Eat traditional foods in the long summer: eggs, long summer tea, long summer Xia Guo, long summer soup, Junte cuisine, wheat silkworm, foot bone bamboo shoots, Qijia porridge, long summer rice and so on.

Eating eggs in the long summer is a long-standing traditional custom. As a very common food in life, eggs have high nutritional value, so eating eggs in the long summer not only means perfection, but also is good for health. There is also a tradition of eating gentleman's dishes in the long summer, which are seasonal vegetables listed around the long summer. It is said that eating Junda cuisine in summer will not cause prickly heat, and the skin will be as smooth as Junda.

The ancients thought that eggs were round, symbolizing a complete life. Eating eggs in summer can pray for peace in summer. "Eating eggs in long summer is not summer when it is hot." Many places have the custom of eating eggs in long summer, which means that eating eggs in long summer can prevent common summer symptoms such as loss of appetite, fatigue and emaciation.

Long summer is the seventh solar term in the twenty-four solar terms of the lunar calendar and the first solar term in summer, which indicates the official start of the summer season. When the sun reaches 45 degrees of the yellow meridian, it is the solar term of long summer. The bucket refers to the southeast, and the dimension is long in summer. Everything has grown to this day, hence the name Long Summer.