When is the solstice in the summer of 2023?

The summer solstice in 2023 is June 2 1.

The summer solstice in 2023 is 22: 57: 37, Wednesday, the fourth day of the fifth lunar month. Summer solstice is one of the 24 solar terms. Every year on June 2 1 or 22 of Gregorian calendar, the sun moves to 90 degrees of the yellow meridian, which is the summer solstice. At this time, the position of the sun directly on the ground reaches the northernmost point of the year, almost directly on the Tropic of Cancer, and the sunshine time in the northern hemisphere is the longest.

Summer solstice solar terms are characterized by heavy rain, rainy weather, high temperature and high humidity. After the summer solstice, the ground is heated strongly and the air convection is strong, and thunderstorms are often easy to form in the afternoon to evening. This kind of hot thunderstorm comes and goes, and the rainfall range is small. People call it "dividing fields in summer and rain". Liu Yuxi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, skillfully used this weather to write a famous poem, "The east rises and the west falls, and the road is sunny and sunny." The heavy precipitation brought by convective weather is not always as beautiful as described in the poem, and it often brings local disasters.

Summer solstice food

1, hot surface. Eating hot noodles in hot summer is called "picking a pot", which is said to mean "evil". Eating hot noodles is to ward off evil spirits.

2. Summer solstice soup. People in Changsha, Hunan, eat dumplings made of glutinous rice flour and mouse grass on the summer solstice, which is called "summer solstice soup". There is a folk saying, "Eat summer solstice soup, granite steps into a pit" and "eat a ball and cross the river with one foot in summer solstice", which means that you are extremely powerful and as light as a swallow.

3. Summer solstice cake. After the summer harvest, new wheat comes on the market, so it is a custom to eat noodles and try new wheat every day. Some people mix them with wheat flour and spread them into pancakes for baking cooked food. With vegetables, pods, tofu and bacon, it is usually called "summer solstice cake" after ancestor worship.

4. litchi. Cantonese people in Guangzhou, Qinzhou and Yulin in Guangxi like to eat dog meat and lychee on the solstice in summer. It is also good to drink some salt water or mung bean water, melon water and rehmannia soup before and after eating litchi.