Legendary Stories of Winter Solstice

Winter Solstice Legends

On the winter solstice, the sun is low and the days are short, but meteorologically, the temperature is not the lowest. In fact, due to the surface of the earth is still "heat", before the winter solstice is usually not very cold, the real cold in the winter solstice after. The following is for you to organize the winter solstice legend story, for your reference, welcome to browse!

Winter Solstice Legends Part 1

Winter Solstice Legends One

In the water towns of Jiangnan, there is a winter solstice night the whole family gathered together to *** eat adzuki beans sticky rice custom. According to legend, there is a person called **** Gong's, his son is not talented, evil, died on the day of the winter solstice, after death into the epidemic ghost, continue to brutalize the people. However, the ghost of the epidemic is afraid of red beans, so people cook and eat red beans rice on the day of the winter solstice, to avoid the ghost of the epidemic, disaster prevention and relief.

Winter Solstice Legends

In the past, the old Beijing has "winter solstice wontons summer solstice noodles". According to legend, during the Han Dynasty, the Huns in the north often harassed the border, and the people had no peace. At that time, there were two leaders of the Hun tribe, the Huns and the Tuns, who were very cruel. The people hated them so much that they wrapped them into horns with meat and took the sound of "Hun" and "Tun" and called them "Hundun". Hate to eat, and seek to quell the war, can live in peace. Because the first made of wontons is in the winter solstice this day, in the winter solstice this day every family to eat wontons.

Winter Solstice Legends and Stories III

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. Nowadays, people have to eat dog meat, mutton and all kinds of nourishing food on the winter solstice, in order to have a good omen in the coming year.

Winter Solstice Legends and Stories Part 2

Winter Solstice Dumpling Story

Every year on the winter solstice of the Lunar Calendar, no matter how rich or poor, dumplings are an essential holiday meal. Proverb: October 1, the winter solstice to, families eat dumplings. This custom is left behind in honor of Zhang Zhongjing, the sage of medicine, who gave medicine on the winter solstice.

Zhang Zhongjing is Nanyang Wudong people, he wrote "Typhoid Miscellaneous Diseases", the collection of medical practitioners of the great success, by successive generations of doctors as a classic. Zhang Zhongjing's famous saying: "If you go in, you can save the world; if you go out, you can save the people; if you can't be a good prime minister, you should be a good doctor". During the Eastern Han Dynasty, he was the governor of Changsha and practiced medicine in the lobby. Later, he resigned from his post and returned to his hometown to cure his neighbors. When he returned to his hometown, it was winter. He saw that his neighbors on both sides of the Baihe River were yellow and thin, starving and cold, and many people's ears were frozen. He asked his disciples to set up a medical hut in Dongguan, Nanyang, and set up a cauldron to cure frostbite on the winter solstice.

He put lamb, chili peppers and some cold-expelling herbs in a pot of boiling, and then the lamb, the drugs out of the chopped, with the bread into an ear-like ear, boiled, distributed to the people who came to seek medicine each two ears, a big bowl of broth. People ate the ear, drank the cold soup, warm body, two ears heat, frostbitten ears are cured. Later people learned the appearance of the ear, wrapped into food, also known as dumplings or flat food.

Winter solstice to eat dumplings, is not to forget the medical saint Zhang Zhongjing to get rid of cold Jiao ear soup grace. To this day, there is a folk song in Nanyang that says if you don't eat dumplings on the winter solstice, you will freeze your ears off and no one will take care of you.

What are the ancient winter solstice entertainment customs?

Winter solstice hanging charcoal

China's forefathers were very good at observing the phenomenon of nature, the winter solstice "hanging charcoal" custom is very interesting. Three days before the winter solstice, people hanging earth, charcoal in the balance of the two ends of the wooden pole, so that the two sides of the weight just balance. On the winter solstice, when Yang Qi arrives, the charcoal side will be heavy, while on the summer solstice, when Yin Qi arrives, the earth will be heavy. Obviously, the principle of this simple little experiment lies in whether the objects on either side absorb water or not.

Phragmites

"Phragmites" is another interesting little experiment, which involves the knowledge of ancient music in China. The ancients used the ash of Phragmites to divine the climate, based on the "twelve laws" of Chinese music theory.

