What does the heat mean?

Summer is the eleventh of the twenty-four solar terms, at the end of the afternoon and the beginning of the month.

When the sun reaches 15 degrees, the festival is held on July 6-8 of the Gregorian calendar every year.

Summer means hot, a little hot, not very hot. Although it is not the hottest season in a year, it is followed by the hottest solar term in a year. There is a folk saying called "Little Summer and Big Summer, steamed and eaten".

Many places in China have entered the season with the most thunderstorms since summer.