What do you say about summer heat?

Being in summer means that hot weather is coming to an end.

Summer is the fourteenth solar term among the twenty-four solar terms and the second solar term in autumn. Dou Zhiwu (Southwest); The solar meridian reaches150; August 22-24 of the Gregorian calendar every year. Summer has arrived, which is the "last summer" in the "three summers" of hot and hot weather, which means that the hot and difficult weather is coming to an end.

After the summer heat, the direct point of the sun continued to move southward, the solar radiation weakened, the subtropical high retreated southward, and the summer heat gradually disappeared. Thunderstorm activity is not as active as summer, and the general trend of rainstorm in all parts of the country is weakened. In summer, there are many folk activities, such as eating ducks, setting off river lanterns, opening fishing festivals, making herbal tea, worshiping the earth god and splashing water.

The custom of hot summer

1, ancestor worship to welcome autumn

The folk customs around the summer solar terms are mostly related to ancestor worship and welcoming autumn. Around the summer vacation, there will be folk activities to celebrate "July 30th", commonly known as "July 30th" or "Mid-Autumn Festival". July and a half is a folk festival to celebrate the harvest and repay the earth in early autumn. Some crops are ripe, so according to the law, people should worship their ancestors, offer new rice and other sacrifices, and report Qiu Cheng to their ancestors.

Step 2 eat ducks

"July and a half duck, August and a half duck", the ancients thought that ducks in the middle of July in the lunar calendar were the most fat and nutritious. In summer, old Beijingers will buy lily ducks to cool off the summer, but in Jiangsu, it's so-called "sending ducks to cool off the summer makes everyone sick" to serve a bowl of duck dishes to their neighbors.

3. River lamp

River lanterns usually have lights or candles on their bases. Before and after the summer vacation, there will be activities to celebrate the Central Plains, commonly known as "July 30" or "Central Plains Festival", in which river lanterns are put into the water to drift, to mourn the dead and pray for peace.

4. Fishing Festival

After the summer vacation, the harvest of fishing is a period. The coastal areas of China often hold various activities in this solar term, including the "fishing festival" to send fishermen out to sea and look forward to a bumper harvest. At this time, the water temperature in the sea area is still high, and the fish will still stay around the sea area, and the fish, shrimp and shellfish are mature. Therefore, from this time on, people can often enjoy all kinds of seafood.

5. Worship the land god

The summer solar term coincides with the harvest season of crops, and farmers hold various ceremonies to thank the land god. Some killed animals to worship in the land temple, some planted flags in the middle of the field to express their gratitude, and some didn't wash their feet when they came home from work in the field on this day, for fear of washing away the harvest.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Chu Shu