People burned reed film into ash, placed in the pipe, put in a secret room, to account for the climate. A section of the climate to, a law pipe in the reed ash that is flying out, showing that the festival has arrived. According to the experience of the ancients, the winter solstice, reed ash from the clock should fly out of the tube, which is the way people judge the arrival of the festival.

The so-called twelve laws, that is, an octave is divided into twelve semitones. If we assume that the yellow bell is the "C" note on the piano, the other rhythms are in order of semitone upwards, which are the yellow bell, the dalu, the taiju, the jiezhong, the gushu, the zhonglue, the fringe, the linzhong, the nanlue, the yizhe, the wuyun, and the yingzhong.

Jiu Jiu Song

Jiu Jiu Song is a kind of seasonal folk song. In the old days, when winter came, children would often sing such a song: "One nine, two nine, do not go out, three nine, four nine, walk on the ice, five nine, six nine, along the river to see the willow, seven nine, the river is open _ geese, nine nine, plus nine, the plow oxen all over the place." This is the most popular almost everywhere in our country nine nine song, also known as the word nine nine, the full name is "nine nine cold song".

According to China's traditional calendar, counting from the day after the winter solstice, every nine days for a period of time, this period of time is with the summer "Fu" as opposed to "nine". "Nine "*** have nine periods, the first nine days called one nine, followed by two nine, three nine, ......, has been counted to nine after the weather is warm, the earth will be spring season.

Nine days to eliminate cold song in most parts of the country have been circulating, especially in the north for more, the northern winter cold, so nine days to eliminate cold song is not only the name of the real match, and there is a practical existence of the significance of the outside of the north, due to the climate of cold and warmth is not the same, the people create a point of view of the differences, so all over the nine days of the song is also some difference.

Nine days after the cold map

Winter solstice folk have posted painted "nine nine cold map" custom, the cold map is recorded in the winter solstice into the nine after the weather is cloudy and clear, people use this to divine the next year of abundance and yawns.

There are many forms of cold elimination charts. Simple ` is to draw vertical and horizontal nine columns of lattice, the middle of each grid and then painted money shape, *** got eighty-one money, every day, painted a money, painted method is "on the cloudy and clear, left wind and right rain, snow," folk songs also said: "on the cloudy and clear snow, left wind and right rain to be clear, nine nine hundred and eighty-one full point all, the spring back to the earth, the grass is green. The grass will be green in spring." Or choose nine nine-painted words to form a sentence and put it in the grid, which is also the day paint a stroke. The general choice of nine characters in a sentence is "Ting (pavilion) in front of the willow to wait for the spring breeze".

In addition to the above two, there is a more "elegant figure", is a branch of the painting of vegetarian plum, plum petals *** counting eighty-one, dyeing a petal every day, are dyed after the end of the nine, the spring is approaching. More charming is the women's dawn makeup dyeing plum. From the plum and apricot, from winter to spring, the change of seasons and the beautiful people make-up rouge connection, really make people scream.

The custom of drawing a picture of the cold is simple, but if it is cleverly brewed, then it has a special flavor, and often people put a variety of feelings in it.

The moral of eating dumplings on the winter solstice

Moral of the winter solstice is not a bowl of dumplings, freezing off the ears of no one to take care of.

Proverb: October 1, the winter solstice, families eat dumplings. This custom is said to be left behind by commemorating the winter solstice of the medical saint Zhang Zhongjing, who shed his medicine. Therefore, in the north of China, on the winter solstice of the lunar calendar, no matter rich or poor, dumplings have become an indispensable holiday meal.

Allegory 2: Winter solstice, eat dumplings, reunion.

In some places, on the winter solstice, the family will be busy preparing all kinds of dumpling skins and fillings, and then the family will sit together to make dumplings, eat dumplings, and spend the winter solstice together. In addition to eating dumplings in the north, there is also the custom of eating soup dumplings in the south, which means, fullness, reunion.

Winter Solstice Legends and Stories Part 3

Winter Solstice Dumplings is a Han Chinese custom, popular in most parts of the country, referring to the winter solstice to eat dumplings or wontons. Pan Rong ah (qing) "empire capital years and times record wins": "the day before the winter night, the ritual of ancestral soup and rice, to fine meat filling package angle dedication. Proverbs say 'winter solstice wontons summer solstice noodles' of the legacy of meaning.

