1 duck

The traditional dietary custom of Nanjing people is to eat ducks in the summer. Ducks, especially Ma ducks in the cooked area of Jiangning Lake, Nanjing, are the most sought after. It is reported that the ducks there are sweet and cool, and fat and thin.

If they don't have time to cook ducks, people will go to the deli to buy a duck. If they have time, they will carefully prepare a dish made of ducks at home and give these dishes to their neighbors. This is what people call sending ducks in the summer.

2. Longan

The living custom of old Fuzhou is to eat longan with porridge in the summer, because the weather is hot in summer, and the human body consumes a lot of calories. Eating longan can supplement calories. The way the older generation eats is to peel a bowl of longan and eat it with porridge.

3. White meatballs

Old Fuzhou will eat white balls in the summer, which is actually glutinous rice balls. The practice is very simple. Eating white meatballs in the summer can relieve the greasy mouth in summer. White meatballs are a very suitable food for summer.

4. Herbal tea

The custom of decocting herbal tea in the summer has been popular since the Tang Dynasty. Every household has the habit of frying herbal tea during the summer. People go to the drugstore to make prescriptions first, and then go home to fry the tea.

5. Sour plum soup

In the sixties and seventies of last century, there were tea stalls selling sour plum soup in the streets of Wenzhou city, so there was a proverb that "the sour plum soup in the summer was completely extinguished". Sour plum soup is a very popular drink in summer. It tastes sour and sweet, and it is very delicious.