1, Eat Eggs: In Hangzhou, there is a saying that "eat eggs in the long summer, stones trample on eggs", which means that people will be full of energy when eating eggs in the long summer. The children hung an egg cover made of silk thread around their necks, filled with boiled eggs and duck eggs. Some of them draw patterns on eggs and try their best to compete with each other. This is called egg collision.

2. Weighing people: There is a custom of weighing people after lunch in the long summer. The ancient poem goes: "Long summer is called a person, hanging on a beam and laughing." People hang a big wooden scale and a stool on the hook, and everyone takes turns sitting on the stool to weigh people. The weigher said auspicious words while weighing people.

3. Eating porridge: According to local historical records, in ancient China, people formed the custom of eating porridge and hanging eggs during the annual "Long Summer" solar term. According to folklore, drinking long summer porridge on this day in long summer can ensure peace for a year, and there is no disease or disaster. Although it is only a legend, this custom maintains people's yearning for a better life.

4. Eat long summer rice: On this day of long summer, according to the traditional customs of China people, we must eat all kinds of rice in different ways. Black rice, peas and glutinous rice ... The main ingredient is the most common rice, but because of the addition of various seasonal materials, different colors will also attract people's appetite.

On the day of long summer, southerners like to mix white rice with five-color beans such as red beans, soybeans, black beans, green beans and mung beans to cook "five-color rice", commonly known as "long summer rice". In the long summer, black rice is also a good food. The production of black rice is actually very simple: first, smash the black leaves, soak them in cold water, then remove the residue, then soak the washed glutinous rice in the black leaf juice, soak the glutinous rice and make it black, then steam it in an iron pan, and finally sprinkle some sugar, and you're done. It is said that this custom originated from Sun Bin, a famous strategist in the Warring States Period.

5. Try new things: In many places, there is a custom of "trying new things in the long summer". People taste seasonal food for health and good luck. For example, eat cherry, tender bud, green broad bean, garlic sprout, amaranth, green plum and other newly listed fruits and vegetables. Eat more fruits and vegetables.