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吃饺子,过冬至chī jiǎo zǐ ,guò dōng zhì

It’s a tradition that at the day of winter solstice Chinese people make and eat dumplings to celebrate the day as a festival. For most of southern Chinese, they will have Tangyuan which is made of sticky rice powder. It’s stuffed with sesame and sugar and looks like a ball symbolizing reunion. 

There is a story. It is said that in Han Dynasty, a famous physician Zhang Zhongjing returned home for his private life. He saw people lived a very poor and hard life. Especially in the snowing winter, people’s ears were red suffering from the cold. Zhang let his cook to drive out the chill with mutton, hot pepper and some medicine. Zhang let him boiled them first and minced them, then wrapped them with flour. After boiling, people’s ears were all cured by eating this kind of ear-like food. Gradually, every winter solstice, people cook such kind of food which was called dumplings to avoid ears from cold.


On December 21st, the Winter Solstice Festival day of this year 2016, we made dumplings to avoid our ears from being frozen. And we learned Chinese characters饺子jiǎo zǐ and冬至dōng zhì. Learning Chinese while eating Chinese food is a way to know more Chinese culture.



The 饺子
jiǎo zǐ with round shape above the picture which is called 元宝yuán bǎo . Because they look like the Chinese money in the old time. And people make dumplings as this kind of looking to wish a good fortune.


Those are boiled dumplings and served with vinegar and soy sauce. Due to the way of people cook, it is called 水饺 shuǐ jiǎo. 


We also made some steamed dumplings which are named 蒸饺zhēng jiǎo.




 

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