As the saying goes, “winter solstice dumplings summer solstice noodles”, to the winter solstice this day, we do not forget to eat dumplings. Winter solstice this day to eat dumplings, but also said: “winter solstice dumplings summer solstice noodles, who want not to suffer a loss of six months.” So why do you eat dumplings on the winter solstice? What is the origin of it? Why eat dumplings on the winter solstice? Every year, the winter solstice of the lunar calendar, whether rich or poor, dumplings are essential to the holiday meal. Proverb: “October 1, the winter solstice to, every family to eat dumplings.” This custom is due to commemorate the “Saint of Medicine” Zhang Zhongjing winter solstice medicine left behind. Zhang Zhongjing was a native of Weidong, Nanyang, who wrote “Treatise on Typhoid Miscellaneous Diseases”, a collection of medical treatises that has been regarded as a classic by generations of physicians. Zhang Zhongjing famously said, “If you can’t be a good minister, you should also be a good doctor.” During the Eastern Han Dynasty, he served as the governor of Changsha, visiting the sick and administering medicine in the lobby to practice medicine. Later, he resigned from his post and returned to his hometown to treat the illnesses of his neighbors. When he returned to his hometown, it was winter. He saw that the folks on both sides of the White River were yellow and thin, starving and cold, and many of them had their ears frozen. So he asked his disciples to set up a medical hut and a cauldron at the east gate of Nanyang, and on the winter solstice, he gave them a “cold and delicate ear soup” to cure frostbite. He put mutton, chili peppers and some cold-repelling herbs in a pot and boiled them. Then he chopped up the mutton and herbs and wrapped them into ear-like “delicate ears”, and after they were cooked, he gave two “delicate ears” and a big bowl of broth to each person who came for medicine. People ate the “delicate ears” and drank the “cold-removing soup”, and their bodies were warmed, their ears were warmed, and their frostbitten ears were cured. Later people followed the “ear” look, wrapped into food, also called “dumplings” or “flat food”. Winter solstice dumplings, is not to forget the “sage of medicine” Zhang Zhongjing “to dispel the cold Jiao ear soup” of the grace. Nanyang still have “winter solstice dumpling bowl, freeze off the ear no one care” folk rhyme. Winter solstice dumplings, the benefits of many 1, from the perspective of culinary science, steamed dumplings to water (steam) as the medium of cooking, the temperature is only about 100, that can be cooked food and sterilization, to avoid the barbecue frying conditions generate strong carcinogens such as benzopyrene, to ensure food safety. Moreover, the nutrients of food are not lost due to peroxidation or hydrolysis during the steaming process. 2, from the point of view of dietary structure, dumplings are filled in the crust, you can do the right combination of cereals and vegetables and fruits, meat, so that the main and secondary food with a reasonable, nutritious and acid-base balance, dietary pagoda structure. 3, from a nutritional point of view, dumplings with water (steam) as a heat transfer medium cooked by steaming, can make the food starch polysaccharides fully cleaved, conducive to human absorption. 4, in line with the Chinese gastrointestinal and dietary habits. In line with the “food and drink in moderation”, “careful and five flavors”, “and in the art of” the way of health.