Beginning of winter eats jiaozi.

Beginning of winter wants to eat jiaozi.

In northern China, there is a custom of eating jiaozi in beginning of winter. In early winter, you can improve your life, but it is not as delicious as jiaozi. In the north, the rule in beginning of winter is to eat jiaozi, because jiaozi looks like ears. People think that if you eat them, your ears will not be frozen in winter. In addition, jiaozi's homonym "cross" means that beginning of winter is the turn of autumn and winter.

Beginning of winter is the first solar term in winter, representing the beginning of winter. It's early March in winter. Beginning of winter, beginning of spring, Changsha and beginning of autumn are collectively called "Li Si". Spring planting in Xia Yun, autumn harvest in winter storage, all things germinate in spring, grow in summer, harvest in autumn and rest in winter. Beginning of winter means that life begins to close, everything enters a state of recuperation, and plants wither.

The origin of eating jiaozi from winter solstice.

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 sad 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 imitated Changsha's method and let his disciples set up a medicine shed and cauldron in an open space in Dongguan, Nanyang.

On the day of winter solstice, the medicine prescribed by Zhang Zhongjing was called "Quhan Joule Decoction", which was a summary of clinical practice in the Han Dynasty for more than 300 years. Its practice is to put mutton and some cold-dispelling herbs in a pot, take them out and chop them up after cooking, and wrap them into ear-shaped "Joules" with flour bags. After cooking, distribute it to patients who ask for medicine, each with two joules and a bowl of soup.