One of the legends: Nvwa created man

In the Huai Chuan area, there is a legend. In the ancient times, Nüwa created man out of clay on Mount Shennong. In the winter, it was freezing cold, and the ears of the clay figures made by Nüwa were frozen off, so Nüwa was very anxious. So, Nuwa sewed the ears of the clay figures one by one with a needle and thread. One day, Nuwa sewed the ear of a mudman, let the mudman bite the remaining thread with his mouth, turned to look for scissors, and when she returned to the mudman with the scissors in her hand, a good idea was instantly born in her mind.

She used a thread, one end of which was tied to the mudman's ear, and one end of which she let the mudman bite tightly in his mouth, so that the mudman's ear would not be frozen off. Later, when people were afraid of freezing off their ears on the winter solstice, they also used a thread to tie one end of the ear and bite the other end in their mouths. As time went by, the biting of the thread turned into eating dumplings, which resembled the shape of an ear. The custom of eating dumplings on the winter solstice spread in the Huai Chuan area and continues to this day.

Legend No. 2: In honor of Bianqi

There is another legend of eating dumplings on the winter solstice, which is related to the honor of Bianqi, the god of medicine. Magpie, formerly known as Qin Yue people, the early years of the Warring States period Qi Bohai County Caozhou (now Renqiu County, Hebei Province, Caozhou Town) people. He traveled all over Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shaanxi and other places in his life, passionately treating people's illnesses and becoming a famous doctor. Legend has it that one winter, the wind was bone-chilling, snowflakes were flying, and the weather was exceptionally cold. People's ears froze and hurt, and some of them even froze and rotted.

This day the magpie came to the countryside for the people to heal, see this situation, the heart is difficult. The first time I saw it, it was a very good thing that it was a very good thing. He taught people to simmer "to get rid of the cold ear soup", that is, the mutton, chili and some of the cold herbs together in a pot to cook, after cooking the mutton and drugs out of the chopped, wrapped in dough into an ear like "corrective ear" to do cooked to eat. Sure enough, people ate the "Jiao Er" rice, drank the soup to get rid of the cold, and immediately warmed up, the two ears were hot, and the frozen ears soon healed. Every family was grateful to the magpie, saying that he was a miraculous doctor who was able to cure the sick and bring them back to life with his miraculous hands. This day was the winter solstice festival. From then on, in order to commemorate Bian Magpie, dumplings were made and eaten on the winter solstice every year.

Legend No. 3: In Memory of Zhang Zhongjing, the Sage of Nanyang

According to legend, Zhang Zhongjing, the Sage of Nanyang, was an official in Changsha, and he returned to his hometown in the snowy winter, with the cold winds piercing his bones. He saw the townspeople on both sides of the White River in Nanyang were not covered with clothes, and many people's ears were frostbitten, and his heart was very sad, so he asked his disciples to set up a medical hut on the east side of the Nanyang Guan Dong, and used lamb, chili peppers, and some cold-expelling herbs to place a pot of boiled, and then fished it out to chop it up.

Wrapped in dough to look like an ear, and then put down the pot to cook, made into a drug called "cold-expelling ear soup" alms to the people to eat. After serving, the folks' ears were cured. Later, every winter solstice people will imitate to do to eat, so the formation of "pinch frozen ears" this custom. Later, people called it "dumplings, and some called it "flat food" and "hot noodle dumplings", and people also have legend eaten the winter solstice dumplings do not freeze.

Winter Solstice Legends and Stories Part 4

Winter Solstice, is a very important festival in the Chinese lunar calendar, but also a traditional festival of the Chinese nation, the winter solstice is commonly known as the "winter festival", "long solstice festival", "sub year" and so on. "and so on, as early as two thousand five hundred years ago in the Spring and Autumn Period, China has used the earth to observe the sun, determined the winter solstice, it is the twenty-four solar terms in the earliest formulation of a time in the annual solar calendar between December 21 and 23, this day is the northern hemisphere throughout the year in the day the shortest day, the night is the longest day; most of the northern part of China in this day and eat dumplings, The custom of eating soup dumplings in the south, the proverb: winter solstice to, eat dumplings, and poems and movies about the festival.

