What's particular about the Summer Festival in Old Beijing? For example, beginning of spring pays attention to eating spring rolls, and in winter, jiaozi, ...

Eat lily duck in the summer festival in old Beijing. Old duck tastes sweet and cool, so people have the tradition of eating duck in summer, and there are many ways to do it, such as boiled duck and walnut duck.

The "Summer Lily Duck" in Daoxiang Village, Beijing, uses lily, dried tangerine peel, honey, chrysanthemum and other ingredients to nourish the lungs and produce fluid to cook the old duck, which is delicious and nutritious.

Daoxiang Village in Beijing has also compiled a "Food Health Manual for the Twenty-four Solar Terms" for the public, which is distributed free of charge in stores and communities to better popularize the health knowledge of the Twenty-four Solar Terms.

The folk customs around the summer solar terms are mostly related to ancestor worship and welcoming autumn.

Around the summer vacation, there will be folk activities to celebrate the Central Plains, commonly known as "July 30" or "Central Plains Festival".

In the old days, there was a ceremony to open the gate of hell from the beginning of July until the gate of hell closed at the end of the month, and Purdue giving activities were held.

It is said that Purdue activities started with the opening of the gate of hell, and then lanterns were erected and river lanterns were set off, causing lonely souls and wild ghosts; The main body is to build Pudu altar, build solitary shed, and intervene in robbing orphans. Finally, it ends with closing the gate of hell.