Eat traditional food in long summer: eggs, long summer tea, long summer soup, military vegetables, wheat silkworm, foot bone bamboo shoots, Qijia porridge, long summer rice and so on.

Long summer solar term health food: duck eggs, lettuce, poria cocos, wheat, bitter gourd, pig heart, lotus seeds, mung beans, millet, lotus roots and so on.

Twenty-four solar terms: Long Summer and April Festival. Gigi Lai Jie Jian Chun ". Long summer is the seventh solar term in the twenty-four solar terms of the lunar calendar, and it is also the first solar term in summer.

In the folk, people drink cold drinks in summer to cool off the heat. In summer, there is a custom of boiling tender broad beans in Jiangnan water town. There is also a folk custom of being afraid of weighing in summer, and there is also a custom of drinking tea in long summer in Jiangxi, saying that if you don't drink long summer tea, you will suffer all summer.

In farming civilization, long summer is a very important solar term. Ancient emperors always led civil and military officials to the southern suburbs of Beijing to hold a ceremony to welcome summer, while in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, there is a custom to celebrate summer, as if to bid farewell to spring. Among the people, there is a saying that if summer is not welcome, there will be disaster and robbery.