Rooftop News Network 丨Jigong Snow Regiment

　Snow balls are a kind of pastry made of rice flour, which is semi-circular in shape and has lines such as straight curves on the outside, and its color is snow-white. Because Jigong saved people with snow balls, it was also called "". In folklore, snow ball stuffing is generally fried with pork, dried tofu, shiitake mushrooms, etc. cut into small cubes. It is generally used for weddings, the birth of children in the full moon, and the gift of building a house, which is a kind of food that means auspiciousness.

　　Note that the ratio of japonica rice flour to glutinous rice flour is 2:1.

　　Chairman Ye told the history of the Jigong Snow Regiment——

　　Jigong once invented an authentic rooftop "divine food" in the kitchen of Guoqing Temple, the dumpling cone, but who knows, this snow ball was actually invented by Jigong, but the starting point was different, not to save, but to save the people. Once, Emperor Xiaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty dreamed that someone was eating snow, asked Yu Chao, interpreted a hundred kinds, and could not be bothered. It just so happened that this year, a flash flood on the land boundary of Tiantai County caused a grain harvest failure, but the magistrate concealed it for Baowu sha hat and did not report it, and the people's taxes were inevitable, and the Jigong was worried. On the morning of the winter solstice day of a "good snowy year", Ji Gong, who had rushed back to the rooftop from Bieliang, saw a few rich boys bullying two wandering beggars on the snow on the way back to the monastery, and those "little beggars" were screaming and cursing while throwing snow balls at the beggars who were in a hurry, Ji Gong wanted to reprimand them to stop, but they also hindered their elders from being tanyue of the temple, it was not appropriate to tear their faces, and the simple food assistance to the beggars could not change anything. How to help beggars have a home and food?

　　Ji Gong frowned and counted his heart. He hurried into the temple to roll out the very precious glutinous rice flour that only the rich and noble families could afford to buy from the Bieliang Huayuan ten days ago and the japonica rice flour eaten by Shangping Vegetarian, and asked the fire-headed monk to quickly make a white-skinned steamed bun. The so-called steamed buns of the Song Dynasty are actually today's buns, which are stuffed, but ordinary people can't eat glutinous rice, and the steamed buns made of rice noodles are gray and yellow in color, and the skin of the steamed buns is coarse. In order to hurry up, the fire-headed monk coarsely cut the vegetarian ingredients prepared to make the winter solstice steamed bun filling into cubes and wrapped them into steamed buns.

　　After Ji Gong carefully instructed him to do so, he hurried out of the monastery to find the parents of the "Little Fool", pretending that there were snowflakes as big as a fist, and invited them to go to the vicinity of the Guoqing Temple to find the "Heavenly Descending Ruiwu", because Ji Gong knew that the emperors in the annals of history had always been good heavenly and descending Ruiwu, and the monarchs and gentry were regarded as auspicious omens, and often favored the auspicious land of Ruiwu. The fire-headed monk arranged by Jigong had already thrown white-skinned steamed buns on the snow outside the temple, because the color was not bad and it was not easy to see. Ji Gong accompanied these Tan Yue benefactors to shout the little ones on the road and shouted beggars to go to the temple to find Ruiwu together on the grounds of "one more person and more strength", this beggar was hungry, his nose was spirited, and soon he found a steamed bun that looked like a snow ball and swallowed it, and when everyone wondered why beggars ate snow, Ji Gong pretended to shout wildly: "This is really great virtue and mercy, the heavenly snow regiment to save the soul!" The Tanyue benefactors also found the steamed snow balls, and also pulled out a note in them, saying "Zi ShaoJia defeated righteous son can be saved" and "Lingtong Eats Snow Heavenly Son Dream Circle" and other words. Ji Gong pretended to find the note, interpreted it for Tan Yue, and begged several young sons tan yue to receive righteous sons, so he helped the two beggars who had no clothes and no food to have a home. Ji Gong also encouraged Tan Yue to report the matter of "heavenly plume - edible snow balls" to the imperial court, which should solve the dream of the emperor, and the people of Tiantai were exempted from taxes for one year.

　　In order to thank Jigong, everyone later called the glutinous rice steamed buns as Jigong Snow Balls, which were referred to as Snow Balls by the people after they were widely circulated.

Source: China Tiantai News Network

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