What traditional food does Nantong eat in the long summer?

On the day of long summer, Nantong people like to mix white rice with five-color beans such as red beans, soybeans, black beans, mung beans and mung beans to cook "five-color rice", commonly known as "long summer rice". Every household in the folk should cook eggs and duck eggs for their children.

Long summer is the seventh of the 24 solar terms and the first in summer. Long summer indicates the change of seasons and the official start of midsummer season. When the sun reaches 45 degrees of the yellow meridian, it is a long summer, usually on May 5 or 6 of the Gregorian calendar every year. After the long summer, the temperature in southern China rose rapidly, and the rainfall and days of rainfall increased significantly.