1, long summer egg
The ancients thought that the shape of an egg was round, symbolizing a complete life. Eating eggs in summer can pray for peace in summer. Boil the eggs in tea powder or walnut shells, sprinkle some fine salt, and watch the eggshells turn red and smell all over the house. With the above good wine, the wine is delicious.
2. Long summer rice
The custom of eating "Long Summer Rice" in Changsha and Jiangnan has gradually evolved into "Rice with diced bamboo shoots and bacon". Stir-fry diced bacon, diced potatoes, diced bamboo shoots and diced peas in an oil pan, add appropriate amount of sugar and soy sauce to taste, stir-fry with rice and glutinous rice, and stew with water until cooked. The fragrance of bamboo shoots and peas is sweet, and the salty taste of bacon does not need any seasoning.
3. Black rice
Black rice is not cooked with black rice, but leaves of a wild shrub called "black rice leaves" are washed, rubbed and drained, and then glutinous rice is weighed and soaked according to the proportion of black leaf juice. After soaking day and night, white glutinous rice turned into "black" glutinous rice. Then drain the black leaf juice, steam it in a cage, sprinkle sugar when you take it out, and you can eat it.
4. Long summer tea
There is a custom of drinking tea in Jiangxi and Yangzhou in the long summer. In ancient times, long summer tea was also called seven-leaf tea, and it was necessary to collect seven-leaf tea and cook it together. Modern people drink more tea that can clear away heat and relieve summer heat, such as green tea and Longjing tea.
5, long summer fruit
Chang Xia Guo, also known as Chang Xia Guo, is a special food in Yiyang, Jiangxi Province. According to legend, eating long Xia Guo means sending spring to welcome summer. The more varieties, the richer the spring harvest and the more festive it is.