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Is the summer solar term usually in autumn?

Summer is usually in autumn.

Long summer is the 14th solar term among the 24 solar terms, and autumn is the second solar term. Dou Zhiwu (Southwest); The solar meridian reaches150; It is celebrated on August 22~24 of the Gregorian calendar every year. 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.

Being in summer means that the hot and difficult weather is over and autumn is beginning. Although the weather is still hot during this period, it has shown a downward trend. The summer heat is a slow process. It doesn't mean that as soon as the summer heat drops, it will directly enter the cool autumn. Generally, coolness begins after a thousand years. After the summer solar term, the subtropical high strode southward, and in the southern region under its control, the hot weather was often felt again at the end of summer, which is the short-term regenerative weather "autumn tiger".

The proverbs of summer heat are listed as follows:

1, before summer comes out, it must be a disaster year.

This agricultural proverb means that if the summer solar term comes, but it hasn't come out yet, the grain harvest this year is not very good, and it may even lead to a serious crop failure.

It rains in summer, and it doesn't rain without water in summer.

Through long-term observation, the ancients found that the solar terms in summer are still a demarcation point of autumn rainfall. If it rains on the day of the summer solar term, it indicates that there will be more rain later, even 18 days.

It is very hot in dog days, and the tendons are frozen in winter.

This proverb means that if summer is still hot, as hot as dog days, then winter will be colder. In other words, it is hot in summer, so it will be cold in winter.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Chu Shu