How many days are there between Dragon Boat Festival and summer solstice?

Dragon Boat Festival is held on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. Summer solstice is one of the 24 solar terms, which occurs on June 2 1 or 22 of the Gregorian calendar every year. The interval between them is usually 10 to 20 days.

1, Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, May Festival and Five-Day Festival, is a traditional festival in China. Before the Spring and Autumn Period, Dragon Boat Festival was a festival to eliminate diseases and prevent epidemics. Later, because the patriotic poet Qu Yuan died on this day, it became a festival for the Han people in China to pay homage to Qu Yuan and remember the lofty feelings of the Chinese nation. Eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, drinking realgar wine, hanging wormwood and calamus, hanging purse and tying colored silk thread have become the common behaviors of China people during the Dragon Boat Festival. "Dragon Boat Festival" is one of the national legal holidays and is listed in the world intangible cultural heritage list.

However, there are exceptions. The Dragon Boat Festival in Wu Dong always commemorates Wu Zixu, who was thrown into the river on May 5th instead of Qu Yuan. And the custom of dragon boat race and tribal totem sacrifice in wuyue on this day is much earlier than in the Spring and Autumn Period.

2. Summer solstice

Summer solstice is one of the 24 solar terms, which occurs on June 2 1 or 22 of the Gregorian calendar every year. On the solstice in summer, the direct sunlight on the ground reaches the northernmost point of the year and almost directly reaches the Tropic of Cancer. At this time, the day in the northern hemisphere is the longest, and the farther north it is, the longer it is.

China folks divide 15 days from summer to the future into three "hours", usually the first three days, the middle five days and the last seven days. During this period, the temperature in most parts of China was high, the sunshine was sufficient, the crops grew rapidly, and the physiological and ecological water demand was high. At this time, the precipitation has a great influence on agricultural output, and there is a saying that "raindrops are worth tens of millions in summer solstice".