The origin of the medical sage zhang zhongjing and dumplings

Dumplings formerly known as "jiao ear", is our country medical sage invented by zhang zhongjing first.

Across the eastern han dynasty last years, disaster is serious, a lot of people are suffering from disease. Nanyang is a famous doctor named zhang machine, zhongjing, words have been cramming textbooks, eclecticism, become the founder of the traditional Chinese medicine. Zhang zhongjing not only skill, what question can be instant solutions, and noble medical ethics, regardless of rich and poor, he treats seriously, has saved the lives of millions.

Zhang zhongjing who serve in changsha, often for the people, in addition to disease cure. One year, local plague prevalence in yamun mouth cauldron since base, medicine save and deep love of people in changsha. Zhang zhongjing from changsha, after your go to hometown baihe shore, see a lot of poor people suffer hunger and cold, ears were frozen rotten. His heart is very afflictive, determined to treat them. Zhang zhongjing returned home, seeking medical treatment of people much more special, he is busy as a bee, but he firemen in the heart to the frozen rotten ears of poor people. He modelled on the way in changsha, disciple in nanyang dongguan set up medical tent in a clearing, set up a big pot, opened on the day of the winter solstice, give to the poor medicine cure injury.

Zhang zhongjing medicine named "remove cold jiao ear soup", its practice is to use some lamb, peppers and remove cold medicine in the pot to boil, cook a chop and then put these things out, a surface casing into the ear shape "jiao ear", the pot after cooked to begging for the patient. Each two jiao ear, a bowl of soup. People eat after remove cold soup all over heat, blood, warming from ear to ear. For a period of time, the patient's bad ear.

Zhang zhongjing s medicine until year. A sum, people celebrate the New Year, also celebrate bad ear rehabilitation, like imitation of jiao ear do Chinese New Year food, and eat on the morning of the first. People call this kind of food "dumpling ear" or "dumpling" or partial eclipse, on the winter solstice and eat on the first day, to commemorate zhang zhongjing shed medicine and cure the patients.

Zhang zhongjing was nearly 1800 years ago, but he breaks the "remove cold jiao ear soup" the story has been in the civil widely circulated. Every winter solstice and on the first day, people eat dumplings, the in the mind still has a zhang zhongjing's kindness. Today, we don't need to treat frozen rotten with jiao ear to ear, but dumpling has become the most common and favorite food.

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