Culture Insider: Customs of Sanfu - the dog days of summer
chinadaily.com.cn
2023年07月11日
Eating dumplings during Toufu
When the dog days come, people tend to lose their appetites, and jiaozi, or boiled dumplings, can refresh people's feelings toward food. Actually jiaozi is an all-time classic, with 2,000 years of history. Besides Sanfu, people eat it at Liqiu, the start of autumn, and Dongzhi, the start of winter.
