Eating "Lixia Su" at the beginning of summer in Northeast China means sending off spring and welcoming summer, and celebrating the spring harvest. Newly launched vegetables, fruits and vegetables should be added to the "Beginning of Summer". The more varieties, the more festive they are.

Lixia Guo, also known as Lixia Kueh, is a festival food custom. A kind of rice dumplings and glutinous rice balls eaten during the Beginning of Summer Festival. They are just steamed rice, then rolled into small dumplings, and then cooked into a "soup" with bean sprouts, dried shrimps, peeled peas and other messy things. It is called "Lixia Soup" , also known as "Lixia Kueh", is a family favorite.

As the saying goes: "Eating Lixia Kueh" means you are not afraid of heavy rain (dare to work in the rain). It is said that on the day of Beginning of Summer, eating "Lixia Kueh" soup in the morning will replenish the head, eating it at lunch will replenish the waist, and eating it in the evening will replenish the feet. It can eliminate diseases and disasters and avoid summer heat.

“After a busy winter, a busy spring”, farmers who did not have enough food and clothing in the old days were the greatest satisfaction if they could have a full meal of “Begin of Summer” during this lean period. Therefore, no matter how poor a family is, even if they borrow rice, they still need to eat this "beginning of summer" meal in order to have a "rich spring harvest".