What food did the ancients eat on the winter solstice?

Now we all know that we will eat jiaozi on the solstice in winter. Ancient people actually ate jiaozi. After all, this custom was left to us by our ancestors. The winter solstice is the 22nd of the 24 solar terms. There is a saying? Is the winter solstice as big as a year? When the solstice of winter comes, it is the real winter, and it is not far from the New Year. Therefore, generally speaking, people will cook some hot soup or wrap jiaozi in winter solstice.

Northerners prefer to eat jiaozi, which is an ancient traditional pasta. No matter what festivals are celebrated, northerners like to cook a bowl of jiaozi. Because jiaozi was invented by a Chinese doctor, he first made a bowl of jiaozi soup, which cured many hungry and spoiled local people. So now there are many places where jiaozi is popular in winter solstice to commemorate him, and there are also many places where it is said that eating jiaozi will not freeze your ears.

In ancient times, some people would eat wonton, because these two ingredients are similar in appearance, methods and ingredients. Moreover, according to the algorithm of the weekly calendar, the solstice in winter is the beginning of a year, so wonton, also known as chaos, is equivalent to opening up the world and opening up a new season, which is also a beautiful symbol. Moreover, there are many records of eating wonton in ancient times, just as the Chronicle Miscellanies in the Song Dynasty said:? Shi Jingren eats more wonton on the solstice in winter. ? And recorded a folk song:? The new festival is dead, the shoes are worn out, and the wonton is pinched, bite by bite. ?

But in fact, no matter what you eat on the solstice in winter, it is a beautiful moral left by people since ancient times. It is because ancient people didn't have heaters and air conditioners that they were easy to get cold at that time and wore thin clothes, so it was this kind of soup and water to warm their bodies, which passed down over time and became a custom. I have to say that China's culture is profound, but many of them are customs handed down from daily chores.