The common food in long summer in the south is long summer eggs. On the festival day, people will cook eggs with tea leaves or walnut shells. People think that eating eggs at this time can strengthen the body. Children like to weave boiled eggs with colorful ropes and hang them on their chests. It is said that this can prevent heatstroke and reduce fatigue. Five-color rice is eaten in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, that is, broad beans, amaranth, diced mushrooms, diced bacon, carrots and other ingredients are cooked together with rice, which means "five grains are abundant" and the whole family is prayed for good health.

Long summer porridge is a custom of people in Hunan. It is made of more than ten kinds of ingredients, such as lean meat, vermicelli, glutinous rice balls, red dates, pig offal, dried bamboo shoots, red dates, peas and bean sprouts. It is rich in nutrition and fragrant.

In some areas in the south, there is a habit of weighing people. On festivals, people hang scales under big trees outdoors to weigh children and the elderly to test their physical changes over the past year. A stool is hung on the scale hook, and everyone takes turns sitting on the stool to weigh people. While weighing flowers, the weigher spoke auspicious words.

In addition, there are activities of offering sacrifices to welcome summer, which are rare today. In ancient times, it was to welcome the arrival of summer, and it was very ceremonial. Children are popular in the game of fighting eggs, and the last eggshell is the winner.