According to the records of the Zhou Dynasty, the folk have used the winter solstice to the outskirts of the activities of the day of sacrifice, and because the first month of the weekly calendar for the November of the summer calendar, therefore, the first month of the Zhou Dynasty is equal to our current November, so the worship of the year and congratulate the winter and there is no difference, has been to the Han Emperor Wu Di after the adoption of the summer calendar, only the first month and the solstices are separated, so it can be said that: "Winter Festival" is since the Han Dynasty, after the winter solstice. "is only since the Han Dynasty, flourished in the Tang and Song dynasties, and continues to this day. "Although the winter solstice is not a yearly festival, people used to see it as the demarcation point of the 'festival year'" (Zaijingtang ji - Fengshi ji). Chen Zhitou's poem "Soup Dumplings" reflects the production of soup dumplings on the winter solstice and people's sense of festivity. The poem says: "The balls are round like dragon's eyes, and it takes a lot of effort to eat them. Mixing clouds and slowly scooping water from a silver jar, tumbling snow and gently touching the skin of a jade palm. Push it into the soup pot to drive the white duck, and fish it into the sugar bowl to roll the yellow beads. Every year at the winter solstice, every family cooks it, and every year it is added to the list."

"Qingjiazhu" even has "winter solstice is as big as the year" said. This shows that the ancients attached great importance to the winter solstice. It is believed that the winter solstice is a natural transformation of yin and yang, a blessing from heaven. The Han Dynasty to the winter solstice for the "Winter Festival", the government should be held to congratulate the ceremony known as "He winter", routine vacation. The Book of the Later Han Dynasty has this record: "Before and after the winter solstice, the gentleman is in peace and quiet, all the officials are not listening to the government, choose the auspicious moment and then save the matter." So this day, the court up and down to take a vacation, the army on standby, the border closed, business travel stops, friends and relatives with food to give each other, visit each other, happy to have a "quiet body" holiday.

Tang, Song period, the winter solstice is the day of sacrifice to the ancestors, the emperor on this day to the outskirts of the ceremony held in the sky, the people on this day to the parents to worship, and now there are still some places in the winter solstice this day to celebrate.

Because of the different calendars, the folk have always inherited the lunar calendar, that after the winter solstice is the beginning of another year (only after eating a round child will be more than a year of the said) This is why the winter solstice in the folk will be so valued, but such a wrong inheritance, so that the folk's concepts and the current choice of date on the study of summer calendars used in the calendar there is a great discrepancy between such misconceptions should be corrected to the correct calendar inheritance is right. This wrong concept should be corrected, and the correct calendar is passed on to the right.

Winter Solstice Legends and Stories Part 5

Winter Solstice, is a very important festival in China's lunar calendar, but also a traditional festival. As the saying goes, "the winter solstice is as big as the year". This day is the shortest day and the longest night. There is also a saying in our hometown that if it rains on the winter solstice, then the New Year will be eyewitness, and on the contrary, if it is sunny on the east solstice, then it will rain or snow on the New Year.

Today is the custom of eating dumplings in every household, and our family is the same. Early in the morning, my mom went to the grocery store to buy fresh meat and some vegetables, and some ingredients for dumplings. Mom came home to the flour and good, and then the meat and vegetables are chopped up, adjusted the dumpling filling, began to roll the dumpling skin, I especially like to roll the dumpling skin, because the skin in the hand like playdough can do a variety of small animals, mom wrapped the dumplings especially good-looking, one wrapped very full like a golden dollar, dad wrapped is also good, but that's how I wrapped did not have a parent wrapped so good-looking, the look is particularly ugly, mom also said that the dumplings are not as good, but I have a good look, the way I wrapped, and the way I wrapped is not as good, and the way I wrapped is very good. The way the ugly, mom also said that the package is so ugly wait for the next boiled are for you to eat, I heard this on the flat mouth and said: "Hum, on not."

At noon, the dumplings began to cook, dumplings in the pot boiled for a while, the smell came out, I really want to sneak to eat a it! After a while, the dumplings finally came out of the pot, I like a foot of small greedy cat like can not wait to eat a bite, can be really delicious. Mom said humorously, "If you eat the dumplings, you won't freeze your ears off when it gets cold." Dad said there was another story about eating dumplings on the winter solstice, in honor of Zhang Zhongjing, the sage of medicine." I asked why we should honor him. Dad then told me the story of Zhang Zhongjing.

