The origin of Lixia rice: it is said that Sun Bin, a great talent during the Warring States period, was envied by Pang Juan, who framed him and put him into the stables, and the kind-hearted soldiers sympathized with him, and used the leaves of the Wuyi tree to pound and soak the juice to mix with the glutinous rice, and then pinched them into a small dumpling after boiling and gave them to Sun Bin secretly to eat. Because of its shape, color and horse dung almost, Pang Juan never found the secret, finally Sun Bin was rescued and avenged, and later formed the custom of eating rice.

The hot summer is coming, and some places have entered the rainy season, folk people believe that children can effectively prevent heatstroke after eating the Lixia rice, plus the Lixia rice has peas, fava beans and other ingredients, there are five grains of the meaning of abundance, so eating Lixia rice in this festival has a whole year of physical well-being of the implication.

Commonly, the ingredients in the Lixia rice are very rich, adding Lei bamboo shoots, peas, broad beans, amaranth and other condiments, not only the color scheme is good, make people appetite, but also has the symbolism of the five grains of abundance, because quite a number of types of things to join together to cook, it seems particularly sumptuous. Eating five-color rice at this time of year also has the meaning of good health throughout the year.