Winter Solstice Funny Stories

Winter solstice interesting story:

I. Winter solstice dumplings

The end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, disasters were serious everywhere, and many people suffered from diseases. Nanyang has a famous doctor called Zhang Ji, the word Zhongjing, since childhood hard to learn medical books, learn from all the strengths, become the founder of Chinese medicine. Zhang Zhongjing was not only skillful in medicine, but also had high medical ethics. He treated both the poor and the rich seriously, and saved countless lives. When Zhang Zhongjing was an official in Changsha, he often treated the people.

One year, when a plague was rampant in the area, Zhang set up a cauldron at the entrance of the government office and gave up his medicine to save people's lives, which won him the love of the people of Changsha. After Zhang Zhongjing returned home from Changsha, he walked to his hometown Baihe River. On the bank of Baihe River, he saw many poor people suffering from hunger and cold, and their ears were frozen. He felt very hard in his heart and was determined to save them. When Zhang Zhongjing returned home, there were so many people seeking medical treatment that he was very busy, but he always remembered the poor people with frozen ears in his heart.

He followed the example of Changsha, and told his disciples to set up a medical hut and a cauldron in a vacant lot in Dongguan, Nanyang, and opened the clinic on the winter solstice, giving medicine to the poor to cure their wounds.

Zhang Zhongjing's medicine was called "Cold-removing Jiao Er Tang", which was made of mutton, chili peppers and cold-removing herbs boiled in a pot, and then fished out and chopped up after cooking. People call this food "dumpling ear", "dumplings" or partial food, eaten on the winter solstice and the first day of the year to commemorate the days when Zhang Zhongjing opened his shed for medicine and cured the sick.

Two, the winter solstice dumplings

According to legend, in ancient times, there was a widow named Yu Lianxiang in the Xinghua Province, her husband died early, and she planted and picked grass alone to weave hats to raise her son Yuan Yuan study. At the age of twenty, Yuan Yuan won the Scholarship, and when he was a government official, he was so busy that he couldn't go home to save his family, so he sent half of his salary back to his mother by asking his servant, Zhang Er, to send him back. However, Zhang Er was a drunkard and gambler, and when he lost his money, he lied to Yuan Yuan every time.

One day, the emperor asked Yuan Yuan about his family history, and was so moved by his mother Lian Xiang's moral integrity that he gave Yuan Yuan a decree to build a "Chaste Place" for his mother. Yuan Yuan received the decree home, very happy. But at home for three years do not know the news of his son Lianxiang, thought his son forgot the love between mother and son. She was so angry that she hid herself in the mountains.

Yuan Yuan returned to his hometown, only to know that Zhang Er misbehaved, so he went into the mountains to find his mother. At that time, winter had arrived, the mountain wild fruits and vegetables are gone, Yuan Yuan will use the glutinous rice to make the mountain fruit mold, boiled and glued to the tree on the mountain top, so that his mother to pick food. One day, Yuan Yuan stopped by and glued the pills from the top of the mountain to the front of the alcove, trying to lure her home.

The day of the winter solstice, the mother picked to the Alcove (cuò Fujian coastal and Taiwanese people call home or house for the Alcove) before the Yuan Yuan told his mother Zhang Er misdeeds, mother and son to release the former suspicion, get together and cry. The story has been passed on from generation to generation, so there is a winter solstice to eat soup dumplings, the "reunion festival" said.

Three, soup dumplings

Pingtan, Fujian people call the winter solstice "Winter Festival", also known as "filial piety mother festival". Legend has it that in ancient times, a mountain man who went into the mountains to cut firewood was taken captive by a beast called the Mother of Fowl. The mother of the fowl knew human nature and lust, and forced the mountain people to marry her and became pregnant and gave birth to a boy. When the mother of the bird went out to pick wild fruits, the mountain people escaped from the mountain with the boy in their arms and returned home, naming their son Tianci.

