How did the summer solar terms come from?

Speaking of the solar term "Great Summer", what do you think of first? I believe many people will think of the heat in summer. Hot means that summer is here and the temperature is already high. It may be the hottest time in the hot summer. What are the origins and customs of summer solar terms? Let's get to know each other!

The origin and custom of solar terms in midsummer

When the sun reaches longitude 120, it is a solar term of "great summer heat". "Great Summer", like "Little Summer", is a festival reflecting the degree of midsummer, and "Great Summer" means extremely hot. Twenty-four solar terms: "mid-June? Summer, summer, size, small at the beginning of the month, big in the month, and still hot today. " This is the origin of the summer solar terms.

The customs of relieving summer heat include sending boats to relieve summer heat, burning incense to relieve summer heat, drinking tea and drying ginger, eating cold noodles with bamboo tube, beating cricket, eating fairy grass, eating pineapple and drinking summer sheep. The activity of sending a "summer boat" in summer has a history of hundreds of years in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province. The "Summer Boat" was completely built according to the scale of the old three-masted sailboat, which contained various sacrifices.

On the Great Summer Festival, Putian people have the custom of eating litchi, mutton and rice grains, which is called "over the Great Summer". In summer, relatives and friends often give litchi and mutton as gifts.

Since ancient times, people have the custom of drinking tea in the dog days of summer. Tea in dog days, as the name implies, is tea in dog days. This kind of tea, which is made of more than ten kinds of Chinese herbal medicines such as honeysuckle, selfheal and licorice, has the function of cooling and relieving summer heat.