1, summer solstice cake, as the saying goes, "summer solstice, summer solstice, eat all the wheat cakes." The custom of the Summer Solstice Festival has existed since ancient times, and people will share the Summer Solstice cake after offering sacrifices to their ancestors. Summer solstice cake, half moon cake, looks similar to the northern pasta leek box, but the materials and methods are different. The most common way is to mash wormwood, mix it with wheat flour, add a proper amount of sweet noodle sauce in the middle of the cake, and bake the cake with a hot pot. Summer solstice cake looks ugly, but it tastes fresh and refreshing, sweet but not greasy. It is a real green food suitable for all ages.

2, wonton, in Wuxi, a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, there is a custom of eating wonton on the summer solstice. Wonton has a long history and is known as "like a chicken laying eggs, rather like chaos in heaven and earth". Take the meaning of chaos and say that eating wonton can make you smart. When eating wonton in the summer solstice, some people mix noodles in the wonton to avoid "summer". Compared with the long day time of the summer solstice, the length of noodles is a good color to prolong life.

3. Summer solstice noodles, there is a folk saying that "eating summer solstice noodles, one day is shorter than the first line", that is, the daytime time begins to get shorter. Eating noodles on the summer solstice is an important custom in many areas. As the saying goes, "jiaozi eats noodles on the winter solstice", and it is the right time to eat noodles on the summer solstice. There are many kinds of noodles in the south, such as Yangchun noodles, dry soup noodles, shredded pork noodles, three fresh noodles, sesame oil noodles, cold noodles, etc. In the north, noodles with gravy and noodles with dregs are the main ones. On the summer solstice, noodle restaurants in the north are very popular. No matter Sichuan cold noodles, Dandan Noodles, braised pork noodles or zhajiang noodles, all kinds of noodles are very popular.

4, pea cake, on the day of the summer solstice, there was a custom of eating pea cakes before and after the summer solstice. The origin of this custom is because the weather is hot in summer, and people don't think about diet. Let the children eat pea cakes to appetize first, and feel the summer harvest while appetizing. "Shanxi Tourism Survey" said, "Summer cold dishes are one of the famous snacks in Taiyuan, and the pea cake made by Jia Dewang, the chef of Dadongguan Hotel, has long been famous in Jinyang".

5, summer solstice eggs, folks believe that eating eggs on the summer solstice can strengthen the body and strengthen the stomach, and walk with great energy. As the saying goes, "the summer solstice eats eggs and the slate is trampled." On the day of the summer solstice, the whole egg is cooked, the skin of the egg is dyed red with red paper or red dye, then it is put into a small net bag, tied on the chest of children, hung until noon or afternoon, and then the eggshell is peeled off to eat eggs. This practice is widely circulated in Hengyang, Chenzhou, Yongzhou and Xiangxi in southern Hunan.