The mountain dwellers did not take another wife, but raised Tin Chi and sent him to school. Tianci saw other children with their mothers, but his father only said that his mother was away on a long trip and had not yet returned. In the blink of an eye, Tian Chi reached the age of 18, high school talent, 19 years old in the lifter, 20 years old in the scholar. He was appointed to the post and returned to his hometown, and wanted to repay his mother for the love she had given him and his father for the kindness he had given him, so he talked to his father about his mother again, and he told him the truth, and persuaded him to give up the idea of looking for his mother.

Tian Chi was in a dilemma. As a scholar and an imperial official, how could he recognize a beast as his mother? He is also a member of the Chinese Communist Party, and has been a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) since its inception. As the saying goes, "A dog doesn't mind his family's poverty, and a son doesn't mind his mother's ugliness". Must be to find the mother back, Tian Chi idea has been set, then asked his father how to find his mother, his father said his mother loves to eat wild monkey persimmon (a small wild fruit), as long as the pick a few baskets of monkey persimmon from the village all the way to the mother lived in the mouth of the cave.

The mother would surely pick up monkey persimmons all the way to the village. Tian Chi did so. On the evening of the second day, the mother of the bird picked up the monkey persimmons all the way to the entrance of the village, and was caught by the guards who ambushed her.

The mother of the bird recognized the mountain people, her eyes widened in anger and she showed her teeth. Tian Chi went up to bow to his mother, the mother of the bird mouth can not say, but in his heart know that this is her son, very happy, let loose a big smile, old age and heart failure, joy and death, this day is the winter solstice. Tian Chi in honor of his mother, in the winter solstice every year to do the shape of the monkey persimmon small balls, offerings to worship his mother, and later follow the custom.

Four, Taiwan's winter solstice

Taiwan is rumored to be the winter solstice is the birthday of the cow, which has a rather interesting legend. Once upon a time there was a carpenter named Mo Dou Gong, in the village where he lived, the soil was very fertile. Farmers could just scatter rice seeds in the fields and sit back and wait for the harvest. So these farmers had nothing to do all day long, and gathered in the carpenter's store of Mr. Murdock to chat about everything.

Modu was so distracted by the noise that he could not concentrate on his work. So he told his apprentice to take a bag of sawdust that he had enchanted, and to scatter a handful of it into the farmers' fields every morning. These sawdust would turn into weeds as soon as they were sprinkled in the field.

The original intention of Mr. Murdock was that the farmers should develop the habit of working hard and hoeing their fields every day. Unexpectedly, this disciple thought it was too much trouble to spread it every day, so he dumped the whole lot of sawdust in one gulp. As a result, all the fields grew thick with weeds, and the rice withered away instead, causing the farmers to scream in agony.

When Lord Murdock saw that his disciple was in great trouble, he punished him by turning him into an ox to help the farmers get rid of the weeds. When Lord Murdock's disciple turned into an ox, his inertia remained the same. When his master asked him to plow the fields, he came up with a lot of excuses: I am too tired today, I have a cold today, or you haven't fed me yet, how can I work for you?

It even made a pact with its master that it would be fed red turtle kuey teow or soup dumplings every time it traveled while plowing the fields, or else it would have to stop plowing in protest. When the Buddha in heaven saw how arrogant this ox was, he put a nail in its jaw so that it could no longer open its mouth to complain.

Because it liked to eat soup dumplings, people chose the day of the winter solstice as its birthday. In addition to feeding it soup dumplings, a round peg was glued to the cow's horn and forehead. At the same time, in order to thank the ox for its hard work throughout the year, the winter solstice day must let it rest comfortably for a day.

Fifth, the winter solstice dog meat

The custom of eating dog meat on the winter solstice is said to have begun in the Han Dynasty. According to legend, Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty, ate dog meat cooked by Fan Kuai on the winter solstice, and found the flavor particularly delicious and praised it. Since then, the custom of eating dog meat on the winter solstice has been formed in folklore. Now people have in the winter solstice this day, eat dog meat, mutton and a variety of tonic food, in order to have a good omen in the coming year.