How to make Beginning of Summer rice:

1. Wash and drain the glutinous rice.

2. Heat the oil in a pan and fry the diced bacon. When fragrant, add the diced bamboo shoots and peas and fry together.

3. Add a little cooking wine and stir-fry until the ingredients are about five ripe. Add the washed glutinous rice and stir-fry together until the rice is slightly yellow. Add water. If the taste is strong, add some salt.

4. Bring to a boil over high heat and then simmer over low heat for about 40 to 50 minutes.

Beginning of Summer Rice:

Every day before the Beginning of Summer, children ask for a bowl of rice from the next door household, which is called "Douxia Rice". It is believed that children can prevent heatstroke after eating it. The Beginning of Summer rice is filled with condiments such as bamboo shoots, peas, broad beans, and amaranth, which means "abundant grains." Eating five-color rice at the Beginning of Summer also symbolizes good health all year round.

The Beginning of Summer Rice is pea rice with some mushrooms, bamboo shoots and bacon, the most traditional taste. There are other forms of Beginning of Summer rice, such as black rice, which is the choice of friends in Hangzhou. They bought Nanzhu leaves (black rice leaves), soaked them in water and kneaded them to get black juice to soak the glutinous rice. When steaming the rice, they added some ingredients such as peas and diced ham.