7.7 What is the date?

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 longitude 105 degrees, and the festival is held on July 6-8 of the Gregorian calendar every year. Summer, which means hot, is a slight summer heat, not very hot.

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 sunshine is fierce, the temperature is high, the humidity is high and there is a lot of rain in this season, for crops, the same period of rain and heat is conducive to growth.

In the past, there was a folk custom of "eating new things" in southern China, that is, after the hot summer, farmers tasted new rice, ground the newly cut rice into rice, prepared to worship the food of the five grain gods and ancestors, and then everyone tasted new wine.

In the north, there is a tradition of eating jiaozi first. Fukui people have poor appetite and tend to weigh less than usual, which is called bitter summer. In traditional customs, jiaozi is the food to satisfy their appetite, and jiaozi looks like an ingot, which means "Yuanbao Fu". Eating jiaozi symbolizes full blessing.