The things to eat at the beginning of summer in Taihu, Anhui are as follows:

1. Beginning of summer eggs. Although traditional food customs on Beginning of Summer have their own characteristics across the country, the most classic food on Beginning of Summer is "Beginning of Summer Eggs". The day before the Beginning of Summer, many people start cooking "Beginning of Summer Eggs" at home. They usually boil them with powdered tea leaves or walnut shells. Watching the eggshells slowly turn red, the house is filled with a fragrant aroma. Tea eggs should be eaten while they are hot. When eating, pour some good wine and sprinkle some fine salt inside. The wine is fragrant and the tea is fragrant, fragrant and delicious.

2. Five-color rice. In the old days, in the countryside, red beans, soybeans, black beans, green beans, mung beans and other five-color beans were mixed with white japonica rice to cook "five-color rice", which was called Beginning of Summer rice.

3. Eat shrimp noodles. In the old days, shrimp noodles were eaten at the beginning of summer. Shrimps were mixed into the noodles and cooked. When the shrimps are cooked, they turn red, which is an auspicious color. Shrimp is a homonym for summer, so as to express wishes for summer.

4. Cook the summer while cooking the tripod. On the Beginning of Summer Festival, it is a popular custom in Fuzhou to "cook summer" while cooking a tripod. Dingbian paste is cooked with rice milk in a shabu-shabu pot, and is served with shrimp, shrimp oil, green onions, daylily, black fungus, clams, or a small amount of mushrooms, dried razor clams and other seafood soup. It tastes extremely meaty and delicious.

5. Beginning of Summer porridge. Lixia porridge is a traditional Han snack and belongs to the Lixia Festival food. This snack is a must-have in your diet. It has always attached great importance to farming and mulberry activities, and is particularly sensitive to the twenty-four solar terms. According to historical records, the custom of cooking Lixia porridge began in the Leiyang area of ??Hunan from the late Ming Dynasty to the early Qing Dynasty. To cook the Beginning of Summer porridge, you need to dig a pit on the spot at the end of the village and street, set up a large iron pot, light a fire to cook the porridge, and the smoke is curling up. It can be called a veritable picnic.