The foods eaten during the Lixia Festival are: Lixia eggs, Lixia rice, umi rice, Lixia tea and Lixia fruit.

1, Lixia eggs

Ancient people believe that the form of the egg is rounded and slippery, symbolizing the success of life, Lixia day to eat eggs, you can pray for peace in the summer. Eggs will be put into the tea leaves or walnut shells cooked, sprinkle some fine salt, see the eggshell slowly turn red, full of incense, with the above good wine, wine and tea, delicious on earth.

2, summer rice

Summer, Jiangnan belt to eat "summer rice" custom, and then slowly evolved into "bamboo shoots ding bacon rice". Sautéed salted meat in a frying pan, diced potatoes, diced spring bamboo shoots, peas in the pan and fried, add some sugar and soy sauce to taste, fried with rice and glutinous rice together in a pot, add water to simmer. The sweetness of the bamboo shoots and peas, and the savory flavor of the salted meat, do not need any seasoning.

3, rice

Rice is not black rice cooked rice, but a wild shrub called "rice leaves" leaves, after cleaning and rubbing the leaves, leaching juice, and then in accordance with the proportion of the juice of the leaves called glutinous rice to soak, after a day and a night to soak. After a day and a night of soaking, the snow-white glutinous rice becomes "black" glutinous rice. Then drain the juice and steam it in a cage, sprinkle sugar on it when it comes out of the pot, and you can eat it.

4, Lixia tea

China's Jiangxi, Yangzhou and other places have the custom of drinking tea in the summer. In ancient times, the Lixia tea is also called seven tea, to gather seven tea, *** with cooking and drinking. Most modern people drink some heat relief tea, such as green tea, Longjing tea.

5, Lixia fruit

Lixia fruit, also known as Lixia kuey teow, is Jiangxi Yiyang area of Lixia festival food specialties. Legend has it that eating Lixia Kuey Teow means sending spring and welcoming summer, and the more varieties it has, the richer the spring harvest and the more festive it is.