As the saying goes, "Don't eat jiaozi on the solstice in winter, and freeze your ears". Is it true?/You don't say.

As the saying goes, "Don't eat jiaozi, freeze your ears." These words were left by the old people in winter, saying that you must eat jiaozi on the solstice of winter. Maybe you were disobedient when you were a child, and the old people said it to scare you.

The winter solstice is also called the Winter Festival, the Long Festival and the Sub-Year Festival. These names, more than 2,500 years ago, China has observed the sun with the earth, and determined the winter solstice, which is the earliest of the 24 solar terms. Solstice originated in the Han Dynasty, flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and has continued to this day. Every year, during the winter solstice of the Lunar New Year, jiaozi is an indispensable holiday feast for both the rich and the poor. As the saying goes: "On October 1st, when the solstice of winter comes, every family eats jiaozi." This custom was left in memory of Zhang Zhongjing, a "medical sage", who gave up medicine from the winter solstice.

Zhang Zhongjing is an official in Changsha. When he retired, it happened to be that winter. In winter, the cold wind blows hard and heavy snow falls. Zhang Zhongjing was very sad to see that too many poor people froze their ears because of the cold. After returning to China, he invented a therapeutic method to keep out the cold, called "Quhan Joule Decoction". In fact, the soup for dispelling cold joules is to put mutton and some medicines for dispelling cold joules in a pot and cook them. After cooking, take it out and chop it up. Their ears are wrapped in dough. Then put them in the pot. Then cook it with the original soup and the dough wrapped with stuffing.

Finally, Zhang Zhongjing can't freeze his ears. Zhang Zhongjing distributed it to every poor person. After eating, people get hot all over and their ears are burning, and no one will frostbite their ears any more. Because Zhang Zhongjing died on the solstice of winter, he also gave up the "cold ear soup" for everyone on the solstice of winter. In memory of him, everyone will eat jiaozi on the solstice in winter. They all say that after eating jiaozi on the solstice in winter, their ears won't freeze in winter.