Who is the winter that commemorates the solstice?
It is said that the custom of eating jiaozi in winter is to commemorate the "medical sage" Zhang Zhongjing.
Zhang Zhongjing is from Xi 'e, Nanyang. He wrote Treatise on Febrile Diseases, which is a masterpiece of doctors. Quhanjoule decoction has been regarded as a classic by doctors in past dynasties. Zhang Zhongjing has a famous saying: "if you advance, you will survive;" If you retreat, you will save the people; " You can't be a good doctor and you can't be a good doctor. "
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, he served as the magistrate of Changsha, visiting the sick and taking medicine, and practicing medicine in the lobby.
Later, he resolutely resigned and went back to his hometown to treat his neighbors. When he got home, it was already winter.
He saw that the villagers on both sides of the Baihe River were sallow and emaciated, hungry and cold, and many people's ears were frozen. He asked his disciples to build a medical shed and a cauldron in Dongguan, Nanyang, and give up their "charming ears" to treat frostbite on the day of winter solstice.
What are the customs of winter solstice?
1, eat "Joule" from winter to day;
2. Eat jiaozi on the solstice in winter;
3. Cook red bean rice to eat;
4. Drink powder soup and eat mutton powder soup jiaozi;
5, add meat dishes, eat bacon sausages, and send bacon to relatives and friends;
6. Worship ancestors with nine layers of cakes on the winter solstice;
7. Winter solstice wine;
8. Embroidered mandarin duck shoes;
9. Sweep the snow to welcome guests;
10, rub two big balls and stick them on the knocker to symbolize reunion and auspiciousness.
What flowers are there on the winter solstice?
Desert Rose, Plum Blossom, Tea Plum, Chimonanthus praecox, Red Plum, Anthurium, Orchid, White Chrysanthemum, Dahlia, King Flower, Gerbera, Pockmarked Flower, Celosia cristata, False Forsythia, Camellia, Canna, Oncidium, Poinsettia, Catharanthus rosea, Longevity Flower, Zhu Dinghong, Cymbidium grandiflorum, etc.
The significance and symbol of winter solstice
The solstice of winter was considered to be a very important day in ancient times, and people even called it a small year. Every year, when we celebrate the winter solstice, we have to make a lot of preparations, and even there are many celebrations among the people. So the solstice in winter often symbolizes reunion.