Today's winter solstice, everyone is busy eating jiaozi, but I can't make it. How to say it in ancient Chinese, like the Analects of Confucius?

On the solstice of winter, people are busy eating jiaozi, but my hands are clumsy and I am not good at cooking.

The winter solstice is a very important solar term in China. Winter solstice is one of the traditional festivals of Han nationality. It originated in the Han Dynasty, flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and has existed ever since.

As early as more than 2,500 years ago in the Spring and Autumn Period, China had observed the sun with the earth and determined the winter solstice, which was the earliest of the 24 solar terms. This day is the shortest day and the longest night in the northern hemisphere all year round. On the solstice of winter, there will be different customs in the north and south of China, and most areas in the north will eat jiaozi.

There is a custom of eating jiaozi from the solstice in winter, which is called eating "frozen ears". There is also a legend: it is said that Zhang Zhongjing, a doctor in Nanyang, was originally a medical officer, and it was a snowy winter when he retired in his later years. He saw that the villagers in Nanyang were hungry and cold, and many people's ears were frozen.

So he asked his disciples to set up a medicine shed in Guandong, Nanyang. They cooked mutton, peppers and some herbs for removing cold in a pot, fished them out and chopped them, kneaded them into ears with leather bags, and then put them down to cook them in a pot to make a soup for removing cold and correcting ears for the villagers to eat. After the villagers had eaten, their frozen ears were cured.

Later, on the solstice in winter, people imitated this way of eating by pinching their ears, saying that eating jiaozi on the solstice in winter would not freeze people.