The 12 traditional foods eaten at the beginning of summer: Lixia rice, Lixia eggs, Lixia soup, umi rice, wheatworms, foot bone bamboo shoots, seven family congee, seven family tea, light cake, stall rice, shrimp noodles, young broad beans.

1, Lixia rice, the day before the summer, the children to the neighboring households to ask for a bowl of rice, called "Duxia summer rice". Summer rice with bamboo shoots, peas, broad beans, amaranth and other condiments, containing the meaning of the "five grains", eat five-color rice in summer, there is a year-round health symbol.

2, Lixia eggs, Han Chinese custom south of the Yangtze River. Every summer, people have to eat hard-boiled eggs or salted duck eggs, that eating eggs in the summer can strengthen the body.

3, Lixia jelly, Lixia jelly is a traditional Chinese festival "Lixia" the day of the festival food. From Yunnan to the south of the vast southern region have Lixia eat Lixia soup custom. The production of summer soup varies from place to place, but most of them are inseparable from the rice flour and seasonal vegetables, etc., and the basic form to paste-based.

4, umi rice, umi rice was originally a Chinese folk festival food, the Tang Dynasty that is. Jiangsu and Anhui area on the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, there are many people with rice tree leaves cooked rice, has become a custom.

5, wheatworms, green wheat group that is green wheatworms, Tongdong language known as cold chen, belonging to the sandy family (now the city of Haimen, Jiangsu Province, and Qidong City) traditional snacks.

6, foot bone bamboo shoots, eat "foot bone bamboo shoots", is a unique custom in Ningbo. Not all the bamboo shoots sold in the market can be used to make "foot bone bamboo shoots", the best is the wild bamboo shoots or bamboo shoots. Eat "foot bone bamboo shoots" focus on the shape, before cooking the bamboo shoots pat flat, cut into a section of about 4 centimeters, shaped like a foot bone, eat to "foot bone Jian Jian over".

7, seven porridge, Zhejiang rural summer has eaten "seven porridge" custom, the so-called "seven porridge", is to neighbors to give each other beans, rice, plus brown sugar, cooked into a large pot of porridge for everyone to share.

8, seven tea, Hangzhou Old custom, summer day cooking new tea _ relatives and neighbors, said seven tea.

9, light cake, light cake, is a traditional specialty snack in Fujian Province, China. There is also a charcoal grilled "fire bun" ("火烧馍"), which is made by mixing the dough with a small piece of bread and then grilling it over a charcoal fire. It is made by mixing the dough, cutting it into pieces, rolling it round and flattening it, then brushing it with water and sticking it on a charcoal grill. There are sweet, salty, and neither sweet nor salty, and the appearance, color, and size are exactly the same as the Fuzhou light cake, except that the hole in the center of the cake for threading is missing.

10, thresh rice, summer, to cauliflower or jujube lard and thresh rice burned into the powder, called "thresh rice", eaten in the summer, to prevent disease and drive away disaster.

11, shrimp noodles, shrimp noodles, also known as shrimp noodles, Xiamen, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong and other regions of the traditional noodle specialties. The main ingredients are shrimp, green vegetables, pork, oil noodles, etc., and its taste is delicious.

12, fava beans is a delicious seasonal vegetable in late spring and early summer, Jiangnan area, like to eat beans in the summer season, before and after the summer of fresh fava beans on the market in large quantities, almost every family is eating fava beans, so fava beans are also known as summer beans.