Jade Soba Dumplings
by Tips for Yanmen Qinggao Kitchen
Favorite
Difficulty
Easy
Time
5m
Serving
3
Why do you want to eat dumplings during the winter solstice?
Every year on the winter solstice of the lunar calendar, dumplings are an indispensable holiday meal regardless of rich or poor. The saying goes: "October 1st, the winter solstice is here, and every family eats dumplings." This custom was left in memory of the "medical saint" Zhang Zhongjing's winter solstice medicine.
Zhang Zhongjing is a native of Nanyang Jidong. He wrote "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases", which is a collection of medical masters, and is regarded as a classic by doctors of the past. Zhang Zhongjing famously said: "You will save the world if you enter, and the people will be saved if you retreat; you can't be a good doctor, but you can also be a good doctor." During the Eastern Han Dynasty, he was the prefect of Changsha, visiting patients and administering medicine, and practicing medicine in the lobby. Later, he resigned and returned to his hometown to treat his neighbors. It was winter when he returned home.
He saw that the folks on both sides of the Baihe River were yellowish and thin, hungry and cold, and many people's ears were froze. He asked his disciples to set up a medical shed in Nanyang Dongguan, set up a cauldron, and "Quhanjiaoertang" on the day of the winter solstice to treat frostbite. He put mutton, chili and some anti-cold medicinal herbs in a pot and boiled, then fished out the mutton and medicine and chopped them into pieces, and used bread into ear-like "sweet ears". After they were cooked, they were distributed to those who came for medicine. Two "jiao ears" per person, a large bowl of broth.
People ate "Jiao Er" and drank "Quhan Decoction". They were warm, their ears were warm, and their frostbitten ears were healed. Later generations learned to look like "jiao ears" and wrapped them into food, also called "dumplings" or "bianshi".
Eating dumplings on the winter solstice is the grace of Zhang Zhongjing, the "medical sage" who never forgets the "Quhan Jiao Er Tang". To this day, Nanyang still has a folk song of "I don't serve dumpling bowls during the winter solstice, and no one cares about freezing my ears."
Every year on the winter solstice of the lunar calendar, dumplings are an indispensable holiday meal regardless of rich or poor. The saying goes: "October 1st, the winter solstice is here, and every family eats dumplings." This custom was left in memory of the "medical saint" Zhang Zhongjing's winter solstice medicine.
Zhang Zhongjing is a native of Nanyang Jidong. He wrote "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases", which is a collection of medical masters, and is regarded as a classic by doctors of the past. Zhang Zhongjing famously said: "You will save the world if you enter, and the people will be saved if you retreat; you can't be a good doctor, but you can also be a good doctor." During the Eastern Han Dynasty, he was the prefect of Changsha, visiting patients and administering medicine, and practicing medicine in the lobby. Later, he resigned and returned to his hometown to treat his neighbors. It was winter when he returned home.
He saw that the folks on both sides of the Baihe River were yellowish and thin, hungry and cold, and many people's ears were froze. He asked his disciples to set up a medical shed in Nanyang Dongguan, set up a cauldron, and "Quhanjiaoertang" on the day of the winter solstice to treat frostbite. He put mutton, chili and some anti-cold medicinal herbs in a pot and boiled, then fished out the mutton and medicine and chopped them into pieces, and used bread into ear-like "sweet ears". After they were cooked, they were distributed to those who came for medicine. Two "jiao ears" per person, a large bowl of broth.
People ate "Jiao Er" and drank "Quhan Decoction". They were warm, their ears were warm, and their frostbitten ears were healed. Later generations learned to look like "jiao ears" and wrapped them into food, also called "dumplings" or "bianshi".
Eating dumplings on the winter solstice is the grace of Zhang Zhongjing, the "medical sage" who never forgets the "Quhan Jiao Er Tang". To this day, Nanyang still has a folk song of "I don't serve dumpling bowls during the winter solstice, and no one cares about freezing my ears."
