The customs of most seasons

Customs in senior season: burning incense, eating "Xiancao", drinking tea and sticking stickers.

1, burning incense, summer solar term temperature is the highest, and crops grow fastest. Drought, waterlogging and wind disasters are also the most frequent in most areas, and the tasks of harvesting and seeds, drought and drainage, typhoon prevention and field management are very heavy.

Therefore, people burn incense and pray for good weather and good harvests. There is also a saying close to moxibustion in traditional Chinese medicine: baking specific acupoints with aromatherapy in dog days can treat many stubborn diseases.

2. Eating "Cao Xian", many places in Guangdong have the custom of "eating Cao Xian" in summer. As the saying goes, "Eat fairy grass in the summer of June, live like a fairy, and never get old". Fairy jelly and fairy grass are also common cold products in Xiamen.

3, drinking tea, tea, as the name implies, is the tea that you drink in the dog days. Free tea is usually served from the beginning of June to the end of August in the lunar calendar. This kind of tea, which is made of more than a dozen Chinese herbal medicines such as honeysuckle, selfheal and licorice, has the function of cooling and relieving summer heat. In ancient times, there was a custom in many rural areas, that is, villagers would put some tea in the pavilion at the entrance of the village and give it to passers-by for free.

4. Three-volt patch is a kind of plaster, such as the size of a bank card, which is generally used in four groups. Sticking the first date of the lunar calendar on some specific parts of the back in summer is believed to cure some diseases (such as rhinitis, tracheitis, pharyngitis and asthma). ) to prevent the arrival of winter. According to different diseases, four kinds of plaster are usually applied to different parts of the back for 8 hours.

Meteorological changes:

The summer solar term is just around the Mid-Autumn Festival in the dog days, which is the strongest and hottest solar term in a year, and the "hot and humid steaming" also reaches its peak at this time. The summer heat is the season with the most thunderstorms and abundant rainfall. High temperature and rainy period are basically the same, and rain and heat are the same.

Monsoon climate is the main feature of China climate. In summer, affected by warm and humid air currents from the ocean, many places in China are hot, humid and rainy. At this time, the sun is fierce, the temperature is high, the humidity is high, and there is much rain. Although it is inevitable to suffer from damp heat, it is very beneficial to the growth of crops, and crops grow fastest during this period.