There is a folk saying: "If you don't bring dumpling bowls during the Winter Solstice, no one will care if your ears fall off due to freezing." That is to say, if you don't eat dumplings during the Winter Solstice, your ears will fall off.

The origin of this saying is mainly Zhang Zhongjing, who wrote "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases" which is regarded as a classic by doctors of all ages. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, he served as the governor of Changsha. Later, due to various reasons, he resigned and returned to his hometown to treat diseases of his fellow villagers.

When he returned to his hometown, it happened to be winter. He saw that the villagers on both sides of the river were malnourished, sallow and thin, suffering from hunger and cold. Many people had a lot of chilblains because of the cold weather, and even My ears were frozen to pieces.

As a doctor and a mother-in-law, he hoped to do something for the villagers, so he asked his disciples to set up a big pot in the greenhouse and cook a medicine called Quhan Jiaoer Decoction for treatment. Chilblains folks.

The method of dispelling cold Jiaoer soup is to boil mutton and medicine for dispelling cold and treating frostbite in a large pot, then take out the mutton and medicinal materials, chop them up, and use bread to cook them. Shape them into ears, cook them, serve them out and serve them with a big bowl of the broth you just cooked, and you will have this Joule soup to remove cold.

Later, some people imitated Jiao Er’s wrapping method and put different fillings inside, which developed into the current dumplings.

Such a bowl of soup can not only drive away the cold and keep warm, but also has a wonderful taste. More importantly, it can also treat frostbitten ears. If these poor people at that time had not been able to Eating a bowl of "dumpling soup" like this will freeze your ears off.

So it has been passed down that if you don’t serve dumplings during the Winter Solstice, your ears will fall off due to the freezing bowl and no one will care.

The custom of eating dumplings during the Winter Solstice has gradually been passed down.