1, long summer egg
Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai will eat salted eggs, and long summer will eat eggs on this day, which is called "summer tonic". "Long Summer Egg" is the most classic food in that long summer. It is said that eating it can prevent common discomfort such as loss of appetite, fatigue and limb weakness in summer. Long summer eggs can be boiled eggs or salted duck eggs. If you cook eggs, you usually cook them with tea powder or walnut shells. Watching the eggshells turn red slowly, the house is full of fragrance.
2. Black rice
Black rice, black and shiny, fragrant and delicious, is made by soaking glutinous rice in black leaves for several hours and then cooking. On this day of long summer, Jiangnan people love to eat. It is said that,
3, Qijia porridge
In the long summer, in rural Zhejiang, you must eat "Qijia porridge", also called "Qijia tea". Seven porridge is a big pot of porridge made of rice, beans and brown sugar from the neighbor's house. Let's share it.
4, taste three fresh
Wuxi folks have always had the custom of tasting three delicacies in the long summer. Three fresh foods are divided into three fresh foods: ground, tree and water. The three fresh plants are broad bean, amaranth and cucumber (amaranth, wheat, broad bean, amaranth, broad bean and garlic sprout); Three fresh trees are cherry, loquat and apricot (one is plum, apricot and cherry, and the other is plum, cherry and toon head); The three kinds of fresh water are marine fish, puffer fish and shad (shad, shad and yellow croaker, as well as shad, whitebait and mackerel). Among them, tasting fresh land is the most common.
5. A light cake
East Fujian mainly eats "light cakes" (flour baked with a little salt) in the long summer. Zhouning, Fu 'an and other places in eastern Fujian soaked the light cake in water and made it into dishes, while Jiaocheng, Fuding and other places cut the light cake in half and ate fried bean sprouts, leeks, meat and waste vegetables.