Special delicacies of the Beginning of Summer:

1. Beginning of Summer eggs

There are also some dietary customs related to eggs on the day of Beginning of Summer, such as eating Beginning of Summer eggs. As the saying goes: "If you eat eggs at the beginning of summer, you will not suffer from summer heat." It means that if you eat more eggs, your body will be as strong as an ox. People will boil eggs or duck eggs with tea leaves and eat them. Moreover, the ancients believed that round eggs symbolize a happy life, especially for those with children at home. Eating eggs at the beginning of summer can pray for peace in the summer and good health.

2. Beginning of Summer Rice

Many places will eat Beginning of Summer Rice on the day of Beginning of Summer. After eating a bowl of Beginning of Summer Rice, summer has truly arrived. This kind of Beginning of Summer rice, "Lixia rice" is also called Shaoxiaxia rice or five-color rice. It is made of peas, mushrooms, bacon, etc. cooked with glutinous rice. Although the ingredients are different in each place, they are all five kinds. The ingredients come in five colors and are rich in nutrients, which means a good harvest and good health all year round. Peas are the most delicious beans in this season. They are nutritious and delicious. Don’t miss them.

3. Lixia Kueh

There is a custom of eating "Lixia Kueh" in Yiyang, Jiangxi. Lixia Kueh is a kind of rice dumplings and glutinous rice balls eaten during the Lixia Festival. After the rice is cooked, mash it into round strips, then roll it into balls, and cook it with pork, soybean sprouts, peas, dried shrimps and other condiments to make a soup. According to legend, eating Lixia Kueh means welcoming spring and welcoming summer. The more varieties there are, the richer the spring harvest will be and the celebration will be more than enough.

4. Beginning of Summer Porridge

Beginning of Summer Porridge is a porridge cooked for the Beginning of Summer in Leiyang, Hunan Province. It has extremely high nutritional value. It is made of glutinous rice balls, peas, lean meat, Tofu, vermicelli, spring bamboo shoots, pork liver...a variety of seasonal ingredients are used as auxiliary ingredients and added to rice to make it. On the day of Beginning of Summer, every household will cook this kind of porridge, and then drink it in exchange, which not only tastes the joy of the festival, but also promotes the neighborhood.

5. Taste the three delicacies

There is a proverb in folk festival customs: "Try the three delicacies at the beginning of summer." That is to say, taste more delicacies on the day of the beginning of summer. The so-called fresh food has different definitions in different places. Generally divided into three delicacies: ground delicacies, tree delicacies and water delicacies. The three delicacies produced in the ground are amaranth, broad beans, and pea cakes; the three delicacies growing on the trees are cherries, green plums, and toon heads; the three delicacies produced in the water are snails, river shrimps, and anchovies. The habit of eating "three fresh foods" in the Beginning of Summer is a dietary manifestation of respecting the laws of nature.