At that time, the world was in turmoil, thieves rose up everywhere, the smoke of war filled the air, the people were suffering, the people did not want to live. Zhang Zhongjing returned to his hometown, it is winter, a large number of starving people's ears are frozen and cracked, ulcerated and inflamed, Zhang Zhongjing saw the heart is very uncomfortable, and thought of a way, with fresh mutton and red chili peppers and a number of medicinal herbs into a cauldron carefully simmered, and then the boiled ingredients fish up and chopped up, crushed into a puree, wrapped in dough into an ear-shaped, which is today's dumplings, boiled dumplings and the soup aroma of ten miles, Zhang Zhongjing! The cooked dumplings and the soup smelled good for ten miles, and Zhang Zhongjing gave the cooked dumplings to the starving people. A few days later, the starving people's frozen ears were healed by eating the dumplings. This soup was also called "cold-expelling soup". Since then, the custom of eating dumplings at the winter solstice has been established in honor of Zhang Zhongjing. There is still a saying, "If you don't eat dumplings at the winter solstice, you will freeze your ears off."

The dumplings are almost finished, and my father's story is finished, I suddenly realized that it is so! The first thing I've learned is that I'm not a big fan of the idea, but I'm a big fan of the idea that I'm not a big fan of the idea. This day really made me grow a lot of knowledge. I'm so happy!

Winter Solstice Legends Part 6

In the water towns of Jiangnan, there is a winter solstice night the whole family gathered *** eat red beans and glutinous rice custom. According to legend, there is a person called **** Gong's, his son is not talented, evil, died on the day of the winter solstice, after death into an epidemic ghost, continue to brutalize the people. However, this epidemic ghost is most afraid of adzuki beans, so people cook and eat adzuki beans rice on the day of the winter solstice.

China's ancient times, the winter solstice is treated as a large festival, not only the "winter solstice is as big as the year", but also the custom of celebrating the winter solstice. In addition to offering sacrifices to the ancestors, the northern region has the custom of slaughtering sheep, eating dumplings and eating wontons on the winter solstice, while the southern region has the habit of eating winter solstice rice balls and winter solstice long thread noodles.

Nanyang winter solstice - not end of the bowl of dumplings, freezing off the ears of no one care

Every year on the winter solstice of the lunar calendar, regardless of the rich and the poor, dumplings are essential to the holiday meal. The proverb says: "October 1, the winter solstice to, every family to eat dumplings." This custom is left behind in honor of Zhang Zhongjing, the "Sage of Medicine", who gave medicine on the winter solstice.

Suzhou people on the winter solstice - eat wontons to remember Xishi

Suzhou still have the "winter solstice as big as the year" of the legacy of "round night dinner", "not only sumptuous, each of the round night dinner", "the winter solstice", "the winter solstice", "the winter solstice", "the winter solstice". "The first time I saw this, I had to go back to the house to get the money to pay for it. It is said that Suzhou people also have the custom of eating wontons on the winter solstice. Legend has it that at a banquet during the Spring and Autumn Festival of Wu and Yue, the king of Wu, who was tired of eating delicacies from the mountains and the sea, did not have an appetite, and the beautiful Xi Shi went into the imperial kitchen and wrapped up a kind of dustpan-type snacks and offered them to the king of Wu. The king of Wu ate a big bowl, and asked, "What kind of dim sum is this, so delicious?" Xi Shi thought, "This dim king is muddleheaded and chaotic, so she casually answered, "Chaos." In honor of Xishi's wisdom and creativity, Suzhou people made it a winter solstice delicacy.

Ningxia - winter solstice to eat "mind"

Yinchuan people's winter solstice is also called the Ghost Festival, the winter solstice this day to drink flour soup, eat mutton flour soup dumplings. This day's mutton noodle soup has an odd name - "mind". Generally, when the dumplings are ready, the first bowl of dumplings will be offered up, and a bowl of dumplings will be served to the neighbors. If you can't eat the dumplings in the morning, you can buy a cake with three points and a fennel cake and eat it with the noodle soup.

