The story of winter solstice

The story about the winter solstice

The story about the winter solstice. The winter solstice, also known as the southern solstice, winter festival, sub-year, etc., has both natural and humanistic connotations. An important solar term among the four solar terms, it is also a traditional ancestor worship festival among Chinese people. Let’s take a look at the story about the winter solstice. Story of the Winter Solstice 1

Legends (1)

The custom of eating dumplings can be traced back to the Eastern Han Dynasty. According to legend, Nanyang Medical Saint Zhang Zhongjing was originally a medical officer. When he retired from old age and returned to his hometown, it was snowing heavily. winter. He saw that the folks in Nanyang were suffering from cold and hunger, and many people's ears were rotten by the cold.

So he asked his disciples to set up a medical tent in Guandong, Nanyang, put mutton, pepper and some cold-repelling medicinal materials in a pot and cooked them, take them out and chop them into pieces, and use dough wrappers to shape them into ears. , then put it in the pot and cook it to make "cold-repelling ear-correcting soup" and given to the villagers.

After the villagers took it, their frozen ears were cured. Later, every winter solstice, people would imitate this kind of "pinching frozen ears" to eat, saying that eating dumplings during the winter solstice would not freeze anyone. 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".

Legends (2)

According to legend, during the reign of Emperor Wu of Liang Dynasty in the Six Dynasties, the old name of Nanjing was still Jiankang City. One day, an old man presented tree seeds to Emperor Liang, saying that the tree seeds were collected from the deep valleys in southern Xinjiang and had gathered the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. If they were taken care of carefully, they would surely bless Liang. Emperor Liang looked at it and said, "It's just a cypress tree." He didn't believe it, so he planted it in the palace garden. Within two or three years, even though no one was taking care of it, the trees still took root and sprouted lushly. A few years later, the spiritual energy condensed and he was born into a tree spirit.

The Liang Emperor believed in Buddhism, built temples extensively, wasted people and money, ignored state affairs, and devoted himself to becoming a monk, which caused widespread lamentation among the people. Emperor Liang himself did not eat meat, and he did not allow the people to eat meat, nor did he allow the people to offer meat as sacrifices. The gods were displeased when they saw that all the tributes were vegetarian, and told the Jade Emperor that they were disrespectful to the gods. The Jade Emperor was also displeased when he heard this, so he ordered Jiankang to suffer a severe drought for three years as punishment.

The tree spirit couldn't bear to see the people suffer, so on the winter solstice, it transformed into a girl named Jiao, and taught the people to secretly use dough skins as clothes, wrap them in meat, shape them into various shapes, and make food and sacrifices; they also consumed themselves The spiritual power gave up and became an immortal, praying for rain for Jiankang City. The Jade Emperor was grateful for his sacrifice and restored peace and prosperity to Jiankang City. For a time, it was widely sung among the people and worshiped as a god. Emperor Liang heard about her magical power and saw her beauty, so he wanted to take her as his concubine and use her magical power to rule the world. Jiao didn't want to, and Emperor Liang was angry, so he killed her, not wanting others to gain her.

After Jiao's death, the Jade Emperor was unjust and set up a rebellion by Hou Jing, starving Emperor Liang to death in Taicheng, and appointed Jiao as an immortal to be in charge of grain for the people. The cypress tree attached to Jiao Zhen's body has also protected Jiankang City for more than a thousand years and has not been damaged by wars and wars. Up to now, it is known as Liuchaosong. The people thanked her and named the food she invented dumplings, eating them on the winter solstice when she was born, and worshiping their gods and ancestors on the winter solstice to show respect. Story of the Winter Solstice 2

In ancient my country, the Winter Solstice was regarded as a major festival. Not only was it said that the Winter Solstice was as big as the New Year, but there was also the custom of celebrating the Winter Solstice. In addition to offering sacrifices to heaven and ancestors, the northern region has the custom of slaughtering sheep and eating dumplings and wontons during the Winter Solstice, while the southern region has the custom of eating winter solstice rice dumplings and winter solstice noodles.

If you don’t serve dumpling bowls during the Winter Solstice in Nanyang, your ears will freeze off and no one will care. On the winter solstice every year, regardless of whether you are rich or poor, dumplings are an essential holiday meal. As the saying goes: On October 1st, when the winter solstice arrives, every household eats dumplings. This custom was left behind in commemoration of the medical sage Zhang Zhongjing giving away medicine during the winter solstice. Suzhou people celebrate the Winter Solstice by eating wontons to remember Xi Shi. Suzhou still has the tradition that the Winter Solstice is as big as the New Year. The reunion dinner is not only sumptuous, but the names of each dish also have a meaning.

It is said that Suzhou people still have the custom of eating wontons during the Winter Solstice. It is said that at a banquet in the Spring and Autumn Period of Wu and Yue, the King of Wu lost his appetite after being tired of delicacies from the mountains and seas. The beautiful woman Xi Shi went into the imperial kitchen to pack a dustpan-style snack and presented it to the King of Wu. King Wu ate a large bowl in one go and asked repeatedly: What kind of snack is this that is so delicious? Xishi thought: This foolish king is confused and confused, so he casually responded: Chaos. In order to commemorate Xi Shi’s wisdom and creation, Suzhou people designated it as a special delicacy during the Winter Solstice Festival.

