About the origin and legend of the winter solstice?

The footsteps of winter solstice make winter even colder. The north began to eat jiaozi, and the south began to prepare dumplings. As the earliest of the 24 solar terms, it is a special festival. Then, this issue of the Old Yellow Calendar will take you to see the origin and legend of the winter solstice.

The origin of the winter solstice: After the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty, Duke Zhou wanted to find the center of the whole country, so as to facilitate the construction of ancestral temples and sacrificial activities. He sent an expert to get an eight-foot pole, called Tugui, and wanted to be a measuring instrument now. He stuck it in the ground and measured the center of the country according to the length of the shadow.

They designated the day with the longest shadow as the winter solstice, so the winter solstice was the first solar term to be determined. The shortest day is the summer solstice, which is the second solar term.

Legend of winter solstice: First of all, there is a proverb in old Beijing, "Winter solstice wonton and summer solstice noodles". According to legend, during the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu in the north often harassed the frontier, and the people were restless. At that time, there were two leaders, Xiongnu tribe and Tun tribe, which were very cruel. The people hated it, so they wrapped it in meat and called it "wonton" in the voice of "Hun" and "Tun". They hated eating, hoping to calm the war and live a peaceful life. Because wonton was originally made on the winter solstice, every family eats wonton on the winter solstice. Eating "frozen ears" is a common name for Henan people to eat jiaozi from the winter solstice. Why is there such a diet custom? According to legend, Zhang Zhongjing, a doctor from Nanyang, was an official in Changsha. When he retired in his later years, it was a snowy winter and the wind was biting. He was very sad when he saw the villagers on both sides of the Baihe River in Nanyang dressed in rags, and many people's ears were frozen rotten. He asked his disciples to set up a medicine shed in Guandong, Nanyang, and put mutton, peppers and some cold-dispelling herbs in a pot, fished them out and chopped them up, imaged their ears with leather bags, and then put them down in the pot to make a medicine called "cold-dispelling and ear-correcting soup" for the people. After eating it, the villagers' ears will be fine. Later, on the solstice of winter, people imitated and cooked, thus forming the custom of "pinching ears". Later, people called it "jiaozi", while others called it "flat food" and "instant noodle jiaozi". People also say that people will not be frozen in jiaozi after eating the winter solstice.

Secondly, it is said that the custom of eating dog meat in winter began in the Han Dynasty. According to legend, Liu Bang, Emperor Gaozu of Han Dynasty, ate dog meat cooked by Fan Kuai on the solstice in winter, which was particularly delicious and full of praise. Since then, the custom of eating dog meat from winter solstice has been formed among the people. Nowadays, people eat dog meat, mutton and all kinds of nutritious food on the solstice of winter, which is a good sign for the coming year.

Thirdly, there is a custom in Jiangnan water town that the whole family get together to eat red beans and glutinous rice in the evening from winter to Sunday. According to legend, there was a man named Gong, whose son died in the winter and became a god of plague after his death. However, this epidemic ghost is most afraid of red beans, so people cook red bean rice from winter solstice to drive away the epidemic ghost and prevent diseases.

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