What are the legends and stories about the winter solstice?

1, Legend of Red Bean Rice: In Jiangnan Water Town, there is a custom that the whole family get together to eat red bean glutinous rice in the evening from winter to Sunday. According to legend, there was a man named Gong. His son was incompetent and evil. He died on the Winter Solstice. Become a plague ghost after death and continue to harm the people. However, this epidemic ghost is most afraid of red beans, so people cook red bean rice from winter solstice to drive away the epidemic ghost and prevent diseases.

2. Legend of Bian Que, an imperial doctor: There is also a legend that people eat jiaozi in winter, which is related to commemorating Bian Que, an imperial doctor. Bian Que? Formerly known as Qin Yueren, he was born in Bohai County (now Zhengzhen, Renqiu County, Hebei Province) in the early Warring States Period. Throughout his life, he "practiced medicine with rabbit disease and traveled all over the world", and he traveled all over Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shaanxi and other places today, enthusiastically treating the masses and becoming a famous doctor.

Legend has it that one winter, the wind was biting, the snow was falling, and the weather was particularly cold. People's ears are frozen and painful, and some are even frozen. On this day, Bian Que came to the countryside to treat the people. Seeing this situation, he felt very uncomfortable. What do we do? He teaches people to make "Quhan Joule Soup", that is, put mutton, pepper and one or more medicines for dispelling cold together in a pot, take out the mutton and medicines after cooking, chop them up, and wrap them with "Joule" and cook them with ear-like dough.

Sure enough, people ate "ear-correcting" rice and drank Quhan soup, and suddenly they were all hot, their ears were burning, and their frozen ears soon recovered. Every family is grateful to Bian Que, saying that he is a magical doctor who can get rid of the disease and regain his vitality. This day happens to be the solstice of winter. In memory of Bian Que, jiaozi will be included every winter until Sunday.