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What is the solar term after the summer heat: beginning of autumn.

After the summer heat, beginning of autumn solar terms will be ushered in. Beginning of autumn is the 13 solar term among the 24 solar terms of the lunar calendar, and it is also the first solar term in autumn. That is, Gregorian calendar 2065438+August 25, 2006 means the official end of the summer solar term.

Brief introduction of summer solar terms

"Hot summer, June. Summer, summer, size, small at the beginning of the month, big in the month, and still hot today. " Its climatic characteristics are: "Dou refers to C as a great summer heat, and the weather in Sri Lanka is much stronger than a small summer heat, so it is called a great summer heat.

The next solar term after the heat is beginning of autumn.

Beginning of autumn is the 13 solar term among the 24 solar terms of the lunar calendar, and it is also the first solar term in autumn. The beginning of the autumn solar term is ushered in around August 7 of the Gregorian calendar every year. It marks the official start of autumn. "Autumn" means cool in summer. When we arrived in beginning of autumn, the phoenix tree began to shed its leaves, so there is an idiom "Autumn is known by falling leaves". Literally, the word "autumn" consists of "valley" and "fire", indicating the maturity of five grains. Autumn is the transitional season when the weather turns from hot to cold, and then from cold to cold. In ancient China, beginning of autumn was divided into three periods: "A cool breeze blows gently; Second, wait for the white deer to be born; Third-class chilling. "

Beginning of autumn has arrived, but not in autumn. The division of climatic seasons should be based on the "average climate temperature", that is, the local average temperature is below 22℃ for five consecutive days, which is the real autumn. China is a vast country. Although the climate varies from place to place, most areas have not yet entered the autumn climate, and the last days of dog days are still the third day after beginning of autumn. Especially in the south of China, this solar term is still a hot summer. At the same time, because the typhoon and rainy season are about to pass and the temperature is even hotter, TCM calls the period from beginning of autumn to the autumnal equinox "long summer".