Traditional foods eaten in Lixia: eggs, Lixia tea, Lixia soup, Juntai vegetables, wheatworms, foot bone bamboo shoots, seven family porridge, Lixia rice and so on.

The summer season health food: duck eggs, lettuce, Poria, wheat, bitter melon, pig heart, lotus seeds, mung beans, millet, lotus root and so on.

After the summer diet principle is "spring and summer Yang", Yang focus on the heart, the heart can drink more milk, eat more soy products, chicken, lean meat, etc., both supplemental nutrients, but also play a strong role in the heart. Usually eat more vegetables, fruits and coarse grains, can increase the supply of fiber, vitamin B, C, can play a role in preventing atherosclerosis.

Summer rice, also known as "burning summer summer rice". In the old days, Han children burned rice on the summer day. Popular in Xiangjiang Hangzhou area. The day before the first day of summer, the children from the neighboring households to ask for a bowl of rice, known as "Tu Xia Xia rice". They dig up some bamboo shoots, "steal" some broad beans, and use some garlic cloves. On the day of summer, the rice and ingredients will be cooked in the open air, put plums, cherries, etc. on the rice, and send it to the people who gave it to the family a few days ago, and a small bowl for the first family. Folk believe that children eat, can prevent heat stroke.

Every summer, the day before the first day of summer, the children to the neighboring households to ask for a bowl of rice, called "Duxia summer rice". They dig up some bamboo shoots, "steal" some fava beans, and use some garlic cloves. On the first day of summer, we will pocket the rice and ingredients to cook in the open air, put plums, cherries, etc. on the rice, and send it to the people who gave it to the family the day before, and each family will have a small bowl of it. Folk believe that children eat, can prevent heat stroke.