People in Putian, Fujian like to eat litchi, mutton and rice grains in the summer, and some people say that eating litchi in the summer is as high in nutritional value as ginseng. Litchi is a specialty of Putian, among which Song Jiaxiang, Zhuangyuanhong and Eighteen Niang Hong are excellent varieties, which are well-known in ancient and modern times.
When the summer comes, there is a traditional custom of "drinking summer sheep" or eating noodles in Linyi urban and rural areas. On this day, every married daughter and married son will go back to their parents' home, kill a sheep and cook a pot of cold noodles. The whole family will drink mutton soup and eat noodles with joy and have a hot summer.
After the summer heat falls, one of people's habits to spend the summer is to drink tea, especially in Jiangxi and other places. People have the custom of drinking tea in the summer, and many people will also make dried ebony in the backyard into ebony tea.