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Dumplings are the traditional food that our people love. Its method is to make the first use of flour made of thin and soft dumpling skin, and then to fresh meat, cabbage and other chopped, mixed with seasoning for stuffing, wrapped into a pot boiled to dumplings floating on the surface can be. Its characteristic is the skin thin filling tender, the taste is delicious, the shape is unique, the food is not tire.
Dumplings formerly "jiao ear", is our country Yi Sheng Zhang zhongjing first invented.
The Eastern Han Dynasty, all over the disaster is serious, many people suffering from disease. Nanyang has a famous doctor called Zhang Ji, Zhang Zhongjing, since childhood, physic, absorbing, become the founder of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Zhang Zhongjing not only skillful in medicine, what difficult and incurable diseases can Handers, and the noble medical ethics, regardless of the poor and rich, he was seriously treated, saving countless lives.

Zhang Zhongjing in Changsha as the official, often for the people in addition to disease and medicine. One year, the local plague prevailed, he was in the mouth of the Yamen pot, the drug rescue, won the love of Changsha people. Zhang Zhongjing from Changsha hometown, walked to the home Baihe shore, see many poor people endure hunger cold, ears are frozen rotten. He was very upset and determined to treat them. Zhang Zhongjing returned home, doctor, he was busy, but his heart always've the poor people with frozen rotten ears. He modeled on the way in Changsha, called the disciple in Nanyang Dong An open space on the set up a medical shed, set up a big pot, opened on the winter solstice that day, to the poor give medicine to cure injury.

Zhang Zhongjing's medicine called "Dispel cold jiao ear soup", its practice is to use mutton, pepper (non-chili) and some of the cold herbs in the pot boil, cooked and then put these things out of the cut, with the face bag into the ear-like "jiao-ear", the pot cooked after the medicine to the patients. Two ears and a bowl of soup per person. People eat the cold soup after the fever, blood smooth, two ears warming. After a while, the patient's rotten ears are good.

Zhang Zhongjing Medicine has continued to the annual Eve. One, people celebrate the new year, but also celebrate the bad ear rehabilitation, on the appearance of the Spring festival as the food, and eat in the morning. People call this food "dumpling ear", "dumpling" or partial eclipse, eat at the winter solstice and lunar, in order to commemorate Zhang Zhongjing Open Hut Medicine and cure the patient's day.

Zhang Zhongjing has been nearly 1800 years, but he folded the "cold jiao ear Soup" story has been widely circulated in the civil. Every winter solstice and Lunar New Year, people eat dumplings, in the heart still Miss Zhang Zhongjing's kindness. Today, we do not have to use jiao ear to cure frozen rotten ears, but dumplings have become the most common people, the most favorite food.

Note: In fact, Pepper originated in the Americas, in the Ming period into China, so the Eastern Han Dynasty Zhang Zhongjing never seen Chili! The pepper in the previous article should be pepper. (thank jinhuijieem#163.com for pointing out mistakes)-2005-07-07