What should I eat in the long summer? What's the custom!

In our country, there are many customs in the long summer. Everything is not romantic, but it is closely related to daily life and has simple wishes for the future. I want to eat peas and glutinous rice in the long summer, and I can "expect" after eating peas.

On the day of long summer, it is "black rice" that can be on an equal footing with peas and glutinous rice. Black rice is said to have existed as early as the Tang Dynasty. At that time, Yixing, Liyang, Jintan and southern Anhui cooked black rice with black leaves on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month. Later, probably because the eighth day of April was very close to the solar term in the long summer, eating black rice gradually became a custom in the long summer.

There is also a saying in the older generation that eating black rice in summer will not be bitten by mosquitoes all summer.

There is another custom worth mentioning in the long summer-calling people (there are also places where people are called). The old man said that Chang Xia said that people can bring blessings and pray for physical and mental health to prevent "summer" and spend the hot summer smoothly.