Introduction to the meaning of summer solstice solar terms

Introduction: After the ear planting, it can be said that all parts of the country have gradually entered the summer. At this time, the temperature difference between north and south is further narrowed, and we are about to usher in the hottest time of the year. From the point of view of solar terms, summer solstice will come one after another after sowing the ear. Just do you know the meaning of summer solar terms? Let's introduce the summer solstice solar terms in detail.

The summer solstice solar term means the longest day of the year. Summer solstice is one of the earliest solar terms among the 24 solar terms. Every year on June 2 1 or 22 of Gregorian calendar, when the sun reaches 90 degrees of the yellow meridian, it is the summer solstice. "Solstice" means "extreme", and the summer solstice is also called "long days". After the summer solstice, the direct point of the sun gradually moves southward, and the days in the northern hemisphere will be shorter and the nights will be longer.

The origin of summer solstice solar terms

Summer solstice was also called "Summer Festival" and "Summer solstice Festival" in ancient times. In the ancient summer solstice, people prayed for disaster and prosperity by offering sacrifices to God. "Zhou Li Chun Guan" contains: "With the arrival of summer, go to local things." Sacrificing to God in the summer solstice of the Zhou Dynasty means eliminating plague, famine and starvation. Historical Records records: "On the solstice of summer, people worship the land with music and dance." As an ancient festival, the summer solstice began in the Song Dynasty, and officials have a three-day holiday. In Liao Dynasty, the solstice in summer was called "Tide Festival", and women entered colorful fans and displayed their heritage with powder and fat capsules.

Characteristics of summer solstice

Although the summer solstice has the longest day and the highest sun angle, it is not the hottest time of the year. Because, close to the surface of the heat, at this time still continue to save, did not reach the maximum time. As the saying goes, "Hot days are in dog days", and the real hot weather is calculated by summer solstice and beginning of autumn. From mid-July to mid-August, the temperature is the highest in all parts of China, and the highest temperature in some areas can reach about 40 degrees.

"However, the summer solstice is not hot." "The summer solstice is already three years old." Although the summer solstice indicates that the hot summer has arrived, it is not the hottest time. After the summer solstice, the temperature will continue to rise for some time, and about twenty or thirty days is the hottest weather. After the summer solstice, the ground is heated strongly and the air convection is strong, and thunderstorms are often easy to form in the afternoon to evening. This kind of hot thunderstorm comes and goes, and the rainfall range is small. People call it summer rain over the mountains. In the south, Liu Yuxi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, skillfully used this weather and wrote a famous poem about the sunrise in the east and the rain in the west, saying that there is no sunny, only sunny.

What's the difference between solstice summer and 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.

Summer solstice is one of the 24 solar terms, which occurs on June 20th, or 2 1, or 22nd of the Gregorian calendar every year. On the day of summer solstice, the sun moves to 90 degrees of the yellow meridian (summer solstice, currently in Gemini), and the position where the sun directly hits the ground reaches the northernmost point of the year, almost directly to the Tropic of Cancer. At this time, the daylight hours in all parts of the northern hemisphere reach the longest in the whole year.

Folk custom of summer solstice solar terms

Summer solstice is the earliest festival in China. Before the Qing dynasty, there was a national festival on the solstice of summer. I went home to reunite with my relatives and have a drink. The Book of Rites also records the obvious phenomenon of solar terms in nature from summer to solar day: "From summer to solar day, antlers are untied, cicadas begin to sing, Pinellia ternata is born, and hibiscus is glorious." It shows that the antlers can be cut at this time, cicadas begin to sing, and Pinellia ternata and hibiscus gradually bloom. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, summer is the season with the highest yang. Health care should conform to the characteristics of abundant yang in summer, pay attention to protecting yang, and focus on a "long" word.

Since ancient times, there has been a folk proverb in China, "Eat noodles when you eat jiaozi from the winter solstice". Eating noodles from summer solstice is an important custom in many areas. There is a folk proverb that "Eating noodles from summer solstice shortens the day". There are many kinds of noodles in the south, such as Yangchun noodles, dried soup noodles, shredded pork noodles, three fresh noodles, sesame oil noodles and cold noodles, while noodles with gravy and noodles with dregs in the north. "Because new wheat has appeared from summer to day, eating noodles from summer to day also means tasting new things."

In summer solstice, besides pasta, some places in China eat bean jelly and bean jelly, some areas drink herbal tea, eat litchi and tea eggs, and some places have the habit of eating dog meat.