Why do you want to eat boiled eggs on the night of winter solstice?

It means that eating it can warm a winter.

An old saying goes like this: Some people eat all day in winter, but they don't have to eat all night. It means that eating it can warm a winter. So every winter solstice night, the family will cook a pot of longan and boiled eggs.

Although everyone's living standard has improved and food is complete now, the old customs have to be passed down, with less expectations as a child and more traditions, which is of great significance. In winter solstice, it is the happiest thing for a family to get together to eat longan and burn eggs and spend the cold winter. In Jiaxing, Zhejiang, on the night of winter solstice, every household eats a bowl of longan boiled eggs.

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The origin of eating longan and burning eggs;

It turned out that in the Ming Dynasty, there was a court official named Wei Dazhong in Jiashan City. He was extremely dissatisfied with the autocratic power of eunuchs in the dynasty, and listed ten major crimes in Wei Zhongxian to show the court. Unexpectedly, he was framed and sent home.

Wei Dazhong just got home on the evening of the winter solstice. Mrs. Wei is a virtuous lady. She knew that her husband had returned to his hometown with grievances, so she burned three steaming eggs and seven longan, saying, "Anyway, the important thing is to cure him. My master has clean hands and feet and is not afraid of being framed by treacherous court officials. One day, right and wrong will be clarified. "

Sure enough, Wei Dazhong was extremely worried by his wife and was very grateful for her kindness. However, Wei Dazhong finally died in prison, and his eldest son, Wei Xueyi, cried to death beside his father.

Four years later, Wei Dazhong's grievances were finally rehabilitated. At that time, every winter solstice night, the whole city residents would eat eggs and longan, and this form of commemoration became the custom of winter solstice in the county.