it was a snowy winter when he retired in his later years. He saw that the villagers in Nanyang were hungry and cold, and many people's ears were frozen.

So he asked his disciples to set up a medicine shed in Guandong, Nanyang. They cooked mutton, peppers and some herbs for removing cold in a pot, fished them out and chopped them, kneaded them into ears with leather bags, and then put them down to cook them in a pot to make a soup for removing cold and correcting ears for the villagers to eat.

After the villagers had eaten, their frozen ears were cured. Later, on the solstice in winter, people imitated this way of eating by pinching their ears, saying that eating jiaozi on the solstice in winter would not freeze people.