Although the traditional eating customs of long summer in different parts of the country have their own characteristics, the most classic food of long summer is "long summer eggs".

On the day before the long summer, many people began to cook "long summer eggs" at home, usually with tea powder or walnut shells, and watched the eggshells turn red slowly, and the house was full of fragrance. Eat the tea eggs while they are hot. When eating, pour good wine and sprinkle some fine salt. The wine is fragrant.

During the long summer festival, farmers in suburban counties of Shanghai make strips of wheat flour and sugar, which are called "wheat silkworms". When people eat them, they can avoid "summer". In the long summer, tender grass heads and rice noodles are fried into cakes, which are called "stalls" and are deeply loved by Shanghai and Pudong people.

Sugar plum, fermented grains, salted eggs, etc. It is also a seasonal food, calling it fresh and tasting it "three new".

Zhenjiang has the saying that "eight new things are tasted in the long summer". This "eight new" is cherry, new bamboo shoots, new tea, new wheat, tender broad beans, radish, shad and grouper (yellow croaker). Among them, shad is the most precious.

The first tidal shad was a tribute to the imperial court, and the second tidal shad was taken away by the rich to satisfy their greed. Ordinary people eat shad early, which is the shad after the third wave.

Chang Xia, a native of Changshu, has a new taste and rich food. There is a saying of "nine meats and thirteen vegetarian dishes". "Nine meats" refer to shad, bonito, salted fish, salted eggs, sea cucumbers, elk ducks, salted shrimps, cherry meat and pomfret.

"Thirteen elements" refer to cherries, plums, and wheat silkworms (new wheat is kneaded into thin strips and cooked), such as bamboo shoots, broad beans, hairy needles, peas, cucumbers, chicory bamboo shoots, grass heads, radishes, roses, pine flowers, etc.