Traditional foods eaten during the Beginning of Summer: eggs, Beginning of Summer tea, Beginning of Summer soup, Junta vegetables, wheat silkworms, leg bone bamboo shoots, Qijia porridge, Beginning of Summer rice, etc.

Healthy foods during the Beginning of Summer: duck eggs, lettuce, poria, wheat, bitter melon, pig heart, lotus seeds, mung beans, millet, lotus root, etc.

Every day before the beginning of summer, children ask for a bowl of rice from the neighboring households, which is called "Douxiaxiami". Dig some bamboo shoots, "steal" some broad beans, and use some garlic sprouts. In the beginning of summer, cook the rice and ingredients in the open air. Put green plums, cherries, etc. on the rice and distribute it to the families who gave the rice the day before. Each family has a small bowl. . It is believed that children can prevent heat stroke after eating it.

Rice bran cake, also known as rice cake or rice cake, is a special snack eaten during the Beginning of Summer in Shangrao, Jiangxi. In Shangrao, there is not only the custom of eating glutinous rice cakes, but also an interesting game of calling people. It is said that Lixia said that people can be physically strong and support Midsummer. In addition, people in Shangrao often say, "You can only gamble on strength, not on food." During the Beginning of Summer, young and middle-aged people will ask their companions to do activities such as wrenching or squeezing poles one-on-one to compete with each other after eating glutinous rice cakes.