What to eat in Zhangping at the beginning of summer

Traditional foods eaten at the beginning of the summer: eggs, tea, soup, juniper berries, wheatworms, foot bone shoots, seven family porridge, rice, etc..

Traditional foods eaten at the beginning of summer: duck eggs, lettuce, poria, wheat, bitter gourd, pig heart, lotus seeds, green beans, millet, lotus root, etc.

"Monthly 72 wait Jiejie": "Li Xia, April Festival. The word "Lixia" is explained in the spring. Lixia is the seventh of the twenty-four solar terms in the lunar calendar, the first solar term of summer.

In folklore, on the day of summer, people drink cold beverages to beat the heat. On the day of summer, Jiangnan water towns have the custom of cooking young broad beans. Folk also fear the summer heat and weigh the custom, Jiangxi area and the custom of drinking tea in the summer, said not to drink tea in the summer, will be a summer of suffering.

In the farming civilization, the summer is a very important festival, the ancient emperors will lead the civil and military officials to the southern outskirts of the capital to hold a ceremony to welcome the summer, and in the area of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, there is a summer farewell spring custom, as if it is in the spring to say goodbye. In folklore, there are more than welcome summer day, there will be a disaster haunting the saying.