Let's watch Winter Solstice first. Every year on the winter solstice, every family will eat jiaozi to spend the day. Old people say that if you don't eat jiaozi on the solstice in winter, you will lose your ears. In some places, there is also a saying that "pulling up Bala will drop your chin". From the calendar point of view, the days from the solstice of winter to Laba are just the time of 3949, and the severe cold in the 24 solar terms is also the coldest time of the year. The sun began to move northward from the tropic of Capricorn. It was also on this day that the yang began to rise and the air conditioning began to fall, that is, "one yang recovered and everything recovered." However, at this time, the yang is at the beginning, and the yin is strong, which is often the coldest time of the year, and the yang is not enough to resist the invasion of yin. Compared with the big universe, the human body is a small universe and can understand the weather. The yang of human body is not enough to resist the erosion of yin, so we should eat some foods with high viscosity, rich nutrition and high calorie to increase the yang of human body and resist the cold of nature. Therefore, meat, a high-calorie and nutritious food, has become the first choice. Chaos, jiaozi is the most delicious thing, and at this time, people are in their leisure time in winter. Some Kung Fu families sit down, make dumplings, roll dumplings with flour, and eat jiaozi round and round to spend the winter. As for now, due to the fine social division of labor, people's living standards in other industries have improved except in rural areas where there is no slack season. Although they are very busy, they can eat hot jiaozi or wonton without going to the supermarket in the busy New Year. Therefore, the saying of "meat winter solstice day" has strict scientific basis, and it is a precious experience that people have accumulated forever on the basis of science for thousands of years. He can completely guide people's lives. As for other statements, there is no scientific basis, just attached to legends and folk stories.

By the way, "Sanyang" in "Sanyang Kaitai". The winter solstice, in the modern 1 1 month, is called the sub-month on the calendar. Huangdi calendar, Zhou calendar and Lu calendar take Zi Yue as the first month, also known as "Sword". The second month is the winter solstice month, which is 1 1 month in the summer calendar. Why is the second month the first month? November is the solstice of winter, and the yellow meridian of the sun is the day when the yang returns, so this day is regarded as the beginning of a year. From winter to the sun, the longitude of the sun is 270 degrees, the direct point of the sun is on the tropic of Capricorn, and the direct point of the sun is on the tropic of Capricorn. The southern hemisphere has the longest days and the shortest nights. The higher the latitude in the northern hemisphere, the shorter the day and the longer the night, and the polar night phenomenon appears in the Arctic Circle. The farther away from the tropic of Capricorn on the earth, the more inclined the sun's rays are, and the less solar heat is obtained. But it was from this day that the spirit of the sun began to sprout. As the sun moves northward, the days in the northern hemisphere get longer and the nights get shorter. By Laba Festival, it has grown a lot. That is, people often say, "La Barabba, there is a bend during the day." As for the ugly month in the future, it is also called "building ugliness". The ugly month is a month of slight cold and severe cold, which is December in the summer calendar. Zhuan Xu calendar was always used in Qin and early Han dynasties. In the first year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, it was changed to Xia Zheng, that is, according to the summer calendar, with silver moon as the first month. Since then, it has been used for generations and has been passed down to this day.

According to the Book of Changes, the connection is Yang and the disconnection is Yin. Among the twelve news hexagrams, the first month in ancient times, which is now November, is the beginning of the revival of hexagrams and the beginning of a yang; The ancient February is the present December, which is the divination of the Twelve News, and the second Yang began to be born. Ancient March, now the first month, is the Thai hexagram in the twelve news hexagrams. Now, ancient times are regarded as the first month, so there is a saying that "three yang opens Thailand". At this time, the yang has been much stronger, and everything has recovered. Sanyang was born underground; When winter goes and spring comes, yin fades and yang grows, just like good luck. "Sanyang Kaitai" is often used to celebrate the beginning of a year or to symbolize good luck. Yitai: "Tai, long size, Ji Heng." Song Shi: "Three Yang's friendship with Thailand makes a new day impossible.

Let's talk about Surabah again. "。 I said in my last article. I repeat, it can make the whole article complete. On the eighth day of December, the Buddha Sakyamuni fell on the side of the road because of hunger and fatigue, and was found by a shepherdess who saved him with rice porridge, which made him realize that he had become a Buddha. Enlightenment day is also the eighth day of December, so Laba is also a Buddhist festival. Often on this day, disciples set up porridge sheds and porridge pots to cook porridge with miscellaneous grains used by pilgrims to help the poor people. Later, it became a traditional festival handed down by the people. The second is that Laba commemorates a god who saved mankind. It is said that there was grain, wine and meat in the ancient sky. After a lot of rain, people wasted it, littering everywhere, scattering food and feeding food to pigs, which caused waste. God was furious and wanted to kill human beings on Laba day and let a god execute it. This god pities the people in the lower world, and asks people to make bean porridge on Laba Day and sprinkle the cooked soup on the street. The sky and the earth pulled out the clouds and saw the streets full of red blood, so he died. Then the kitchen god let it slip away. The Emperor of Heaven was furious and beheaded the gods. After the advice of many immortals, the emperor changed his method, turning grain into rain and snow, letting people dig things from the ground to eat, and planting vegetation to feed animals. So there is agriculture. To commemorate this god, people eat bean porridge in Laba every day. On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, when the Kitchen God went to heaven, they made a earthen stove fire and ate sesame candy, saying it was the mouth of the Kitchen God, so as not to talk nonsense about things in heaven and on earth. Therefore, Laba has been eating bean porridge until now. So people have a vegetarian custom in Laba.

Next, let's talk about the proverb that "the winter solstice plants onions and Laba picks the top" has nothing to do with myths, legends or calendars. It is also summed up by the working people in their life and labor practice. On the solstice of winter, people take out the onions bought in autumn and dried in winter, and then find a deeper pot, most of which is carbon ash. Because carbon ash absorbs water, onion roots are not easy to rot. In winter, the wind is dry and the sun is shining, and there is a hard knot on the top of the onion. This knot must not be removed, because the new roots grow from here and protect the new roots. Once this induration is removed, the substance that grows new roots will be removed together, and no new roots will grow. Remove the dry skin from the onion surface. Never peel it too hard, plant it in a pot. With watering every day, onions gradually begin to grow. The new roots below began to sprout and grow, gradually bound by some induration, and could no longer grow smoothly. Even if the protection task of this induration is completed, it will be removed. It's too early to remove it, too early, and the new roots haven't grown well; Even if it is late, it will affect the growth of new roots. According to long-term observation and accumulated experience, around Laba is the most suitable time to remove this induration. Remove this induration and new roots can grow independently. By the end of the year, it has grown into a gratifying and vibrant onion. People often show it off as a kind of capital with strong family spirit. Use it to stew and make steamed stuffed bun jiaozi, which is fresh and spicy. This pot of onion symbolizes a round, prosperous and happy life of the family.

In a word, the origin of these two proverbs is closely related to people's working life and is a valuable experience summed up by working people. It has become a part of our happy life and has been handed down from generation to generation.