Spring eat spring cake; summer different regions, Jiangsu and Zhejiang area to eat "seven porridge"; autumn southern people "gnawing autumn melon", northerners eat dumplings; winter in the southern region, winter to eat sugar cane, fried rice, in the north, the rules of winter is to eat dumplings.

1, Li Chun, is the first of the twenty-four solar terms, also known as the first month of the festival, the Spring Festival, the first of the year, the first day of the year, etc..

The beginning of spring means that a new cycle has begun, and it is the beginning of all things, the meaning of all things new. It means "beginning"; spring represents warmth and growth. The stem and branch of the chronicle, with the first spring as the beginning of the year, the first spring is both the beginning of spring and the first of the year. Major worship of gods and ancestors, prayers for the New Year, welcoming the spring and farming festivals were arranged on the day of the first spring and the days before and after it; this series of festivals not only constituted the framework of the first-of-the-year festivals in later generations, but also its folkloric functions have been survived to this day.

2. Lixia, the seventh of the twenty-four solar terms, is the first solar term of summer, indicating the official start of the summer season.

Zhejiang Shengzhou people believe that in the summer to eat eggs on the (meaning "support") heart, eat bamboo shoots on the leg, eat peas on the eye;

Changsha, Hunan people eat glutinous rice flour mixed with sage made of soup balls, the name "summer soup", folk proverb cloud "Eat a summer soup, hemp stone stepped into a pit", "summer to eat a ball (pronounced "lump"), a foot across the river", meaning that the strength is unparalleled, light as a swallow;

Shanghai suburbs Farmers in the summer with wheat flour and sugar made of inch-long strips of food, called "wheatworms", people ate, said free of "Resistance and Resistance to summer";

Tongshan County, Hubei Province, the folk of the summer as an important festival, the Tongshan people ate summer bubbles (strawberries), shrimp, Bamboo shoots, called "eat bubble bright eyes, eat shrimp, eat bamboo shoots strong feet bone";

Southern Fujian eat shrimp noodles in the summer, that is, to buy shrimp mixed into the noodles to cook, shrimp cooked red, for the auspicious color, and shrimp and the summer resonance, this is the wish for the summer.

3, Autumn, Autumn, is the twenty-four seasons in the 13th solar term, but also the first solar term of autumn, marking the official start of the Mengqiu season, from this day onwards the beginning of autumn, high and cool, moonlight and wind. Thereafter, the temperature gradually decreases from the hottest.

In the south, there is "autumn gnawing autumn melon" custom, in the autumn of the day to eat more watermelon, in order to prevent the autumn dryness, and over time to form a custom.

Northern people eat dumplings, "stick autumn fat".

4, winter, winter is a seasonal type of season, winter means that winter has since begun. After the winter, sunshine hours will continue to shorten and the height of the midday sun will continue to decrease.

In Shantou, people eat fragrant rice made of lotus seeds, mushrooms, chestnuts, shrimp, carrots, etc., which are also warm foods

In the north, the rule of standing winter is to eat dumplings, because dumplings are shaped like ears on the outside, and it is believed that if you eat them, your ears won't be frozen in winter.