The origin and custom of the great summer heat

1, the origin of the summer heat: "Tongwei, filial piety helps the gods" once wrote: "The fifteenth day after the summer heat, not the summer heat, mid-June. The small ones and the big ones are extremely hot, and they are divided into sizes. It was small at first, and it became big after reading it. "

2. Summer solar terms custom: the custom of "sending a summer boat" along the coast of Zhejiang in summer; The custom of eating litchi, mutton and rice grains in Putian area is called excessive summer heat. People also burn incense, drink tea and dry ginger; In some rural areas, people have the custom of fighting crickets after meals. Guangdong will eat fairy grass in summer to cool off the heat; Taiwan Province Province has the custom of eating pineapple; Shandong will "drink summer sheep" in summer, which means drinking mutton soup.

3. Poems in hot summer.

(1) "Big Summer" is a red sun, and the breeze is nowhere to be found. Books talk about pillows, melons and fruits rise and fall. Lan ruojing is quiet and quiet, and the hair is deep. Inflammation and steaming are so much more precious.

(2) "Twenty-four Poems, Summer Qi in June" is near in summer and moved in September. When the laurel ring opens at midnight, fireflies glow hollowly. Guo invited Confucian scholars to meet with Pu Chang Mochi. The crimson yarn is muddy, and history is waiting for the wind to blow.

(3) Xijiang moon is in the sky, just as it is in the heat. It is very hot in summer in September, and the mountain behind Sanqiu is very cool. A grain and millet are gray. I hope to see the west side. No matter how far the ends of the earth are, he will do his best to keep the mountain barren away. Nothing is a fairyland at present. You have got rid of your fate.