Is it hot today?

The summer heat in 2023 is July 23rd. At 9: 50 on July 23, 15 seconds ushered in the summer solar term, which is one of the 24 solar terms and the last solar term in summer. On the fifteenth day after the slight summer heat, it means that it is not a great summer heat; The solar calendar is120; Gregorian calendar July 22 ~ 24. Summer heat means heat, and great summer heat means extreme heat.

Summer heat is relatively mild and hot, which is the clearest and hottest solar term in a year, and the hot and humid heat reaches its peak at this time. Climatic characteristics of summer: high temperature and scorching heat, frequent thunderstorms and typhoons. Summer has come, more than half a year. It is in the middle of June of the lunar calendar, so the summer heat is also called the "half-year festival". The ancients divided 15 days in midsummer into three periods: first, rotten grass was firefly; Second, wait for the soil to moisten and cool off the heat; Just when it rains heavily.

Summer folk activities:

1, lunar cruise in summer

In the hot summer, the ancients never stayed at home alone to be "otaku" and "otaku". Instead, they took this summer heat as a holiday. "Summer Moon Tour" was one of the folk customs at that time. In the old society, every June, scholars and women gathered together.

2. Drink sheep in summer

"Drinking sheep in summer" means drinking mutton soup in summer, which is a popular summer custom in Yimeng Mountain area and southwest Shandong in the old revolutionary base area of central and southern Shandong. Among them, Shandong Shanxian mutton soup is the most famous.

Step 3 eat noodles

When summer comes, Linyi has the traditional custom of "drinking summer sheep" (that is, drinking mutton soup) or eating noodles in summer. On this day, every married daughter and married son will go back to their parents' home, kill a sheep and cook a pot of cold noodles. The whole family will happily drink mutton soup and eat noodles and have a hot summer.

Step 4 drink tea

Fu Cha, as its name implies, is the tea people drink in dog days. Free tea is usually served from the beginning of June to the end of August in the lunar calendar. In ancient times, there was a custom in many rural areas, that is, villagers would put some tea in the pavilion at the entrance of the village and give it to passers-by for free.

5, stir-fried grass tofu

With the arrival of the summer solar term, people in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province have the custom of frying grass and tofu. Grass bean curd refers to the shape of bean curd made by frying Cao Xian, Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch, Prunella vulgaris with Chinese herbal medicines such as chrysanthemum and honeysuckle, and eating it after cooling.