Culture Insider: Customs of Sanfu - the dog days of summer

Updated: 2014-08-04 07:14

(chinadaily.com.cn)

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.

Culture Insider: Customs of <EM>Sanfu </EM>- the dog days of summer

Dumplings. [File photo]

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Culture Insider: Customs of <EM>Sanfu </EM>- the dog days of summer

Culture Insider: Customs of <EM>Sanfu </EM>- the dog days of summer

Culture Insider: Customs of <EM>Sanfu </EM>- the dog days of summer

 

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