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What traditional foods are eaten on the summer solstice

Wonton stew.

Eating wonton stew means "chaos and harmony". It is also customary to weigh the child after eating the wonton in the hope that the child will gain weight and be healthy.

Eating wontons on the summer solstice will make you swim without fear of water. Summer is the time for swimming. Cooking wontons, and so the water boiled pot, after "three rolling three cold", see a wonton floated up can be fished up to eat. As the wontons in the water will eventually float up, will not sink to the bottom of the water. Thus, there are in the summer solstice this day ate soup wontons, swimming people will always be like wontons floating in the water, will not be flooded.