Popular legend has it that eating eggs in the summer is called "making up for the summer", so that people will not lose weight in the summer, do not lose weight, and have enough energy to work. Chinese medicine said salted duck eggs eaten in the summer people have strength. In folklore, there is "eat eggs in the summer, stone tread rotten", meaning that eating eggs in the summer, people will be strong enough. Whenever the summer, Suzhou people have to the child's neck hanging a salted duck egg custom, used to press the evil, duck is "pressure" of the harmonic, salted duck eggs is "evil pressure egg". This custom originated in the Three Kingdoms era. At that time, Suzhou was Sun Quan's sphere of influence. Sun Quan was very dissatisfied with Liu Bei for borrowing Jingzhou and not returning it. Liu Bei was worried that Sun Shangxiang was not doing well in Dongwu, so he sent his envoys to Dongwu to greet her and weigh her in order to judge how she was doing. As it turned out, the people of Dong Wu did not weigh themselves at all. The envoy came up with an idea. On the day of the first day of summer, he sent people to set up big scales in the streets of Suzhou, and when a child was weighed, he would be given a salted duck egg, which was put in a small mesh bag with colorful silk threads and hung around the child's neck. And rumor has it that: the children called hook hold, meaning that it is not easy to die young, fast growth; adults called weighing heart, appetite, not resistance to summer. So adults and children are on the scale weighing. Sun Shangxiang also very happy to weigh. Summer weighing eat salted duck eggs, this custom is so passed down, and still retained.

Salted duck eggs practice Main ingredients: 10 duck eggs, seasoning: 2 star anise, pepper 1/2 tablespoon, cinnamon 2 sections, 200 ml of white wine, 1 teaspoon of fennel, 2 cloves, 15 grams of glucose. Directions: 1: Pour cinnamon, star anise, cumin, peppercorns and cloves into a pot, add 1 liter of water and bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to low and cook for 10 minutes, then let cool completely and set aside. 2, duck eggs gently wash and dry water, pour white wine into a bowl, dry water duck eggs one by one immersed in white wine roll again, so that its body soaked with wine, and then put out into the salt roll again, so that the duck eggs are dipped in salt all over the body. 3, put the salted duck eggs gently into a clean sealed container without water and oil, and then evenly poured into the glucose powder and the rest of the salt, and then poured into the spice water that has been thoroughly cooled, so that the water does not exceed the duck eggs. 4, and then finally rolled over the duck eggs of white wine all poured into the jar, sealed and placed in a cool ventilated place for 45 days can be eaten.