What are the characteristics and customs of the summer solstice solar terms?

The characteristics of summer solstice solar terms: heavy rain, rainy weather, high temperature and high humidity. The custom of solar terms in summer solstice: offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, eating cold food to avoid summer, eating wheat and jiaozi, eating wonton, avoiding summer solstice, and so on. Summer solstice is one of the "four seasons and eight festivals" Since ancient times, people have celebrated the harvest and offered sacrifices to their ancestors in order to pray for a good year. In the ancient farming society, people chose a day to worship their ancestors while living and working in peace and contentment, so there were various fixed festivals, and gradually formed some established celebration methods, namely the so-called festival folk customs.

Brief introduction of summer solstice

Summer solstice is 10 of the 24 solar terms. After the summer solstice, the ground is heated strongly and the air convection is strong, which is easy to form thunderstorms. After the summer solstice, people generally eat Qingbuliang soup, herbal tea and sour plum soup to escape the heat.

During the summer solstice, the temperature is high, the sunshine is sufficient, the crops grow rapidly, and the physiological and ecological water demand is high in most parts of China. At this time, the precipitation has a great influence on agricultural output, and there is a saying that "raindrops are worth tens of millions in summer solstice". At this time, the precipitation in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River can generally meet the needs of crop growth.

Like the winter solstice, the summer solstice is an important folk festival in China, which was called "Summer Festival" and "Summer Solstice Festival" in ancient times. Before the Qing dynasty, there was a national holiday on the solstice of summer. I would go home to reunite with my relatives and drink a glass of wine to avoid the heat of summer. This is called summer break.