Farmers' neighbors give each other beans, rice and brown sugar to cook a pot of porridge, which is called "porridge for seven families". It is said that after eating this kind of porridge, the neighbors became harmonious, and they went to Xia Geng for summer sowing. Every time Hangzhou people come to the long summer, they have to cook a new meal and prepare fruit cakes. They worship and give gifts to each other among relatives and neighbors, which is called "eating seven teas in the long summer".

Zhejiang Long Summer Diet: Folk Long Summer Diet Custom There is a folk song that says:

Green plum summer cake and cherry, bacon, river fish, black rice cake. Amaranth, salted duck eggs, roasted goose, broad bean wine.

The method of black rice cake is to knead the tender leaves of Vaccinium bracteatum, soak them in clear water, filter them, and steam them with glutinous rice flour, which is purple and fragrant.

Long summer, one of the eight folk festivals, indicates the arrival of summer.

There is a folk couplet that says "corning eight festivals" In this "eight festivals" day, husband and wife do not have sexual intercourse in principle, in order to purify their body and mind and show their respect for the god of heaven and earth. The eight festivals here, as important festivals of the lunar calendar, refer to the eight solar terms of "beginning of spring, Spring Equinox, Long Summer, Summer Solstice, beginning of autumn, Autumn Equinox, beginning of winter and Winter Solstice".