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When to eat jiaozi without freezing your ears

Beginning of winter doesn't freeze his ears when he eats jiaozi.

The rule in beginning of winter is to eat jiaozi, because jiaozi looks like an ear. People think that if you eat them, your ears will not get cold in winter. Beginning of winter didn't perform well in jiaozi Bowl, and nobody cared whether his ears were frozen. "jiaozi" and "rubber ears" are homophonic, so there is a saying that eating jiaozi can stick to the ears. Some people say that jiaozi is shaped like an ear, so it is said that if you don't eat jiaozi on the solstice in winter, your ears will freeze.

Eat jiaozi on the solstice in winter.

The winter solstice is a very important solar term in China. The winter solstice festival is one of the traditional festivals of the Han nationality, which originated in the Han Dynasty and flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties. The winter solstice is commonly known as "Winter Festival", "Dragon Solstice Festival" and "Asian New Year Festival". As early as 2500 years ago, during the Spring and Autumn Period, China observed the sun with the soil return, and determined the winter solstice.

It is the earliest solar term among the 24 solar terms, and the time is between 65438+February 265438+February 0-23. It is the solar term with the shortest day and the longest night in the northern hemisphere. On the solstice of winter, there are different customs in the north and south of China. Jiaozi is eaten in most areas in the north, and glutinous rice balls are eaten in the south. There is also a proverb: When winter solstice comes, eat jiaozi, as well as poems and film and television works about this solar term.

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