1, eggs. Eating eggs in the long summer can not only stand the test of "summer", but also bring a complete life. There is a custom of eating eggs in long summer, which can prevent common symptoms such as loss of appetite, fatigue and emaciation in summer. Eggs have the effect of calming the nerves and nourishing the heart.
2. Long summer tea. In order to welcome the long summer, China also has the custom of drinking tea in the long summer. It is said that if you don't drink long summer tea, you will suffer all summer. On the day of long summer, women will collect seven kinds of tea and cook with them. It is said that Chang Xia drank seven kinds of tea, which can ensure that you will not feel sleepy all summer.
3, five-color rice. In the old days, in rural areas, five-color beans such as red beans, soybeans, black beans, mung beans and mung beans were mixed with white rice and cooked into "five-color rice", which was called long summer rice.
4. Eat shrimp noodles. In the old society, shrimp noodles were eaten and cooked with noodles in the long summer. Shrimp turns red when cooked, which means auspiciousness. Shrimp is homophonic with summer to express wishes for summer.
5. Eat glutinous rice balls. Have the habit of eating jiaozi in the long summer. First, the glutinous rice flour is kneaded into balls, the size of which is kneaded into glutinous rice balls, and then it is put into a pot and boiled with white sugar. Jiaozi is fragrant in summer, and the stuffing is brown sugar, which is sweet but not greasy.
6. Eat wild summer rice. There is a custom of eating "wild summer rice" in summer. On that day, children flocked to their neighbors to beg for rice and meat. Then go to the wild field to dig wild vegetables and bamboo shoots, build a pot stove with stones and burn it for free, which is called "wild summer rice" or "long summer rice" This custom is to compare yourself with beggars, thinking that you can avoid disaster.