Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional festivals - The composition on traditional culture, The Origin of jiaozi, is about 200 words.

The composition on traditional culture, The Origin of jiaozi, is about 200 words.

The annual Spring Festival is coming, which is the most grand traditional festival in China. On New Year's Eve (this year is February 1 1), the whole family get together, have a big New Year's Eve dinner, and then do it together, including jiaozi, chatting and watching TV all night. On New Year's Day (this year is February 12), after getting up in the morning, everyone wishes each other and eats jiaozi together.

As the saying goes, "It's not as delicious as jiaozi." Students and children, do you want to know the origin of jiaozi? According to legend, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhongjing, a "medical sage", served as the magistrate of Changsha, then resigned and returned to his hometown. Just in time for the winter solstice, he saw that the people in Nanyang were hungry and cold, and their ears were frostbitten. At that time, typhoid fever was prevalent and many people died. Zhang Zhongjing summed up the clinical practice of the Han Dynasty for more than 300 years, so he set up a medical shed in the local area, set up a cauldron, cooked mutton, peppers and herbs for removing cold and warming, made them into ears with flour bags, and gave them to the poor with soup and food after cooking. People eat from the solstice of winter to New Year's Eve, fighting typhoid fever and curing frozen ears. Since then, villagers and future generations have imitated it, calling it "jiaozi Ear" or "jiaozi", and some places called it "flat food" or "instant noodle jiaozi".

After gradually forming a custom, you can't help eating jiaozi on holidays. 1400 years of history has made jiaozi take root in the hearts of ordinary people. Jiaozi gradually became the spokesman of China's diet.