What does Chang Xia eat here in Changzhou?

Eating eggs and eating eggs in long summer is the "highlight" of Changzhou people's long summer festival. From the day of long summer, the weather has been sunny and warm, and it has gradually become hot. Children will feel tired, lose appetite and gradually lose weight. This is the so-called "summer". Legend has it that Nu Wa Niangniang told the people that as long as the cooked chicken, duck and goose eggs are hung on the children's chests, they can avoid summer.

So on this day in summer, children hang an egg cover made of silk around their necks, which contains boiled eggs and duck eggs. They touch each other with eggs, which is called fighting eggs.

The ancients thought that a round egg symbolizes a complete life, and eating eggs in summer can pray for peace in summer. People boil eggs in leftover tea. Later, they improved the method of boiling eggs by adding fennel, cinnamon and Jiang Mo. Tea, boiled and then poured into the good yellow wine, fragrant and delicious, which is also the origin of tea eggs.

Old Changzhou people call the tea eggs they ate on the day of long summer "long summer eggs". As the old saying goes, "If you eat an egg in long summer, the slate will be crushed into pieces", which describes the great strength after eating the tea eggs.