1. The traditional foods that Xiao Shu eats are: eating three treasures, eating fresh food, eating jiaozi, eating eggs, eating lotus roots and so on. Eating three treasures, there is a folk proverb "a little summer heat, steaming on the top and cooking on the bottom." The arrival of a little summer heat means that it is about to enter the dog days.

At this time, the weather is hot, and people have the custom of eating eel, honey lotus root and mung bean sprouts. Eating new dishes, there is a custom of eating new dishes in the north. After grinding the newly cut rice into rice, farmers offered sacrifices to the grain gods and ancestors, and everyone tasted new wine to pray for the ancestors to bless the good weather.