Introduction to the origin and customs of the summer heat and its solar terms

1, the origin of light summer solar terms is that it is light summer when the sun reaches 105 on July 7 or 8 every year. "Twenty-four solar terms": "June Festival" ... It is also hot in summer, and it is small at the beginning of the month, big in the month, and still small today. "Summer heat. The ancients thought that the summer heat period was not the hottest time of the year, so it was called summer heat.

2. In the past, there was a folk custom of "eating new things in summer", that is, after the summer heat, farmers tasted new rice, ground the newly cut rice into rice, and prepared to worship the food of the five grain gods and ancestors, and then everyone tasted new wine. It is said that "eating new things" means "eating new things", which is the first new day after the summer festival. Cities generally buy a small amount of new rice for cooking in old rice, plus newly listed vegetables. Therefore, there is a folk saying that millet is eaten in summer and grain is eaten in summer.