What is the origin of the phrase "jiaozi is lying on his head, and pancakes are spread on his feet"?

The custom of eating noodles on Furi Festival began at least in the Three Kingdoms period. According to Wei's Spring and Autumn Annals, "Lie in the sun, wipe your sweat with a towel and look at Jiao Ran" makes people realize that white skin is white, not covered with powder. The "soup cake" here is hot soup noodles.

Liang Zonggu of the Southern Dynasties wrote in the Chronicle of Jingchu: "The soup cake is pale in June, which is called evil." May is an evil month, and June also touches the edge of the evil month, so it should also be "evil". This is superstition. Grinding new wheat into flour and cooking soup will make you sweat. The new grain is rich in nutrition, and sweating can drive away diseases. It is scientific to eat soup cakes in June.

In dog days, you can not only drink hot noodle soup, but also drink water. Cooked noodles are cooked in cold water, mixed with garlic paste and watered with halogen seeds, which not only stimulates appetite, but also "defeats the heart".

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Eating jiaozi in the early days is a traditional custom, because people have a bad appetite and can't eat anything, while jiaozi is a food that stimulates appetite in the traditional customs of China people.

In the past, when the wheat harvest was less than a month, everyone had food to eat, so they used this time to enjoy food. There is a saying that "the food is not as good as jiaozi", so jiaozi naturally became the first choice.

Jiaozi looks like an ingot, and "Fu" and "Fu" are homophonic, so the "Chu Fu" in Jiaozi is also called "Yuanbaofu". In hot summer, people often have a bad appetite and can't eat anything, and jiaozi is a traditional custom to satisfy their appetite.

People eat jiaozi in the early days, hoping to spend the summer safely. More importantly, eating jiaozi and drinking hot original soup on the first night can dispel the "poisonous fire" in midsummer and make up for the physical exertion in sultry weather.