1, wheat silkworm: In the long summer festival, wheat flour and sugar are used to make an inch-long strip of food, which is called wheat silkworm. People eat it, it is said that they can avoid "summer". In the long summer, tender grass heads and rice noodles are fried into cakes, which are called "stalls" and are deeply loved by Shanghai and Pudong people. Sugar plum, fermented grains, salted eggs, etc. It is also a seasonal food, calling it fresh and tasting it "three new".

2. Sanxian: Taste Sanxian in long summer, also known as "Eat Sanxian in long summer" or "See Sanxin in long summer". Three chords are generally divided into "three chords of the earth", "three chords of the tree" and "three chords of the water". The three fresh plants are broad bean, amaranth and cucumber (amaranth, broad bean and garlic sprout). There are few cherries, loquats and apricots (once said plums, apricots and cherries). The three kinds of fresh water are conch, puffer fish and shad (shad, pomfret and yellow croaker).

3. Long summer rice: In the old long summer festival, in the rural areas of Ningbo, five-color beans such as red beans, soybeans, black beans, mung beans and mung beans were mixed with white rice to make "five-color rice", which was called long summer rice. At present, some families in urban and rural areas in Ningbo still retain this ancient style, but the ingredients of long summer rice have been replaced by five other foods: broad beans, soybeans, bamboo shoots, mustard greens, and bacon or bacon, which is called five kinds of rice.

4. Black rice cake: Black rice cake is also one of the traditional snacks in the long summer. It is made by mashing black leaves and soaking them in water, soaking glutinous rice with black leaf juice to dye it black, then steaming the soaked black glutinous rice with sugar and pressing it into glutinous rice cake by hand, which has a faint black leaf flavor.

5. Long summer tea: In order to meet the long summer, there is a custom of drinking tea in Jiangxi, China. It is said that if you don't drink long summer tea, you will suffer all summer. On the day of long summer, women will gather seven kinds of tea and cook and drink together, saying that drinking seven kinds of tea in long summer can ensure that you will not feel sleepy all summer.