Every winter solstice, whether rich or poor, jiaozi is an indispensable festival feast. As the saying goes, "Every family eats jiaozi from the winter solstice on October 1st." This custom is to commemorate "Doctor of Medicine" Zhang Zhongjing, who gave up taking medicine in the winter of November. Zhang Zhongjing is an oriental from Nanyang. Zhang Zhongjing has a famous saying: "if you advance, you will survive;" Save the people; If you are not good, be a good doctor. "
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, he was the magistrate of Changsha. He visited the hospital and practiced medicine in the hall. Then he 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 yellow and thin, hungry and cold, and many people's ears were frozen. Eating jiaozi on the winter solstice is the same as before, but it is also a special custom. From the perspective of modern nutrition, he cooked mutton, peppers and some herbs in a pot, then took out the mutton and medicine and cut them into pieces, making his ears as delicate as those with bread.
During the winter solstice, the diet should be diversified, with reasonable collocation of grain, fruit, meat and vegetables, and appropriate selection of high-calcium foods, so as to cure the whole body warm, ear fever and frostbitten ears. Later generations learned the shape of Joule and wrapped it in food, which is also called jiaozi or flat food. He asked his disciples to build a medicine shed and a cauldron in Dongguan, Nanyang. On the day of winter solstice, he suggested that we "have a healthy winter solstice and change the style of jiaozi". Many people eat traditional jiaozi, which contains "pork, onions, mutton and carrots".
But this jiaozi is very monotonous. I suggest you use more fresh ingredients. Food should be light, non-turbid, greasy and over-shaped.