I don't know when it was handed down, but here, adults and children in cities and villages say so. Since everyone says so, it naturally becomes a rule. On this day, fennel, leek and pork stuffing are the most conspicuous places in the supermarket. Everyone eats jiaozi, making this day like a holiday.

Let's say it's a festival, but it's not as special as eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival and eating moon cakes on the Mid-Autumn Festival. Maybe I'm too shallow to understand why I want to eat jiaozi in summer. Some people say that if you don't eat jiaozi in summer, you will die of heat. I beg to differ. We also eat jiaozi on the solstice in winter. Is this thing in jiaozi warm in winter and cool in summer?

I haven't paid much attention to the summer heat, which counts as nine twenty-four solar terms. Because there are two people at home who are particularly concerned, I don't have to worry.

One is my father. He buys a hand-torn monthly card every year. How many days before the next solar term, like the countdown to the Olympic Games. Every solar term has to say a few agricultural proverbs. Before and after Grain Rain, planting melons and beans; See wheat stubble in three days; The first cream can't afford onions, and it will definitely fall into the air; Beginning of winter doesn't cut vegetables, so don't be too weird ... Although he hasn't cultivated land for many years, he still needs to review regularly for fear that these precious things will be passed on to him.

Another person who cares about solar terms is my lover. She grew up in the city and didn't understand these agricultural proverbs, but she remembered what she ate on that festival. On holidays, she reminded me:

"Remember to go home for dinner and eat jiaozi tomorrow."

This year is summer again. My wife is away from home on business. Call me specially to remind me to let the old people eat jiaozi.

I always help jiaozi. Let me independently package jiaozi, still can't do it. Buy quick-frozen jiaozi, the skin is too thick, the old man certainly doesn't like it.

So I picked up my lunch box and went to a dumpling shop. Now I have made two sets of jiaozi.

I made a report to my lover. I also gave her a red envelope from jiaozi, asking her to buy herself a plate of jiaozi. For so many years, she has been silently thinking about the food and clothing of the elderly. I never worried. It seems natural to go home to eat jiaozi. This year, when she was on a business trip, I realized that my wife had done too much for this family.

Honey, remember to eat a plate of jiaozi, regardless of this custom.