Today's winter solstice, it's time to eat dumplings!

Today, the winter solstice. "October one, the winter solstice, every household to eat dumplings." ”。 In my gourmet country, there are different customs around this day, but most places have the habit of eating dumplings on the winter solstice. After thousands of years of development, the winter solstice has formed a unique seasonal food culture. Every day, whether rich or poor, dumplings are indispensable to the holiday rice. This custom, is due to commemorate the "Yi Sheng" Zhang Zhongjing Winter medicine left.

Zhang Zhongjing is Nanyang Lancelot East people, with the "Typhoid Miscellaneous Diseases Theory", set the great medical home, by the medical people of all dynasties as a classic. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, he was a former Changsha prefecture, visiting the disease and practicing medicine in the lobby. After resolutely resign back home, for neighbors cure. It is winter when it is returning home. He saw the people on both sides of the White River Sallow, cold and hungry, many of the ears are frozen rotten. Then let his disciples in Nanyang Dong Guan set up a medical shed, a big pot, in the winter solstice "dispel cold jiao tang" cure frostbite. He put mutton, chili and some cold medicinal herbs in the pot boil, and then the lamb, medicine to remove the chopped, with bread into ear-like "jiao ear", cooked, divided to seek medicine each person two "jiao ear", a large bowl of broth. People eat "jiao ear", drank "dispel cold soup", all over warm, two ears fever, frostbite ears are cured. Later generations learned the appearance of "Jiao er", wrapped into food, also called "dumplings" or "flat food."

Winter solstice eat dumplings, is not forgotten "Yi Sheng" Zhang zhongjing "dispel cold jiao tang" of the grace, but also people on a life of peace, no disease and a good expectation of disaster.

Shang's classmates, eat more dumplings today. The body is the capital of revolution, the body is not good all is useless, in the winter solstice this day to eat dumplings, bless their safe, life smoothly.

Today's winter solstice, it's time to eat dumplings!