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What do farmers do when summer is hot?

In this world, the most industrious people are farmers, because their hard work has brought more hope and more harvest to the whole country. So when each solar term comes, what significance does it have for farmers? In fact, the arrival of solar terms also means whether farmers can go to work or harvest.

What are the farmers doing in the hot summer?

There is a folk saying that it is a slight summer stroke and a great summer stroke. Everyone knows the meaning of this stroke. There may be some weeds in the crops at this time. At this time, not only the crops are growing, but also these weeds are growing. In the field, some weeds also compete for nutrition in the field cultivation, which will take away some water, so the weeds at this time are also very annoying, because the grass at this time is also in the growth stage. Then there was no herbicide before, so we had to pull weeds by hand. In some places, weeding is called weeding. At this time, you have to mow the grass. When summer comes, the grass will grow more vigorously, so we can cut the grass with a sickle. Therefore, in addition to farming in the heat and summer, farmers have to go to the fields to weed.

What are the customs of Xiao Shu?

1, Eating Summer Sheep: Eating Summer Sheep is the custom of summer solar terms in southern Shandong and northern Jiangsu. After summer, just after the third summer, and before the autumn harvest, farmers who have been busy for half a year will eat summer sheep in groups of three or five households and seven or eight households. At this time, the little goat who grew up drinking mountain spring water has been eating grass for several months, and it is tender and fragrant. This custom can be traced back to the Yao and Shun period. There is a saying among the local people that "Yang Yi Bowl of Soup does not need a doctor to open it." Xuzhou people love to eat summer sheep, which is nothing more than a local folk song: "Pick up the girl on June 6 and make new wheat cake mutton soup."

2. Fresh food: In summer, there are many folk places with the custom of "fresh food". Farmers will cook with new rice, worship the grain gods and ancestors, and pray for a bumper harvest after autumn. Then people happily taste new wine and so on. In some places, the newly harvested wheat is fried, then ground into flour and eaten with water and sugar. This kind of eating method existed as early as the Han Dynasty, and it was more common in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and some areas have continued to this day.

Characteristics of solar terms in light summer

During the summer solar term, most parts of southern China enter the season with the most thunderstorms. Thunderstorms are often accompanied by strong winds, heavy rains and sometimes hail, which is easy to cause disasters. Controlled by the subtropical high, the eastern part of South China began to enter the summer drought period, with sunny and hot weather. The southeast monsoon rainy season from the Pacific Ocean starts from the vast areas north of Huaihe River and Qinling Mountain in the east, and the precipitation increases obviously and is relatively concentrated. Meiyu in Jianghuai Basin is coming to an end. In long summer, the temperature rises and enters the summer drought period. After experiencing a slight heat, crops all over the country have entered a stage of vigorous growth, and people will pay more attention to the growth of crops.

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