A short story about the winter solstice

A short story about the Winter Solstice

A short story about the Winter Solstice. The Winter Solstice is one of the traditional festivals with a long history in our country, and some stories about the Winter Solstice are still widely circulated from ancient times to the present day. The following is a short story about the winter solstice that I carefully prepared for you. Come and read it together. I hope you all like it. Winter Solstice Story 1

Chapter 1: Winter Solstice Legend Story

The custom of eating dog meat during the Winter Solstice is said to have started in the Han Dynasty. According to legend, Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, ate dog meat cooked by Fan Kuai on the day of the winter solstice. He thought it tasted particularly delicious and was full of praise. Since then, the folk custom of eating dog meat during the winter solstice has been formed. Nowadays, people eat dog meat, mutton and various nutritious foods on the day of the winter solstice in order to have a good omen in the coming year.

Chapter 2: Legends about the Winter Solstice Festival

In the Jiangnan water towns, there is a custom of the whole family gathering together to eat red beans and glutinous rice on the night of the winter solstice. According to legend, there was a man named Mr. Gong whose son was not successful and committed many evil deeds. He died on the winter solstice. After his death, he turned into a plague ghost and continued to harm the people. However, this plague ghost is most afraid of red beans, so people cook and eat red bean rice on the winter solstice to ward off plague ghosts and prevent disasters and diseases.

Chapter 3: Winter Solstice Legend Stories

In the past, there was a saying in old Beijing: "Winter Solstice Wonton and Summer Solstice Noodles". According to legend, during the Han Dynasty, the Huns from the north often harassed the frontiers and the people had no peace. At that time, there were two leaders in the Xiongnu tribe, the Hun clan and the Tun clan, who were very ferocious. The people hated it so much that they used meat fillings to wrap it into wontons and called them "wontons" after taking the sounds of "hun" and "tun". He eats his hatred and hopes to quell the war and live a peaceful life. Because wontons were first made on the winter solstice, every household eats wontons on the winter solstice. Short Story of Winter Solstice 2

One of the legends of Winter Solstice

It comes from the ancient emperors - Emperor Huang and Emperor Yao. There are two theories that the Winter Solstice Festival originated from Emperor Huang and Emperor Yao. "Historical Records: The Benji of Xiaowu" records that a minister said to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, "The Yellow Emperor obtained the treasured divine cauldron (ce or jia) at the winter solstice on the first day of the first month of the year. He obtained the order of the heavens and began again. So the Yellow Emperor welcomed The day was pushed, and the queen was twenty years old, and the winter solstice was celebrated. This record shows that the Yellow Emperor used the winter solstice as the first day of the year, and rode the "Shuodan", but there is no relevant record in "Historical Records: Huangdi Benji". It is difficult to test the certificate alone. Another theory is that Emperor Yao once ordered his uncle to live in the north to observe the movement of the sun and then determine the time of the winter solstice. "Shang Shu Yao Dian Yu Shu" once recorded: "(Emperor Yao) Shen Minghe and his uncle lived in Shuo Fang, which is called Youdu. Peace is in Shuo Yi. The days are short and the stars are in the Pleiades, so it is midwinter." (Note: Shuo means the north. . ) "Shangshu" was written relatively recently to the time of Emperor Yao, so the credibility of the document is relatively high, and the historical materials contained are closer to historical facts. It can be seen that the winter solstice as a festival has been valued by people in ancient China.

Winter Solstice Legend 2

The custom of southerners eating red beans and glutinous rice is related to plague ghosts. In most people's minds, eating glutinous rice balls during the winter solstice in the South is related to the original name of glutinous rice balls "Winter Solstice Tuan", and glutinous rice balls have the meaning of reunion, which indicates the meaning of reunion after the winter solstice and during the Spring Festival. Nowadays, people often use the second explanation, which means reunion.

