When it comes to food in long summer, the most important thing is long summer egg, which is a classic food in long summer. It is usually cooked with tea powder or walnut shells, and the eggshells turn red slowly, making the house delicious. Then pick out an unbroken egg from the boiled egg, weave it into an egg cover with colored thread, and hang it on the child's chest or on the curtain. Children also need to lean on long summer eggs (that is, touch them).

Speaking of long summer eggs, how did they come from? As the saying goes, "long summer eats eggs, and it won't be summer in hot weather." Every summer, Heaven and Man are particularly prone to fatigue and limb weakness, while Nu Wa Niangniang tells the people that if long summer eggs are hung on children's chests, this symptom can be avoided.

What does long summer eat? Step 2 eat soft vegetables

In some places in the south, long summer has the custom of eating soft vegetables (Junta vegetables), saying that after eating, there will be no prickly heat in summer, and the skin will be as smooth as soft vegetables.

What does long summer eat? Step 3 eat shrimp noodles

In the old days, long summer, southern Fujian, ate shrimp noodles and cooked them with noodles. When the shrimps were cooked, they turned red, which was auspicious, and the shrimps were homophonic with summer to express their wishes for summer.

What does long summer eat? Step 4 eat "light cakes"

In some areas of Fujian, long summer has the custom of eating "light cakes".

What does long summer eat? 5. "Seven porridge"

Long summer, a rural area in eastern Zhejiang, eats "seven-family porridge", which is a large pot of porridge made up of rice from neighbors, beans and sugar, which is shared by everyone. It is said that after eating this kind of porridge, the neighborhood is harmonious and I am bent on going to summer sowing, Xia Geng.