What do Shanghainese eat in the long summer?

Chang Xia, a Shanghainese, eats wheat silkworms, stalls, Sanxin, Chang Xia eggs and Chang Xia porridge. Farmers in the suburbs of Shanghai make strips of flour and sugar several inches long. This kind of food is called wheat silkworm. When people eat them, they can avoid "summer". In the long summer, tender grass heads and rice noodles are fried into cakes, which are called "stalls" and are deeply loved by Shanghai and Pudong people. Sugar plum, fermented grains, salted eggs, etc. It is also a seasonal food, calling it fresh and tasting it "three new".

Chang Xia, a Shanghainese, eats wheat silkworms, stalls, Sanxin, Chang Xia eggs and Chang Xia porridge. Farmers in the suburbs of Shanghai make strips of flour and sugar several inches long. This kind of food is called wheat silkworm. When people eat them, they can avoid "summer". In the long summer, tender grass heads and rice noodles are fried into cakes, which are called "stalls" and are deeply loved by Shanghai and Pudong people. Sugar plum, fermented grains, salted eggs, etc. It is also a seasonal food, calling it fresh and tasting it "three new".

There is also a saying that it is forbidden to sit on the threshold in summer. It is said that sitting on the threshold on this day will make you tired and sick in summer. In the 1930s, the Annals of Ningguo County recorded: "Long summer. Weighing the human body with scales to avoid diseases means that you are not afraid of summer. It is said that sitting on the threshold in the long summer will be depressed for a year. " Long summer is one of the 24 solar terms on May 5 or 6 of the Gregorian calendar every year. It marks the departure of spring, the beginning of summer and the end of spring. People often regard long summer as an important solar term in the peak season of crop growth.