Long summer rice contains condiments such as thunder bamboo shoots, peas, broad beans and amaranth. Eating five-colored rice in the long summer also means being healthy all year round.

Every day before the long summer, children will ask the first family next door for a bowl of rice, which is called "taking Xia Xia rice". Dig some bamboo shoots, "steal" some broad beans and use some garlic seedlings. In summer, rice and ingredients are cooked in the open air, as well as plums and cherries. It was put on rice the day before yesterday and distributed to rice families. Every family has a small bowl. People think that children can prevent heatstroke after eating it.

The custom of long summer

1, try a new activity

In Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, there is a custom of "trying new things in the long summer". There is a saying in Suzhou that "seeing three new things in the long summer". "Sanxin" refers to newly matured cherries, plums and wheat. People worship their ancestors with "Sanxin" first, and then people taste food. At the same time, Suzhou Changxia also wants to eat Haisi, gluten, white bamboo shoots, shepherd's purse, salted duck eggs and green beans. On this day, the long summer of each hotel gives free fermented white wine and soju to the old customers who enter the store, so the long summer is also called "feed festival".

2, the game of playing eggs

"Eggs are thrown all over the street in the long summer", and beating eggs is usually a child's game. To use boiled eggs, generally boil them with white water (the shell can't be damaged), soak them in cold water, and then put them in a net bag woven with colored silk thread or wool for children to hang around their necks.

The rules for breaking eggs are quite simple. To put it bluntly, it means "see whose eggshell is hard": everyone holds an egg in his hand, with the pointed one as the head and the round one as the tail. The head of an egg hits the head of an egg and the tail of an egg hits the tail of an egg. He fought for it one by one. The man who broke the shell gave up and then ate the eggs. Xiao Qiang, the last one who could not break the battle, was honored as the "king of eggs".