How much do you know about the 24 solar terms in jiaozi during the winter solstice?

Summer solstice and winter solstice are two of the 24 solar terms, and they are also traditional festivals of the Chinese nation.

The solstice in summer marks the arrival of heat. On the third watch after the summer, the solstice entered the dog days. At this time, the weather is hot, and people are often too hot to eat or sleep well, which is called "cool summer". At this time, people pay more attention to nourishing and preventing rotation. The custom of winter solstice is to sacrifice ancestors and eat jiaozi in diet. One saying is to commemorate the custom left by Zhang Zhongjing, a medical saint, in the winter of solstice. There is also a saying that because the weather is getting colder and colder at the beginning of the winter solstice, jiaozi is shaped like an ear, so it is said that eating jiaozi in the winter solstice will not freeze your ear.

Eating noodles in summer also has a long history on the solstice. According to documents, in Wei Dynasty, China had the custom of eating noodles in the afternoon. In Shandong, Hebei and Henan, people not only cut bread into pieces to make noodle soup, but also cut it into prismatic pieces the size of a finger's belly with a knife and cook it in mung bean soup. Eating noodles from summer solstice is a natural enjoyment, which is also related to the seasonal climate at that time. In order to eat hot noodles, people sweat to get wet and eat cold noodles to get rid of fire, which also happens to use the summer solstice to improve their lives and nourish their bodies.