What's the point of eating five-color rice in long summer?

It means prosperity and good health all the year round.

Green trees, deep shadows, long summer, the reflection of the tower in the pond. Long summer, the seventh of the 24 solar terms, means that summer is coming and spring is over. Since ancient times, people have attached great importance to the customs and habits of long summer. After the long summer, the busy farming began and the weather changed from warm to hot. People not only pray for a bumper harvest of crops, but also pray for the health of their families in hot summer, which leads to the custom of welcoming summer food. On the same day of the long summer in ancient times, emperors would lead civil and military officials to the suburbs to hold ceremonies to welcome the summer, as well as folk customs such as tasting new things, fighting eggs and weighing people in the long summer, all of which contained people's yearning for a happy life in the future.

Five-colored rice was a kind of food in that long summer. Traditional five-color rice uses five kinds of beans: red beans, soybeans, black beans, mung beans and mung beans. With the continuous improvement of living conditions, the composition of five-color rice has also changed. In many places, sausages and corn are used instead of beans in pursuit of better taste. The long summer is coming. Don't forget to steam this "five-color rice", which means a colorful life.