The meaning of jiaozi is not simply about eating, but the ultimate definition of food in the hungry era of lack of materials.

Grandma's Dumplings tells the story of Jiang Guifang, the hostess, who used her skills in a state-run dumpling shop to open a shop to solve the problem of eating for a large family after she was laid off. Dramas associated with food always look like fireworks.

At the beginning of the series, Jiang Guifang's family happily gathered together to wrap jiaozi, while the young third and fourth sat on the sofa scrambling for the special products brought back from Beijing, while the eldest and second were busy wrapping jiaozi around the table with stuffing and kneading dough.

It can be seen that the eldest daughter and the second daughter don't deal with it, but in this family with many children, there is no son preference at this time, but in the following plot, this kind of sign seems to be getting worse.

With the development of the plot, the hostess's special preference for the third son and the youngest son almost overflowed the screen.

The third son used Dajiefu's life-saving money as a pastime to buy worms. Although it didn't directly lead to Dajiefu's death, this behavior should be criticized and educated. However, a man who was in poor health put off this mistake as if nothing had happened, and the youngest son who was picked up was even more worried about ghosts. However, the woman still chose to spoil him, and she loved him more than her own daughter. Such a preference for sons over daughters also caused a heated discussion.

However, in my opinion, there is an essential difference between son preference and a bowl of uneven water.

The former comes from gender, while the latter comes from strength.

In fact, Jiang Guifang in the play is just an uneven performance of a bowl of water, which is reflected in her concern and understanding for her eldest daughter when her eldest son-in-law died and her anxiety about her fourth daughter's work.

No matter who we are, even if we are very critical of son preference, it is hard to give as much love when we are faced with multiple children when we are short of materials.

What the play really reflects is the positive guiding role of mothers or women to a family when they encounter turbulence and setbacks. This is a wife who has lost her husband, and this is a group of children who have lost their father.

For a mother, how to keep every child from going astray, how to make every child feel the warmth of the family, and how to give the children a solid backing are the first things she needs to consider.

Therefore, giving enough love and care is the key point, and treating children, whether it is a family with many children or not, should be the same.

Just like the predictable happy ending of Lao Jiang's family, the foreseeable contradiction between the eldest brother and the second child will be resolved. With such a mother, this family will never collapse.

Before you become a parent, you should reserve enough love and patience, and build up optimism and tenacity in the face of all difficulties. Of course, I also hope that every family can harvest warmth, in this cold but steaming season.