When is the long summer this year?

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 marks the official start of the season in Xia Meng. When the sun reaches 45 degrees of the yellow meridian, it is a long summer solar term. The bucket refers to the southeast, and the dimension is long in summer. Everything has grown to this day, hence the name Long Summer.

In ancient China, the long summer was divided into three periods: "First, waiting for the cricket's cry;" Second, wait for the earthworm to appear; Wait for Wang Guasheng. " That is to say, in this solar term, you can first hear kangaroos (that is, crickets) croaking in the field (that is, frogs), then you can see earthworms digging in the soil, and then the vines of the king melon begin to climb and grow rapidly.

The sixth day of the fifth lunar month is a long summer. At this time, "Dou refers to the southeast, Wei is the long summer, and everything has grown up since then, so it is named long summer." At this time, the longitude of the sun is 45 degrees. Astronomically, Chang Xia said that bidding farewell to spring is the beginning of a summer. When the temperature rises obviously, the summer heat comes, thunderstorms increase and crops enter the peak season, people are used to taking long summer as an important solar term.