Eating brains during the Winter Solstice in Ningxia. People in Yinchuan celebrate the Winter Solstice, also called the Ghost Festival. On this day, people drink rice noodle soup and eat dumplings made of mutton rice noodle soup. Today's mutton noodle soup has a weird name. Generally, after the rice dumplings are cooked, a bowl is served first, and a bowl is also served to the neighbors.

I couldn’t eat dumplings in the morning, so I bought three-point pancakes and fennel pancakes soaked in powder soup to eat. People in Fujian love to eat meatball soup during the winter solstice. They look forward to the frost on the winter solstice when the weather is not bright yet, and the cypress leaves are red in the moonlight, and the meatballs are held in hand. During the winter solstice in Fujian, there is a folk custom of offering cooked sweet meatballs to worship ancestors. The night of the winter solstice is the longest, and the children love to eat meatball soup. They can't sleep and clamor for mother to eat meatball soup before dawn.

The housewife poured the meatballs into the pot, added water with ginger and sugar (ginger and sugar can dispel cold and stimulate appetite) and cook it into a fragrant, sweet, sticky and hot sweet meatball soup. . After offering it to the ancestors, the whole family divides it and eats it. Story of the Winter Solstice 3

Story to watch on the Winter Solstice: The Story of Delicious Food

There is a young and beautiful wizard in the S Circus. She usually sells tickets at the door. After the show starts She slipped into the audience.

She held a pair of transparent scissors to cut off the eyelashes of children who were engrossed in watching the show and put them into a black glass bottle. In the dead of night, she would lock herself in her workshop and prepare all kinds of magical medicines: medicines that can make you younger, medicines that can make you older, medicines that can change animals, medicines that can change plants, There are also medicines that can change whatever you want. All her medicines would have a label with symbols that only she could understand.

One day, an 8-year-old girl went to the circus wearing her mother's false eyelashes. She had just cried. Because her mother was an actress and was very busy, she did not have time to take her to see it. She bought a ticket with her own pocket money and followed her classmates into the venue. The wizard continued to collect what she needed as before. At the end of the performance, the girl found that the long false eyelashes on her eyes had become bald. She was very scared, so she paid close attention to who had secretly cut them. She noticed the young wizard's every move and finally followed her to the workshop backstage at the circus. Because the wizard had other work to do, he put down the black glass bottle and left, leaving the little girl alone in the room.

The little girl poured out the contents of the black glass bottle and did not find her false eyelashes (because they had been cut short and lost their original shape). Not willing to give in, she poured out all the labeled medicines and piled them into a small pile on the table. When she saw that the clock was approaching nine o'clock in the evening, she suddenly remembered that it was time to go home. She ignored the messy bottles on the table, closed the door of the room, and went home quickly.

In the middle of the night, the wizard returned to the workroom exhausted. She originally wanted to take a bath with the youthful medicine. But when she found that almost all the medicines were mixed in a pile, she burst into tears. It turns out that drugs lose their function after being mixed. The tigers, lions, monkeys, sheep and dogs in the circus were all made of drugs. She aged 100 years in one hour.

The next day, Circus S disappeared mysteriously...

The children there had been looking forward to seeing such a wonderful circus again.

Moral of the story: Foodies list the delicious things in their impressions in chronological order to commemorate them. Milk powder cake or rice flour cake is delicious. It was originally a complementary food for my sister who was still drinking milk. I climbed on the small bench, opened the box on the five-drawer cabinet, and ate one piece at a time with my fingers. The corners of my mouth and hands were all white. of powder. It’s okay to eat snacks occasionally, but don’t be greedy. If you eat too much, it will have side effects.

The story I read on the Winter Solstice: The Story of the Little Eggshell

"Crack!" The little eggshell cracked, and a fluffy baby chicken came out of it.

The mother chicken takes the baby chickens for a walk. When the wind blows, the mother chicken spreads her big wings and lets the baby chickens get in quickly. This is its new home.

Little Danke began to feel lonely. "Now I am no longer the home of the chicken baby. By the way, I am going to find another baby to be its home." It rolled away with a grunt.

A bee is collecting pollen. "Baby bee, let me be your new home!" "Thank you, little Eggshell. I am not a baby bee, I am Aunt Bee. My home is on the big tree, and the round hive is my home." < /p>

An ant is dragging a bug. "Baby ant, let me be your new home!" "Thank you, little Eggshell. I am not a baby ant, I am a sister ant. My home is on the field ridge, and that little mud hole is my home." < /p>

A little frog is singing. "Baby frog, let me be your new home!" "Thank you, little Eggshell. I am not a baby frog, I am brother frog. My home is in the small pond in front."

A The little snail is taking a walk. "Baby snail, let me be your new home!" "Thank you, Little Eggshell. I have a home. Look, my home is on my back."

No one wants it, Little Eggshell. Shell began to feel sad.

At this time, a scarab beetle passed by. "That's great. My baby needs a cradle. This eggshell is just perfect for a cradle!" The scarab beetle picked up a petal and spread it inside the small eggshell. How comfortable!

"Sleep quickly, little baby." The scarab beetle sang to the baby sleeping in the eggshell cradle. Little Danke fell asleep while listening.

The moral of the story: Little Eggshell wanted to find a small animal that needed him and become a home for the little animal. He found a lot of little animals. The little animals all had their own homes. Little Eggshell became a lonely little animal. Those who are needed, fortunately, there are scarabs who have become the owners of little eggshells. When we are not needed by others, we should not be depressed and wait. There will definitely be such people. Even if they do not appear, we are our own redemption. We can live happily.