In Huzhou, children will go to grandma's house for lunch in summer. Almost every grandmother's family will prepare fish, meat and salted duck eggs for grandchildren. Rice is made from new broad beans and peas and is called long summer rice. Salted duck eggs are locally called grey duck eggs. Cured with grass and firewood ash before Qingming Festival. After steaming, protein is fresh and tender, the eggs are butter-like, and the flavor is unique.

Chang Xia said that bidding farewell to spring is the beginning of summer.

Long Xia San Hou refers to the following three:

1, giggle: a long summer "giggle". According to Zheng Xuan in the Eastern Han Dynasty, "salamander" is a frog, not a mole. Changxia is said to be a brown-black frog.

2. Earthworms were born: Five days after the long summer, "Earthworms were born". Earthworms' songs are also very famous. They are sung in the ground, feeling yin and bending, and seeing them in the sun.

3. Wang Guasheng: Five days later, "Wang Guasheng". This kind of melon is also called "sweet potato". "Melons are like hail, ripe and red, and crows like them, so they are called' old crow melons'. This is not a cucumber.

We should "see three new things" in summer. Which "three new"? Cherry, green plum and new wheat. Cherry is sweet, plum is sour, and new wheat is fragrant. At this time, the wheat is not ripe, so how can it be new? Take the green ears of wheat and cook them, remove the awns and grind them into strips, which is called "kneading", which is the beginning of the new taste of annual grains. There is also green wheat stir-fried with sugar, which is called "cold fried noodles". There are also broad beans, which taste very new. The so-called "cherry crisp ripe, new wheat sweet, broad bean fresh".

Long summer health: Long summer has been the long summer of China since ancient times. At this time, the temperature rose obviously, the summer heat came, and thunderstorms increased. According to the standard of climatology, the daily average temperature rises to above 22℃ steadily, starting from summer. Before and after the "long summer", only the area south of Fuzhou-Nanling line in China really entered the summer. The summer temperature is high, and the human body loses a lot of water, so it must be replenished in time. Besides drinking more water, it is also a good choice to eat more vegetables rich in water. Among the vegetables rich in water, the most recommended ones are melon vegetables, such as wax gourd, cucumber, bergamot, loofah and pumpkin.

After a long summer, people get excited easily. Therefore, in the long summer, we should "abstain from dryness and anger", avoid exultation and sorrow, and keep quiet, relaxed and smiling. In addition, in diet regulation, we should eat less high-fat, thick-flavored and spicy things and eat more light and vitamin-rich foods, such as yam, wheat, corn, seafood and eggs.

Summer is the season with frequent skin diseases, and many annoying skin diseases such as prickly heat, allergic dermatitis, sweat spots and eczema threaten the health of many people. To deal with skin diseases, you should take a bath frequently, change clothes frequently, and wash and disinfect quilts and towels frequently; Try to go where there are many mosquitoes. Summer is also a high incidence period of gastrointestinal diseases such as bacillary dysentery, acute gastroenteritis and food poisoning. Pay attention to food hygiene, drink more boiled water and eat less cold drinks.