Why do you want to eat eggs and red dates in long summer?

Eating red dates and eggs in long summer supplements physical strength and avoids summer.

Every long summer, people eat boiled eggs or salted duck eggs, thinking that eating eggs in long summer can keep fit. And long summer eggs are the most classic food in that long summer.

"Summer" in long summer means "big", which means that plants sown in spring have grown upright. When the temperature rises obviously, the summer heat comes, thunderstorms increase and crops enter the peak season, people are used to taking long summer as an important solar term. There are three times in the long summer, the first time is the sound of insects, the second time is the appearance of earthworms, and the third time is the birth of melons. The main customs are welcoming the summer ceremony, tasting new things, playing egg games, and "weighing people" in the long summer.