Summer heat of solar term activities

Summer is the eleventh of the twenty-four solar terms, at the end of the afternoon and the beginning of the month. The sun reaches 105 degrees. Summer means hot, a little hot, not very hot. It's getting hotter, but it's not the hottest. Although light summer is not the hottest season in a year, it is followed by the hottest solar term in a year. There is a folk saying that "it is hot in summer and hot in summer, and it is steamed and cooked". Many places in China have entered the season with the most thunderstorms since summer.

The heat began to enter the dog days. The so-called "hot dog days". The dog days generally appear between the hot summer and the hot summer, and it is the time with the highest temperature and humid heat in a year. Monsoon climate is the main feature of China climate. In summer, affected by the warm and humid air flow from the ocean, many places in China are hot, humid and rainy. Although the sun is scorching, it is hot, humid and rainy at this time. For crops, the same period of rain and heat is conducive to growth.

The ancients in China divided the summer heat into three periods: "One is warm and windy; Second, wait for crickets to live in space; The third waiting eagle began to crow. " In summer, there is no cool wind on the earth, and all the winds carry heat waves; The Book of Songs? In July, the words to describe crickets are "July is in the wild, August is in the house, September is in the house, and October crickets enter my bed." August mentioned in this paper is June in the summer calendar, which is a short time in summer. Because of the heat, crickets leave the field and go to the corner of the yard to escape the heat. In this solar term, the eagle is in the cool high air movement, because the ground temperature is too high.

Activities:

1. Before and after light summer, except for harvesting winter and spring wheat in the northeast and northwest, agricultural production was mainly busy with field management.

2. There are some folk customs such as "eating fresh food", "eating jiaozi" and "eating fried noodles".

On the sixth day of the sixth lunar month, people have the custom of drying pictures, calligraphy and clothes. It is said that this day after drying in the sun, you can avoid being eaten by insects, so there is a saying that "on June 6th, the sun turned red and green".

The watermelon is ripe and the lotus is in bloom. Carry out activities such as eating watermelon and lotus festival.

5, cotton pruning (topdressing+harrowing).