1, Chinese medicine believes that "summer qi is connected with heart qi", and it is necessary to pay attention to going to bed early and getting up early in the long summer, and pay attention to "rest" to avoid sweating after exercise and "sweating" hurting the yang. In terms of diet conditioning, it is advisable to take the principle of "increasing acidity and reducing bitterness, tonifying kidney and helping liver, regulating stomach and regulating qi", and the diet should be light and eat more vegetables, fruits and coarse grains. You can do a few small moves before getting up, which is conducive to strengthening your physique, keeping in good health in traditional Chinese medicine and prolonging your life. Long Summer Diet On this day, you must eat boiled eggs, whole bamboo shoots, peas with shells and other special dishes. According to folklore, eating eggs in the long summer is to nourish the heart, because the shape of eggs is like a heart. Eating eggs can make the spirit of the heart not suffer losses; Eating bamboo shoots on the legs can make people's legs as strong as bamboo shoots and can travel long distances; Eating peas kills the eyes. Peas with shells are shaped like eyes, and people pray to eat pea balls to get rid of eye diseases-eyes are as clear as fresh peas.

In ancient times, people attached great importance to the long summer solar terms. According to the report, every day in the long summer, the Emperor will lead officials to hold a ceremony in the southern suburbs of Beijing to welcome the arrival of summer. As the fire broke out on the fifth day of summer, the corresponding color was red. Therefore, on this long summer day, the monarch and his subjects all wear red ceremonial costumes and red jade ornaments, and even horses and car flags are scarlet to express their desire for a bumper harvest and good wishes.

There is another saying that don't sit on the threshold in summer. In Anhui, it was recorded in the "Taihu County Records" in the tenth year of Daoguang: "It is said that in summer, bamboo shoots and amaranth are used as soup, and it is forbidden to sleep at the threshold during the day, which is also called worrying about summer fatigue." It is said that sitting on the threshold on this day will make you tired and sick in summer.