Yancheng weighing
Yancheng residents attach great importance to the Long Summer Festival, and the diet on this day includes boiled eggs, boiled lotus roots, jiaozi, steamed cakes and so on. In addition, there are two special customs: weighing and eating yellow sesame seeds cake.
Bianhu Lake, Ding Chi, Fuzhou
In the long summer, it is popular in Fuzhou to cook in summer with a tripod. Fixed-edge paste, boiled with rice paste, with clear soup of shrimp, shrimp oil, scallion, golden needle, black fungus, clams or a small amount of mushrooms, dried clams and other seafood.
Jiangnan eats three new things
There is a saying in Jiangnan that "three creations" are tasted in the long summer. The "three new" are cherry, green plum and shad. "Three innovations" also refer to "bamboo shoots, cherries, plums", "cherries, plums, wheat kernels" and "bamboo shoots, cherries and broad beans". In short, in the long summer, you can eat fresh food in season.
Eat eggs in long summer.
The ancients thought that eggs were round and symbolized the perfection of life. Eating eggs in summer can pray for peace in summer and stand the test of "summer". Summer begins in April of the lunar calendar. "Eggs in April are as cheap as vegetables." People put eggs in leftover "Qijia tea" and cook them, which becomes "tea eggs". "Eating an egg in the long summer is extremely powerful." People in Ningbo have the custom of eating tea eggs in the long summer.
Changxiacha
In order to welcome the long summer, China and Jiangxi also have 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.