Fuzhou people eat Dingbian paste and light cakes at the beginning of summer.

1. Dingbian paste: also called pot side paste. On the Beginning of Summer Festival, it is a popular custom in Fuzhou to "cook summer" while cooking a tripod. It is cooked with rice milk in a shabu-shabu pot, and is served with shrimps, shrimp oil, green onions, daylily, black fungus, clams, or a small amount of mushrooms, dried razor clams and other seafood to make a clear soup. The taste is extremely meaty and delicious. Everyone who grew up in Fuzhou or has been a long-term guest in Fuzhou loves to eat it. It has become a famous snack in Fuzhou and a special symbol of Fuzhou.

2. Light cakes: Fuzhou Xia mainly eats "light cakes". Light cake is baked from flour and a little salt. People in Fuzhou soak the cakes in water and make them into dishes, while people in Jiaocheng, Fuding and other places cut the cakes in half and eat them with fried bean sprouts, leeks, meat, pickled vegetables, etc.