The folk custom of eating dumplings during Xiaoshu solar term

　　You can grow radish and vegetables in the first three days, and you can also grow buckwheat in the third day.； Toufu dumplings, Erfu noodles, Sanfu pancake stall egg。

　　It is a traditional custom to eat dumplings on Fu Day. People lose their appetite on Fu Day and tend to be thinner than usual. This is commonly known as the bitter summer. In traditional customs, dumplings are an appetizer to relieve cravings. In some places in Shandong, raw cucumbers and boiled eggs are eaten to cure the bitter summer. In the morning of Fu Day, eggs are eaten and no other food is eaten.

　　People in Xuzhou eat mutton in Fu, which is called eating Fu Yang. This custom can be traced back to the Yao and Shun periods. There is a folk saying that a bowl of Fu Yang soup in Pengcheng does not require a prescription from a miracle doctor. Xuzhou people’s favorite thing about eating Fuyang is the local folk song: picking up girls on June 6th, and new wheat cakes and mutton soup. The custom of eating noodles on Furi dates back to at least the Three Kingdoms period. Wei's Spring and Autumn Period: Soup cakes during the volt solar eclipse, wipe the sweat with a towel, and your face will look bright. The soup cakes here are hot soup noodles. Jingchu's account of his age: Soup cakes with a solar eclipse in June are called to ward off evil spirits. The fifth month is an evil month, and even if it is in the sixth month, it should also ward off evil spirits.

　　You can also eat fried noodles on the water surface during the dog days. The so-called fried noodles are made by dry-frying the flour in a pot, and then mixing it with water and sugar. This way of eating was more common in the Tang and Song Dynasties in the Han Dynasty, but at that time, the wheat grains were fried first, and then the noodles were ground. Su Gong, a medical scientist in the Tang Dynasty, said that fried noodles can relieve heat and stop diarrhea.

　　In addition, in Linyi area of ​​Shandong Province, there is a custom of improving the diet of cattle. Cook wheat kernel soup for cows to drink during the dog days. It is said that cows will be strong and able to work without sweating after drinking it. Folk songs: Spring bull whip, licking oxen (ox), wheat kernel soup, licking beef rice, licking cows will stop sweating, and it will be repeated until June.

　　The Little Summer Season is the second stage of rice seedlings in Taiwan. The first stage of rice is yellow and ripe. It is also the peak production period of loofah, bitter melon, cucumber, and winter melon. The sea area around Taiwan is warm water, and it is also the period when warm water fish swarm. There are small curl reds off the coast of northern Keelung.