In some places in Shandong, raw cucumbers and boiled eggs are eaten to cure the bitter summer, and eggs are eaten in the morning and no other food is eaten.
There are folk proverbs in Futian, such as "radish can grow buckwheat when it's on its head, but buckwheat can grow when it's on its feet", and "jiaozi can grow buckwheat when it's on its head, and pancakes spread eggs when it's on its feet". It is a traditional custom to eat jiaozi on one's head. People in Furi lose appetite and tend to be thinner than usual, which is called bitter summer. In traditional customs, jiaozi is the food to stimulate appetite.
People in Xuzhou eat mutton when they crouch, which is called "eating sheep". This custom can be traced back to the Yao and Shun period. There is a saying among the people that "Pengcheng crouches sheep for a bowl of soup, and there is no need for a doctor to prescribe a prescription". Xuzhou people's love for eating Fu Yang is nothing more than the local folk song "Pick up the girl on June 6th, make new wheat cake mutton soup".