Fewer and fewer people know about the custom of eating red beans and glutinous rice during the Winter Solstice. In fact, this custom comes from folklore. According to legend, there was a man named Mr. Gong. He had an underachieving son who did many evil things and died on the winter solstice. After his death, he turned into a plague ghost and continued. But this epidemic ghost is most afraid of red beans, so people cook and eat red bean rice on the winter solstice to ward off the epidemic ghost and cure diseases and prevent disasters. In ancient times, people actually used glutinous rice to wrap various vegetables and meat as fillings on the Winter Solstice, both to worship ancestors and to give to relatives and friends.

Winter Solstice Legend No. 3

Eating dumplings is related to the medical sage Zhang Zhongjing’s treatment of “chilblain” on the ears, which is the northern custom of “pinching frozen ears”. Legend has it that this custom originated from Zhang Zhongjing, a medical sage from Nanyang in the Han Dynasty. When Zhang Zhongjing retired from his official career in Changsha and returned to his hometown, it was a snowy winter with biting cold wind. He saw that many villagers on both sides of the Baihe River in Nanyang had their ears rotten by the frost, so he ordered his disciples to set up a medical shed in Guandong, Nanyang, put mutton, pepper and cold-repelling medicinal materials in a pot and cook them, take them out and chop them into pieces. The dough is wrapped in the shape of ears, and then cooked in a pot to make a medicine called "cold-repelling ear-correcting soup" and given to the people. After taking it, people's frozen ears were cured. Later, every time the winter solstice entered the ninth month, people imitated making and eating it, and called it "dumplings", also called "bianshi", or "hot noodle dumplings". People also said that they ate dumplings from the winter solstice. It does not freeze people, so the custom of "pinching frozen ears" has been formed. This custom is especially popular in Henan. On the winter solstice, no matter whether the family is rich or poor, they will eat dumplings. According to the folk saying: "In November, when the winter solstice arrives, every household eats dumplings." Because the arrival of the winter solstice means that it means As the weather gets colder, in order to protect your ears from freezing, you eat dumplings that look like ears. Therefore, we will find that no matter where they are in the north, they will eat a bowl of hot dumplings on the winter solstice to ensure that they can survive the winter healthily and usher in the new year. .

Short Story of Winter Solstice 3

Winter Solstice Legendary Stories

Zhang Zhongjing's medicine is called "Quhan Jiaoer Soup". The recipe is to use mutton, pepper and some cold-dispelling medicinal materials in a pot. Boil and simmer. After cooking, take these things out and chop them into pieces. Wrap them in dough into ear-shaped "Jiao Er" and put them in the pot until cooked.

People ate "Jiao Er" and drank "Quhan Tang". Their whole bodies were warm, their ears felt hot, and their frostbitten ears were cured. Later generations imitated the appearance of "Jiao Er" and wrapped them into food, also called "dumplings" or "flat food". Eating dumplings during the winter solstice is to remember the kindness of "Medical Saint" Zhang Zhongjing's "Quhan Jiao Er Soup". There is still a folk saying in Nanyang that "if you don't bring dumpling bowls during the winter solstice, your ears will freeze off and no one will care".

It has been nearly 1800 years since Zhang Zhongjing, but the story of his recipe of "Quhan Jiao Er Soup" has been widely circulated among the people. Every winter solstice and New Year's Day, people eat dumplings and still remember Zhang Zhongjing's kindness in their hearts. Today, we no longer need to use Jiao'er to treat frozen rotten ears, but dumplings have become people's most common and favorite food.

The ancestors must have spent a lot of effort to figure out these solar terms. All this effort was just for the sake of eating. During the years when one depends on the sky for food, if one does not understand the solar terms, he may go hungry or die. These solar terms are slowly turning into festivals, and the most direct way to commemorate them is still to eat. For example, spring pancakes are eaten at the beginning of spring and dumplings are eaten during the winter solstice. I feel like this couldn’t be a more innocent celebration. Eating well is our first happiness.