Winter Solstice Short Story

The short short story of winter solstice is as follows:

In Huai Chuan area, there is a legend of eating dumplings at winter solstice. In ancient times, Nuwa dug up the earth at Shennong Mountain to create man. In winter, when it was freezing cold, the ears of the clay figures Nuwa had pinched were frozen off, and Nuwa 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 ears of a mudman, let the remaining threads for the mudman to bite with his mouth, and turned to look for scissors. When she returned to the mudman with the scissors in 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 the other end of which the mudman clenched in his mouth, so that the mudman's ear would not be frozen off. Later, on the winter solstice, when people were afraid of freezing off their ears, they also used a piece of thread with one end tied to their ears and one end bitten into 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 Huaichuan area and continues to this day.

Introduction of traditional food on the winter solstice

1, eating dumplings: In many areas of the north of China, there is a custom of eating dumplings on the winter solstice every year. Because dumplings have the meaning of "eliminating cold", the folk still circulate the folk proverb "winter solstice is not end of the bowl of dumplings, freezing off the ears of no one cares".

2, brewing rice wine: traditional Gusu people will drink winter wine on the night of the winter solstice, which is made from glutinous rice or yellow rice with the addition of osmanthus flowers.

3, eat dumplings: in Jiangnan eat dumplings is the traditional custom of the winter solstice, "round" means "reunion" "complete", winter solstice eat dumplings is also called "winter solstice". "Winter Solstice" folk have "eaten dumplings a year old said".

4, eat barbecued pork and ginger rice:? Some places in the south on the winter solstice to eat burnt salami, sun-dried burnt salami has become an indispensable good symbolism on the table of the two sides of a dish to add years. Winter solstice, Wuchuan people have winter solstice "eat ginger rice" custom.