What do you mean by eating jiaozi on your head?

Eating jiaozi on your head means spending the summer safely.

Eating jiaozi on the head is a traditional custom, and jiaozi was a rare food in ancient times. However, because jiaozi is shaped like an ingot, it belongs to gold, and the gold treasure is long, which is just the homonym of "Fu" and "Fu", which means that the blessings are full. Therefore, people choose to eat jiaozi on the first day, which also means that they want to spend the cold summer safely.

In the Han Dynasty, Dong Fangshuo said when commenting on "Sacrifice to the Suburb": "The sleeper means that Yin Qi will get up, but he can't open it because of the setting sun, so he hides himself and lies in the sun." That is to say, after the summer solstice, the weather is getting shorter and shorter day by day, and the yin qi is radiating. Because the afterglow of the sun has not passed and suppressed the yin qi, the weather is still very hot. And "the number of the third watch is the first in summer", so people will choose to eat jiaozi first, hoping to spend the summer safely.

Fu Tou analysis

Fu Tou is the first volt of "three volts". Its date is from the third Geng day to the day before the fourth Geng day. Because every Geng day is separated by 10 days, the initial lodging time is 10 days. The word "V" in three volts has two meanings. First, it means that Yin Qi was forced by Yang Qi to hide underground; Second, it means the weather is too hot to move. Its climatic characteristics are "high temperature and high humidity". ?

"Three volts" and "three summers" (summer, summer and midsummer in the 24 solar terms) both represent high temperature and extreme weather, and the curves on the time axis and the temperature axis are basically the same: summer comes, summer comes; When the sky falls, summer is over. The reason why the ancients called the extremely hot day of the year "summer heat" and found a "fu" to accompany it, in addition to the cultural meaning, another important purpose is for health care.