1. Eggs

Eating eggs at the beginning of summer can not only withstand the test of "sunsummer", but also bring a happy life. There is a custom of eating eggs at the beginning of summer, which can prevent common summer symptoms such as lack of appetite, tired body and limbs, and weight loss. Eggs are calm in nature, can replenish qi deficiency, and have the functions of calming the mind and nourishing the heart.

2. Wheat silkworms

On the Beginning of Summer Festival, farmers in suburban counties of Shanghai take wheat flour and sugar to make inch-long strips of food, called wheat silkworms. People eat them, saying they can avoid "Xia Xia". The tender grass heads from the Beginning of Summer are mixed with rice flour and fried into pancakes, called "tan cakes", which are a favorite food of people in Shanghai and Pudong areas. Sugar plums, fermented glutinous rice, salted eggs, etc. are also regarded as seasonal foods, which are called seasonal foods. They are tasted and called "three new foods".

3. Black rice cake

Black rice cake is also one of the traditional Beginning of Summer snacks in Ningbo. It is made by mashing the black rice leaves and soaking them in water, and soaking the glutinous rice with the juice of the black rice leaves to dye them. After turning black, the soaked black glutinous rice is steamed with sugar and then hand-pressed into glutinous rice cakes. It tastes like a faint aroma of black leaves.

4. Beginning of Summer Rice

In the old days of Beginning of Summer, in Ningbo countryside, red beans, soybeans, black beans, green beans, mung beans and other five-color beans were mixed with white japonica rice to cook "five-color rice", which is called "five-color rice". Rice for the Beginning of Summer. Nowadays, some families in urban and rural areas of Ningbo still retain this ancient custom, but the ingredients of Beginning of Summer rice have been changed to five other foods: broad beans, soybeans, bamboo shoots, mustard greens, plus soy sauce or bacon, called five kinds of rice.

5. Beginning of Summer Tea

In order to welcome the Beginning of Summer, there is also the custom of drinking Beginning of Summer tea in Jiangxi, my country. It is said that if you don’t drink Beginning of Summer tea, you will have a miserable summer. One day, the women gathered tea from seven families and cooked and drank it together. They said that drinking tea from seven families at the beginning of summer would ensure that they would not feel sleepy throughout the summer.

6. Beginning of Summer Soup

In the Beginning of Summer, people eat soup balls made of glutinous rice flour and sage grass, called "Beginning of Summer Soup". As the saying goes, "If you eat the soup at the beginning of summer, you will step on the stones to form a pit." There are often strong winds around the beginning of summer, called "Dragon King Storm". When the east wind blows out on the Beginning of Summer, it is commonly believed that there will be floods. The proverb says, "The east wind blows and rains on the Beginning of Summer." If there is thunder at the beginning of summer, there will be more thunderstorms in the future. As the saying goes, "Thunder hits at the beginning of summer, and it will happen every three days."

7. Noodles

Wheat is mostly grown in northern my country, and the Beginning of Summer is the season when wheat comes into play. Therefore, most areas in the north have the custom of making and eating pasta during the Beginning of Summer to celebrate the wheat harvest. . There are three main types of pasta in Beginning of Summer: summer cakes, noodles and spring rolls.

8. Black rice

Black rice is made by squeezing the juice from black rice leaves (also known as green leaves) and dipping glutinous rice into steamed rice. It is said that eating black rice in the Beginning of Summer will prevent you from getting sick in the summer, it can dispel wind and poison, and black mosquitoes will not dare to bite.