When is the great summer heat in 2020?

July 22, 2020 16: 37 The summer solar term is coming, the heat wave is rolling, everything is cooking, and the hottest time of the year is here. "Summer heat" is heat, and summer heat is extremely hot. The summer heat is relatively mild and hot, and "damp heat steaming" reaches its peak at this time. The summer climate is characterized by high temperature and extreme heat, with frequent thunderstorms and typhoons.

The origin of the heat:

It is said that the hot summer is just before and after the "midsection" of the "dog days", and the sun is located at 120 degrees, which is the twelfth of the 24 solar terms.

There are three periods of great summer heat. One is that rotten grass is a firefly. On the day of great summer heat, "rotten grass is a firefly". The ancients thought that fireflies were made of rotten grass. Fireflies, also known as "candlelight night" and "bright night", are poetic insects that welcome autumn in summer. When fireflies mysteriously curl up in the silent night, the cool autumn is not far away.

Second, wait for the soil to moisten the summer heat: after five days, the soil moistens the summer heat, the rain is wet and the steam is unbearable.

Third, wait for the heavy rain: On the fifth day "when it rains", it will cause heavy rain due to the accumulation of moisture. When it rains, it will be hot in summer, and when it is hottest, it will bring heavy rain in autumn.

The summer solar term is the hottest time of the year, just before and after the "midsection" of the "dog days". Since ancient times, people have had the custom of drinking herbal tea (tea) in the dog days of summer; Fucha, as its name implies, is a kind of tea to drink in dog days. This kind of tea boiled with Chinese herbal medicine has the function of cooling and dispelling summer heat. In addition, there are customs such as burning incense and drying ginger.

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Relevant customs:

1, have tea

Since ancient times, people have the custom of drinking tea in the dog days of summer. Tea in dog days, as the name implies, is tea in dog days. This kind of tea, which is made of more than ten kinds of Chinese herbal medicines such as honeysuckle, selfheal and licorice, has the function of cooling and relieving summer heat.

2. dried ginger

In dog days, people slice or juice ginger, mix it with brown sugar, put it in a container, cover it with gauze and dry it in the sun.

3. Bamboo tube cold noodles

I will set up a long bamboo tube in the community in summer, and put the cooked noodles in the bamboo tube to be cooled with water for everyone to taste. It is said that eating this kind of bamboo tube cold noodles in summer will not cause heatstroke.

Step 4 fight crickets

The summer heat is the season with the most crickets in rural fields. In some areas of China, people have the custom of playing cricket in their spare time.

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