Fujian - winter solstice "love to eat meatballs soup, looking forward to ah day is not light"

"Winter solstice frost, the moon mother light; cypress leaves red, meatballs hold. In Fujian, the winter solstice has the folk custom of offering cooked "sweet pills" to the ancestors. Winter solstice night is the longest, and the children love to eat "pill soup", can not sleep, before dawn, noisy mother to eat "pill soup". The housewife poured the "balls" into the pot, and ginger, sugar (ginger, sugar can dispel cold stomach) with water to cook into a fragrant, sweet, sticky, hot "sweet balls soup. After offering it to the ancestors, the whole family will eat it.

The Story of the Winter Solstice

The winter solstice is the twenty-second of the twenty-four solar terms.

The winter solstice is the day with the longest night and shortest day in the northern hemisphere. Thereafter until the summer solstice of the next year, the average daily growth of daytime for more than ninety seconds. Farmer's proverbs say: "Eat the winter solstice rice, a day long line", "after the winter solstice, long a needle slash". Tang Miscellany" records: "Tang Palace to female workers premiere the length of the shadow of the sun, after the winter solstice, the sundial gradually longer than the daily increase of a line of work." That is to say, because the day is longer than a line, the female workers to undertake the work should also be increased accordingly a line.

Winter solstice, the beginning of winter in the northern hemisphere. China's lunar calendar, since the winter solstice, every nine days for nine, to three nine coldest. After that, it gradually turns warm. Winter nine nine song" said: "one nine two nine not out, three nine four nine ice walk, five nine six nine along the river to see the willow, seven nine river open, eight nine geese, nine nine plus one nine, all over the plowing oxen go." "Nine nine song" is much the same everywhere, Shaanxi "nine nine song" the first half of the cut for: "nine nine two nine, closed door copy hand, three nine four nine, freezing old dog".

Winter solstice, a grand Chinese folk festival. Ancient people had the same view with the Spring Festival. To this day, there is still a "small year". Lu You said in the "Notes on the Laozi An": "The day before the winter solstice in Tang Dynasty is also called New Year's Eve".

Shaanxi folk, more in the winter solstice to eat dumplings or wonton custom. People say: "Eat dumplings on the winter solstice, do not freeze the ears". It is thought to be a kind of care for people on their own, indicating that when this cold winter comes, we should pay attention to add clothes and food to avoid hunger and cold invasion. Since people and ghosts, there is a custom of sending cold clothes and dumplings and wontons to ghosts. In short, it is an activity of sending warmth, not only to people, but also to ghosts, with great compassion.

Heyang County, Shaanxi Province, often have to eat wontons on New Year's Day, especially on the winter solstice, the county's families pack wontons, eat wontons. It is a kind of wontons with soup, that is, wontons and made bashfulness together, a bowl to everyone to eat. The first four bowls are dedicated to the ancestors. But also to the door, the head of the alley, down the slope, crossroads, said to give the ghosts to eat. This wonton, living people eat themselves, not forgetting to give the ancestors to eat, but also to the unknown ghosts that wild ghosts to eat, yang yin yang, everyone **** eat, winter is coming, everyone warm. Heyang people on the winter solstice to eat wontons extremely important, said the day ate wontons, a winter without freezing. If someone is working in the county, the family will have to leave a bowl, and so he came back to eat.

Similar customs, in the neighboring Chengcheng County also have. For some time, Heyang people were jokingly called "Heyang ghosts", there is a story to illustrate its origin: the previous Heyang people are poor, many of them to Chengcheng County coal mine to pull charcoal to sell, earn a little money. Even the winter solstice such a big day can not go home to rest. Chengcheng people also Xing in the winter solstice night to send some food to the ghosts, but not wontons, is dumplings. At that time, Chengcheng people also poor, winter solstice, many men can not go home, to the ghosts of the task of sending wontons by women to complete. Most of the women were too timid to go out and deliver the wontons, so they passed them out from under the doorway and let the ghosts eat them. At this time, a man from Heyang happened to pass by, dark and windy, cold and hungry, suddenly saw a bowl of steaming dumplings, how not to eat! Eat a bowl, walk forward, and see a door also has a bowl of wontons, of course, and then eat, and so, even ate half an alley. Finally discovered, the woman in the door exclaimed, "Which way the ghost?" The man outside the door replied, "The ghost of He Yang!"

There is an idiom: "A fire at the city gates is a calamity for the fish in the pond." But this day is different, this day is: the winter solstice on earth, the zephyr and the swimming ghosts.

