"Eating eggs in the long summer" generally refers to eating eggs, so it is better to make tea eggs. The custom of "eating eggs in the long summer" has a long history. As the saying goes, "if you eat eggs in the long summer, it will not be summer when it is hot." According to legend, since the day of long summer, the weather has been sunny and warm, and it has gradually become hot. Many people, especially children, will feel tired, lose their appetite and gradually lose weight. This is the so-called "squat". Nu Wa Niangniang told the people that on the day of long summer every year, cooked chicken, duck and goose eggs are hung on children's chests to avoid carbuncle. It means pouring it down and staying for a long time. Therefore, the custom of eating eggs in the long summer festival has continued to this day. The ancients thought that eggs were round and symbolized the perfection of life. Eating eggs in summer can pray for peace in summer and stand the test of "summer". Summer begins in April of the lunar calendar. "Eggs in April are as cheap as vegetables." People put eggs in leftover "Qijia tea" and cook them, which becomes "tea eggs". Later, people improved their cooking methods by adding fennel, gravy, cinnamon and Jiang Mo to Qijia tea. Since then, tea eggs have become one of the traditional snacks in China, replacing the seasonal and climatic foods in the long summer. Long summer eggs are the most classic food in that long summer. The day before long summer, long summer cooks eggs at home, usually tea or walnut shells, and the eggshells turn red slowly, making the house delicious. Eat the tea eggs while they are hot. When eating, you should pour good Shao wine and sprinkle some fine salt. The wine is fragrant. There are other ways to play besides eating eggs. Boiled eggs, pick out intact ones, weave egg covers with colored threads and hang them on the child's chest or curtains. Children also have to lean on long summer eggs (that is, touch eggs), which is the happiest and most exciting thing of the day. By eggs, the shell is firm but not broken. Besides eating long summer eggs, we should also eat some other seasonal things on this day. People often say that eating fresh peas will make your eyes bright. You should also eat "foot bone bamboo shoots", that is, black bamboo shoots. After cooking, they are three or four inches long and need not be cut. When eating, you should pick two bamboo shoots with the same thickness and eat them in one bite, saying that eating them can make your feet healthy, which means good health. In the past, there was a custom of calling people in the summer. Large scale, adults pull the scale hook with both hands, and children sit in the laundry basket or long-handled bamboo basket and hang it on the scale hook to weigh themselves. Old people say that weighing in long summer can avoid summer. If you gain weight, it's called "gaining weight"; if you lose weight, it's called "losing weight". There are still some taboos on the day of long summer. For example, avoid sitting on stone steps. If you sit down, you should make up seven, so that all the diseases can dissipate. Avoid sitting on the threshold, saying that sitting on the threshold on this day will cause sore feet and bone pain in summer. If you take one, you have to take six roads to synthesize seven numbers to solve the nightmare. Now everyone lives in the same building, and there is no threshold. And you can't go to bed during the day, otherwise it will be summer. In Fuzhou, cooking ding and "cooking in summer" are popular. Fixed-edge paste (also called pot-edge paste) is made of rice paste in a pot, with shrimp, shrimp oil, onion, lily, black fungus, clams, or a small amount of seafood clear soup such as mushrooms and dried clams. It tastes extremely delicious. Anyone who grows up in Fuzhou or lives in Fuzhou for a long time loves to eat it. It has become a famous flavor snack and a special symbol of Fuzhou. Fuzhou people who have left their hometown to live abroad, when they hear the word "Dingbian paste" in a foreign country, seem to see the "beautiful image" of their hometown and become a flavor snack that loves their hometown. In addition, Nanjing also has the custom of "tasting three new things in the long summer". "Sanxin" refers to cherry, green plum and shad. In addition, there is the custom of "sending summer". Parents give their married daughters cool pillows, feather fans and summer clothes. People in Nanjing also like to eat pea cakes. "Jinling Years Old" says: "It is not summer to ask children to ride the threshold and eat pea cakes in the long summer." Legend has it that the eighth day of April is the Buddha Bath Festival (Sakyamuni's birthday), where Buddhist disciples in the western regions worship with black rice, and domestic Buddhists also imitate it. Because black rice is delicious and healthy, people in the long summer scramble to cook black rice for relatives and friends, so it becomes popular. Farmers in Lishui and other places also use black rice to make wine. Lishui black rice wine usually makes an altar when a girl is born, and can't be drunk until the girl grows up and gets married, so this wine is particularly mellow and delicious. Modern people mostly use black glutinous rice instead of black millet, which also means good health and family harmony.