What are the customs and pressures from summer solstice?

The traditional custom of summer solstice is to sacrifice to gods and ancestors, and summer solstice is the harvest season. Since ancient times, there has been a custom of celebrating harvest and offering sacrifices to ancestors at this time to pray for a good year. Cool food in summer, people generally drink sweet food such as herbal tea in summer. Eating noodles in the summer of solstice is an important custom in many areas.

Summer solstice is one of the 24 solar terms. On the day of summer solstice, the position of the sun directly on the ground reaches the northernmost point of the year, almost directly on the tropic of cancer.

After the summer solstice, the ground is heated strongly and the air convection is strong. Sudden thunderstorms often occur in the afternoon to evening. Because the rainfall range is not large, people call it "summer rain dividing fields"

On the solstice of summer, in addition to quenching thirst, we should try our best to be calm and pay attention to sleep. The weather is hot and the metabolism of human body is accelerated, so the intensity of exercise should be moderately reduced.