The winter solstice is the advent of winter, the weather is getting colder day by day, but there are many stories of human warmth, can be said to be due to people and ghosts, from cold to warm.

Winter Solstice Legends and Stories Part 7

People know that most people in the north love to eat dumplings, especially on the winter solstice day of the lunar calendar must eat, the legend has it that this day does not eat dumplings will be frozen off the ears. The custom of winter solstice dumplings, Nanyang, Dengzhou area, circulating medical saint Zhang Zhongjing's moving story.

Zhang Zhongjing was a native of Nanyang, Dengzhou (now Rangdong Town), and served as a governor of Changsha during the Eastern Han Dynasty. One year back to his hometown to pay homage to his ancestors, to the north on the road, see many people ear ulceration water, or no ear, he felt very strange, to find someone to ask to know is frozen rotten. It turns out that the north of a winter snowfall, often in one night, goose feather snow down the ditch full of river leveling, will be buried half of the house, windows and doors are blocked by snow. Every day on the big freeze, river puddles and ponds are icy, even the house of ceramic water tank, are frozen for days into the ice was broken. People's hands and feet were baked and warmed all day long, not to mention the ears that were flopping outside! From the swelling pain to the hot itchy unbearable, hand a grasp will be festering running water, a long time will be all rotten.

Concerned about the people's plight of Zhang Zhongjing see in the eyes, anxious in the heart, back to his hometown to teach people to do medicinal food to eat, that is, the lamb blended with white pepper, angelica, fennel, cinnamon and other traditional Chinese medicines, cooked in a pot and fished out the lamb, plus onions, ginger, garlic, radish and other chopped up and sprinkled with oil, salt, chili pepper or paste pepper, wrapped in a sheet of noodles into a pimple, boiled with the soup with the pimple to eat when it's hot, eat a few times to sweat all over the body! I've been sweating a lot, and my hands and feet will be fine.

Zhang Zhongjing at home is the medicine to get rid of the disease of the famous doctor, he said that this side of the people absolutely believe that most of the townspeople are poor, the winter only eat two meals a day, which still have the money to buy medicine to cut lamb wow! So when he asked the townspeople about the effect, many people shook their heads and sighed, and Zhang Zhongjing understood what they meant.

Stopped two days, the townspeople saw the Zhang family in the yard put up a large mat shed, laying on the big pot stove, thought his family to do something happy, after inquiring only to know, Zhang Zhongjing decided to shed their own soup, cure the townspeople's frozen hands and feet and ears. At first there were people who didn't believe it, but then they saw the announcement and realized it was true. I saw a few sheep killed in the yard, a group of people were busy, rolling out the noodles, wrapping the lumps, peeling the sheep, burning the fire, breaking the firewood, busy, almost ready to cook, someone shouted in the village: "Please freeze the hands, feet and ears of the townspeople, to the Zhang House to drink cold-curing Ear Soup! People took bowls and chopsticks and sat under the mat shed, eating hot and sweaty. After three days of eating, the frozen parts really got better.

The news spread ten, ten spread a hundred, a few days will be like the wings, spread all over the Dengzhou and the counties and townships next to it, to eat more and more people to eat medicinal food, day and night, one pot after another pot to do less than. It did not take long to spread around the circle of a hundred miles, even east of Nanyang people know, some rode the animals to come, some came in an oxcart, some stepped on the mud, snow and ice to drink the soup, we all call this food for the "glue ear".

Seeing that people run to Neiyang in the long distance, the older and children are very inconvenient, Zhang Zhongjing secretly pondered, and then choose a suitable place for the people to shed cold gelatin ear soup, and then Zhang Zhongjing that the city of Nanyang Dongguan suitable, near the horse and cart avenue and shipping terminals, the transportation of people from afar is convenient, and the snowy and icy weather is also less frost. So it is now in the Shrine of the Sage of Medicine there, set up shed base stove support on the cauldron, shed up the cold gel ear soup, but also for the people to see a doctor to diagnose the pulse treatment of miscellaneous diseases. Healed a lot of difficult and serious diseases, sensational hundreds of miles around.

Zhang Zhongjing is in the winter solstice day began to give cold gel ear soup, "gel ear" and "dumplings" resonance, so the later people in order to commemorate him, in the winter solstice every year on this day to wrap the dumplings to eat, has been passed down to the present.

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