Customs inventory in North China and South China in Changsha;
After the long summer, it is another hot summer. People eat some food in the long summer, usually hoping to pray for peace.
For example, people in Shengzhou, Zhejiang believe that eating eggs with crutches (meaning "raising"), eating bamboo shoots with crutches, and eating peas with crutches in summer;
People in Changsha, Hunan eat glutinous rice flour mixed with sage in summer, which is called "long summer soup". There is a folk saying that "eat long summer soup and learn from into the pit" and "eat a ball in long summer (pronounced" Tuo ") and cross the river with one foot", which means that he is extremely powerful and as light as a swallow;
Farmers in the suburbs of Shanghai make strip-shaped food with wheat flour and sugar in summer, which is called "wheat silkworm". When people eat them, they can avoid "summer".
People in Tongshan County, Hubei Province regard the long summer as an important festival. Chang Xia, a native of Tongshan, eats soaked strawberries, shrimps and bamboo shoots, which is called "eating soaked eyes, eating shrimps is strong, and eating bamboo shoots strengthens the feet and bones".
Eating shrimp noodles in southern Fujian in the long summer is to buy shrimp and cook it in the noodles. Shrimp turns red when cooked, indicating good luck. Shrimp is homophonic with summer, which is a wish for summer.
East Fujian mainly eats "light cakes" (flour baked with a little salt) in the long summer.
Zhouning, Fu 'an and other places in eastern Fujian soaked the light cake in water and made it into dishes, while Jiaocheng, Fuding and other places cut the light cake in half and ate fried bean sprouts, leeks, meat and waste vegetables.
Some villages in Chunchi Town, zhouning county eat "long summer paste", which can be divided into rice paste and sweet potato paste. Cook the soup in a large pot. The content of soup is extremely rich, including meat, small bamboo shoots, wild vegetables, chicken and duck water, tofu and so on. Neighbors invited each other to drink paste soup. This is similar to the custom of eating "Qijia porridge" in the rural areas of eastern Zhejiang in the long summer.
In the long summer, in the rural areas of eastern Zhejiang, there is a custom of eating "seven porridge", that is, farmers give each other beans and rice and cook a pot of porridge with yellow sugar, which is called "seven porridge". It is said that after eating this kind of porridge, the neighborhood is harmonious, and they are bent on going to Xia Geng for summer sowing.