1, eggs in long summer: Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai will eat salted eggs, and eggs will be eaten in long summer, which is called "summer tonic". Salted duck eggs are the best, because salted duck eggs are rich in inorganic salts such as calcium and iron, and the calcium content and iron ratio are higher than those of eggs and fresh duck eggs, so they are the first choice for supplementing calcium and iron in summer. "Long Summer Egg" is the most classic food in that long summer. Eating it can prevent common discomfort such as loss of appetite, fatigue and weakness of limbs in summer. Long summer eggs can be boiled eggs or salted duck eggs. If you cook eggs, you usually cook them with tea powder or walnut shells. Watching the eggshells turn red slowly, the house is full of fragrance. Salted duck eggs are rich in calcium and iron. You can try them.

2, black rice: black rice, black and shiny, fragrant and delicious, made of glutinous rice soaked in black leaves for several hours and cooked. On this day of long summer, Jiangnan people love to eat. It is said that this custom originated from Sun Bin, a famous strategist in the Warring States Period. There is also a folk legend that eating black rice will not be bitten by mosquitoes in long summer and summer, and it is not easy to get heatstroke. Black rice was originally a folk festival food of the Han nationality, which existed in the Tang Dynasty. In Jiangsu and Anhui, it has become a custom for many people to cook black rice with the leaves of Vaccinium bracteatum.

3. Seven porridge: In the long summer, in rural Zhejiang, you must eat "seven porridge", also called "seven teas". Seven porridge is a big pot of porridge made of rice, beans and brown sugar from the neighbor's house. Let's share it. Seven families in Chaze brought fresh baked tea from Bletilla striata, mixed them together, boiled or soaked them into a big pot of tea, and then everyone got together to drink. Every time Hangzhou people come to the long summer, they have to cook a new meal and prepare fruit cakes. Relatives and neighbors respect tea and give gifts to each other, which is called "eating seven teas in the long summer".

4. Taste three delicacies: Wuxi folks have always had the custom of tasting three delicacies in the long summer. Three fresh foods are divided into three fresh foods: ground, tree and water. The three fresh plants are broad bean, amaranth and cucumber (amaranth, wheat, broad bean, amaranth, broad bean and garlic sprout); Three fresh trees are cherry, loquat and apricot (one is plum, apricot and cherry, and the other is plum, cherry and toon head); The three kinds of fresh water are marine fish, puffer fish and shad (shad, shad and yellow croaker, as well as shad, whitebait and mackerel). Among them, tasting fresh land is the most common.