The Origin and Legend of Long Summer

Long summer is the seventh solar term in the twenty-four solar terms of the lunar calendar and the first solar term in summer, which indicates the official start of the summer season. When the sun reaches 45 degrees of the yellow meridian, it is the solar term of long summer. The bucket refers to the southeast, and the dimension is long in summer. Everything has grown to this day, hence the name Long Summer. Twenty-four solar terms: Long Summer and April Festival. Make a word to understand spring. Summer, holidays. At this time, everything is fake and big. "Astronomically, Chang Xia said that saying goodbye to spring is the beginning of summer. When the temperature rises obviously, the summer heat comes, thunderstorms increase and crops enter the peak season, people are used to taking long summer as an important solar term. What is the origin of long summer? Every year around the first day of April (between May 5 and 6 of Gregorian calendar), when the sun reaches 45 degrees of the Yellow Meridian, it is the long summer solar term of the lunar calendar. Changxia was established at the end of the Warring States Period (239 BC). " The bucket refers to the southeast, and the dimension refers to the long summer, where everything grows, hence the name long summer. "Chang Xia said that it was the beginning of summer saying goodbye to spring. When the temperature rises obviously, the summer heat comes, thunderstorms increase and crops enter the peak season, people are used to taking long summer as an important solar term. What are the legends and stories in Changxia? On the day of long summer, there are many folk customs in our country, one of which is "addressing people". The so-called "weighing people" means that adults take a big scale and hang a big basket on the hook, and children sit in the basket and weigh themselves. Later, people called this custom "weighing people". There are many legends about the origin of "Weighing Man". One of them is that when Zhu Yuanzhang rose up at the end of Yuan Dynasty, his general Chang Yuchun was unfortunately captured alive by the Yuan Army in a battle. Zhu Yuanzhang was worried when he heard the news, and he learned that Chang Yuchun had been put in prison after asking for information. In order to save Chang Yuchun's life, Zhu Yuanzhang sent someone to buy off the generals of the Yuan Army, bribing the prison head and the forbidden child through friends, so that they could treat Chang Yuchun well and not let him suffer. As the saying goes, "Money makes the mare go" and "You are soft-spoken and soft-hearted", the generals and jailers of the Yuan army have long seen the fatigue of the Yuan Dynasty and worried that there is no way to please Zhu Yuanzhang. How dare they suffer for Chang Yuchun? But how did Zhu Can know that Chang Yuchun was treated well in prison? It's not right. Zhu Yuanzhang will win the world in the future, but he will destroy Jiuzu! The wife of the jailer's son asked her husband why he was so sad for days on end. After listening to her husband's story about Chang Yuchun, the wife smiled and said, "It's not easy. You weigh Chang Yuchun first, and then feed him with good wine and meat. As long as he is not thin, it means that he didn't suffer in prison. "The next day, Gao Toujin was called Chang Yuchun as his wife said, and that day happened to be long summer. From then on, the old man Jin waited for Chang Yuchun with good wine and vegetable fields every day, for fear that he would suffer a little. A year later, Zhu Yuanzhang led an army to conquer the city and rescued Chang Yuchun from prison. In order to show his achievements, the old man Jin called Chang Yuchun in front of Zhu Yuanzhang. Chang Yuchun is not thin, but ten kilograms heavier than last year. Coincidentally, this day is also long summer. Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed and said with a smile: "Good, good, long summer and long summer are called people, and they are all called people. "Since then, the custom of calling people in the long summer has spread among the people. The second legend about "calling people" in the Long Summer is related to Liu Chan, the last ruler of Shu in the Three Kingdoms period. At the end of the Three Kingdoms, Shu, which was managed by the late ruler Liu Chan, was already very weak. This year, the general of Wei, Deng Ai, was ordered to lead an army to attack Shu, and the soldiers were forced to surrender. Zheng Zheng, a loyal minister in Shu, proposed to Wargo that "Liu Chan is the king of a country. After surrendering to Dewey, he can't be abused or lose a little meat, otherwise he would rather die than surrender". Wargo agreed to this condition. After Liu Chan surrendered, he was taken to Luoyang, the capital of Wei at that time. Duke Wei named him an Anle Gong and gave him a house, ten thousand silks and satins and a hundred beautiful women. From then on, Liu ate, drank, and was not ashamed to forget his country. In the second year, Liu Chan was called to weigh a * * *. The king who forgot his country not only didn't lose weight, but gained more than 20 kilograms. This day also happens to be the beginning of summer. There is a poem in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms that says, "Laugh and play, and you will be safe. "If you are at large in a foreign land and forget your old country, you will know that your late master was a mediocrity."