Eat traditional foods in the long summer: eggs, long summer tea, long summer soup, military vegetables, wheat silkworm, foot bone bamboo shoots, Qijia porridge, long summer rice and so on.

Healthy food in the long summer solar term: duck eggs, lettuce, poria cocos, wheat, bitter gourd, pig heart, lotus seeds, mung beans, millet, lotus roots and so on.

Every day before the long summer, children will ask the first family next door for a bowl of rice, which is called "taking Xia Xia rice". Dig some bamboo shoots, "steal" some broad beans and use some garlic seedlings. In summer, rice and ingredients are cooked in the open air, and plums and cherries are put on the rice. The day before yesterday, they are distributed to rice families, and each family has a small bowl. Folk believe that children can prevent heatstroke after eating.

Rice bran, also known as rice bran or rice paste fruit, is a special snack eaten in Shangrao, Jiangxi Province during the Long Summer Festival. Shangrao Changxia not only has the custom of eating bran, but also has interesting games to weigh people. It is said that Chang Xia said that people can be strong and support midsummer. In addition, Shangrao people often say that "you can only bet on power, not food". In the long summer, young and middle-aged people will ask their peers to do one-on-one pulling or squeezing activities after eating rice bran.