The invention of dumplings

Dumplings are a traditional food that Chinese people love. The method is to use flour to make a thin and soft dumpling skin, then chopped with fresh meat, cabbage, etc., mixed with seasoning as the filling, wrapped into a pot and then boiled to the dumplings floating on the water. It is characterized by a tender skin, delicious taste, unique shape, and not annoying.
Dumplings, formerly known as jiaoer, were first invented by Zhang Zhongjing, the medical doctor in China.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, disasters in various regions were serious, and many people suffered from diseases. Nanyang has a famous doctor named Zhang Ji, Zhong Jing, who has learned medical books since childhood and has become the founder of traditional Chinese medicine. Zhang Zhongjing is not only skillful in medicine, but also has high medical ethics. Regardless of the poor and the rich, he has earnestly cured the disease and saved countless lives.

When Zhang Zhongjing was an official officer in Changsha, he often got rid of the disease. One year, the local plague was prevalent. He built a pot at the entrance of the city to save lives, which won the love of the people in Changsha. After returning from Changsha, Zhang Zhongjing went to the bank of Baihe, his hometown, and saw many poor people suffer from hunger and freezing his ears. He was very upset and determined to treat them. When Zhang Zhongjing returned home, he had a lot of medical practitioners. He was too busy, but he always remembered the poor people who had bad ears. He modeled the solution in Changsha and asked his disciples to set up a medical tent on an open space in the east Guan district of Nanyang, set up a big pot, and set up a medicine to cure the injury to the poor on the day of the winter solstice.

The name of Zhang Zhongjing's medicine is "quhan jiaoer Tang". It uses mutton, Pepper (non-pepper injection) and some herbs to boil in the pot, after the cooking, we can make these things and chopped them. We can use a leather bag as an ear-like "ear" and cook them in a pot and then give them to the patients who want to take the medicine. Each person has two ears and one bowl of soup. People get hot and have smooth blood, and their ears are warm after eating quhan Tang. After eating for a while, the patient's bad ears will be good.

Zhang zhongjingshe continued to take medicine until the 20th of the year. On the first day of the year, people celebrate the New Year, and celebrate the restoration of bad ears. They make New Year's food in the form of a charming ear and eat it on the first morning. People refer to this food as "dumplings", "dumplings" or partial meals. They eat it on the winter solstice and the first day of the year to commemorate the days when Zhang Zhongjing opened the shed and cured the patients.

Zhang Zhongjing has been around for nearly 1800 years, but his story of turning "quhan jiaoer Tang" has been widely spread in the public. On the winter solstice and New Year's Day, people still remember the kindness of Zhang Zhongjing when eating dumplings. Today, we don't need to use Jiaojiao to cure Frozen ears, but dumplings have become the most common and favorite food for people.

Note: In fact, chilies originated in America and were introduced into China during the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, Zhang Zhongjing never saw chilies in the Eastern Han Dynasty! In the previous article, the chilies should be pepper. (Thanks to jinhuijieem # 163.com for the error )-