What time is changxia tomorrow?

The long summer in 2022 is at 20: 25: 46 on May 5, 2022, on the fifth day of the fourth lunar month.

This is the seventh of the 24 solar terms and the first solar term in summer. Beginning of spring, beginning of autumn and beginning of winter, also known as the "Four Stands", represent the transformation and transition of the four seasons.

The long summer in 24 solar terms is also the beginning of Mitsuki. "The bucket refers to the southeast, and the dimension is long in summer. Everything grows here, hence the name Long Summer. " "Summer" in long summer means "big", and "long summer" means that plants sown in spring have grown upright at this time. Spring, long summer, autumn harvest and winter storage, summer is the best season for many crops to grow vigorously.

Interesting folk customs in the long summer

1, welcome summer

In ancient times, people attached great importance to the long summer. On the long summer day, the ancient emperor would lead officials to the southern suburbs of Beijing to welcome the summer and hold a ceremony to welcome the summer. The monarch and his subjects all wear scarlet ceremonial costumes and jade ornaments, and even horses and car flags should be scarlet to express their prayers and good wishes for a bumper harvest. In the imperial court, "open the ice in summer and give it to the civil and military ministers." Ice was stored last winter and given to officials by the emperor.

Step 2 weigh people

There is a custom of weighing people after lunch in the long summer. The ancient poem goes: "Long summer is called a person, hanging beam laughs." People hang a big wooden scale and a stool on the hook, and everyone takes turns sitting on the stool to weigh people.

3, the game of playing eggs

At noon that day, every household cooked the eggs (the eggs were cooked in shells and could not be damaged), soaked them in cold water for a few minutes, then put on woven net bags and hung them around the children's necks. Children will play egg-beating games in groups of three or five.