What day is the summer heat in the 24 solar terms in 2022?

7 July 10: 37: 49

Thursday, the ninth day of the sixth lunar month. Slight summer heat means slight heat, which means that the hot weather in summer is coming, but it is only a little hot, not the hottest time.

The custom of hot summer

1, eat lotus root

People have always had the custom of eating lotus roots in summer. Lotus root has the functions of clearing away heat, nourishing blood and removing annoyance. Suitable for eating fresh lotus root in summer, simmering with low fire, adding appropriate amount of honey after slicing, which can be eaten at will, has the effect of calming the nerves and helping sleep, and can cure insomnia due to blood deficiency.

2. Painting and clothes

In summer, people also have the custom of drying pictures, calligraphy and clothes. There is a saying in the folk proverb: "On June 6th, people dry their clothes" and "On June 6th, people dry red and green". "Red and green" refers to all kinds of brightly colored clothes. This is the day with the highest temperature, the longest sunshine time and the strongest sunshine radiation in a year, so every household will choose this day to "bask in the sun" and hang the clothes stored in the cupboard outside to bask in order to remove moisture, moisture, mildew and moths.

3. Eat eel in summer.

As the saying goes: Monopterus albus participates in summer. Monopterus albus was born in a mud hole on the seashore, and the summer eel is the most nourishing and delicious one month before and after the summer heat. Summer is often the remission period of chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma, rheumatoid arthritis and other diseases, while Monopterus albus is warm and sweet, and has the functions of invigorating the middle warmer, benefiting qi, nourishing the liver and spleen, expelling wind and dampness, and strengthening bones and muscles.

4, summer heat "eat new"

The arrival of the light summer heat means that the hot weather in summer is about to begin. In order to cope with the coming hot climate and express gratitude for the first round of grain harvest, China society has gradually formed customs such as "eating new things" and "offering sacrifices to the god of five grains" for thousands of years.