1, long summer rice In the old long summer season, five-color beans and japonica rice were cooked into five-color rice in the countryside around Ningbo, also known as long summer rice. With the improvement of living standards and rich materials, many families in the south use peas, thunder shoots, broad beans, amaranth, diced mushrooms, diced bacon, carrots and other ingredients instead of five-color beans, which means "five grains are abundant" and is quite ceremonial. As the saying goes, "a thousand supplements are not as good as a long summer supplement." Eating long summer rice also sends a message that people want to be healthy all year round.

2, wheat silkworm green wheat silkworm, also known as green wheat group, is a seasonal food in the suburbs of Shanghai and Qidong and Haimen in Jiangsu for long summer. Crushing immature green wheat ears, frying wheat grains with shells in a pot, removing shells, and grinding into powder in a stone mill. Together with sugar, they are made into strips as long as baby silkworms, so they are called wheat silkworms. 3. Long summer tea Long summer tea, also called Qijia tea, is the custom of long summer in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. On the day of long summer, new tea comes on the market, and women will gather seven kinds of tea to cook and drink together. It is said that drinking long summer tea can prevent the coming of summer and make you spend it healthily and safely.

4, long summer porridge In the long summer season, people in Fuyang, Hunan Province have to cook long summer porridge. Long summer porridge is made of more than ten kinds of ingredients such as lean meat, vermicelli, glutinous rice balls, red dates, pig viscera, dried bamboo shoots, red dates, peas and bean sprouts. Add it to the rice and cook it into delicious porridge.

5. Xia Guo Changchang Xia Guo, also known as Changxia _, is a special food of long summer solar terms in Yiyang, Jiangxi. On the day of long summer, every household will cook a big pot for long summer and eat it all day. Long summer _ is cooked with rice and kneaded into small dumplings. Add bean sprouts, dried beans, dried shrimps and peas to make "long summer soup", also called long summer soup. According to legend, eating long summer is to send spring to welcome summer. The more varieties, the richer the spring harvest and the more festive it is.

6, foot bone bamboo shoots Eating foot bone bamboo shoots in summer is a unique custom in Ningbo. Foot bone bamboo shoots are actually black bamboo shoots on the mountain. It is thin and long, and looks like a foot bone. When cooked, cut it into three or four centimeters long without cutting it open. It is said that Chang Xia ate a foot bone bamboo shoot, and the foot bone was healthy for a year.