What snacks does Hubei eat in the long summer?

Snacks eaten in Hubei in the long summer are: strawberries, glutinous rice flour, chicken heart eggs,

People in Tongshan County, Hubei Province regard the long summer as an important festival. Chang Xia, a native of Tongshan, eats soaked strawberries, shrimps and bamboo shoots, which is called "eating soaked eyes, eating shrimps is strong, and eating bamboo shoots strengthens the feet and bones".

Long summer is the seventh solar term in the twenty-four solar terms of the lunar calendar and the first solar term in summer, which indicates the official start of the summer season. When the sun reaches 45 degrees of the yellow meridian, it is the solar term of long summer. The bucket refers to the southeast, and the dimension is long in summer. Everything has grown to this day, hence the name Long Summer.

"Qijia porridge" and "Qijia tea" are another form of tasting new things in the long summer. Qijia porridge is a big pot of porridge, which is made of rice, beans and brown sugar from neighbors for everyone to share. Seven families brought white baked tea, mixed it, cooked it or soaked it into a big pot of tea, and then everyone got together to drink it.

These porridge or tea are not necessarily delicious food, but these ceremonies can be said to be important social activities in rural society in the past.

In the long summer, in the rural areas of eastern Zhejiang, there is a custom of eating "seven porridge", that is, farmers give each other beans and rice and cook a pot of porridge with yellow sugar, which is called "seven porridge". It is said that after eating this kind of porridge, the neighborhood is harmonious, and they are bent on going to Xia Geng for summer sowing.