What does the long summer solar term mean? Twenty-four solar terms and long summer explained it in detail.

Introduction: It is a new beginning of the year, and our solar terms also have a new alternating cycle. A solar term has appeared one after another, becoming our four seasons today. Long summer is the first solar term in summer, so do you know what the solar term in long summer means? The following is a detailed explanation of the 24 solar terms and the long summer I brought. Interested friends should have a look.

What does the long summer solar term mean?

Stand still, build the beginning; Summer, false, everything has grown up so far, hence the name Long Summer.

Astronomically, Chang Xia said that bidding farewell to spring is the beginning of 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.

In astronomy, the summer solstice is the turning point of the sun. After this day, it went back, the point of direct sunlight began to move south, and the day in the northern hemisphere became shorter day by day. At the same time, after the arrival of the summer solstice, the stars in the night sky gradually became summer stars.

Detailed explanation of the 24 solar terms in long summer.

Long summer is the first solar term in summer among the 24 solar terms, which marks the official start of the season in Xia Meng. The solar term of long summer is when the sun reaches 45 degrees of the yellow meridian. The bucket refers to the southeast, and the dimension is long in summer. Everything has grown to this day, hence the name Long Summer. The solar term "Long Summer" was established at the end of the Warring States Period (239 BC).

Twenty-four solar terms: Long Summer and April Festival. Make a word to understand spring. Summer, holidays. At this time, everything is fake and big. "

Astronomically, Chang Xia said that bidding farewell to spring is the beginning of 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.

In fact, according to climatological standards, if the average daily temperature rises steadily above 22℃ for five consecutive days, summer will begin. Before and after the long summer, only the area south of Fuzhou-Nanling line in China is the real summer when the trees grow dark and the balcony reflects into the pond.

However, some parts of Northeast China and Northwest China have just entered spring, and the average temperature in most parts of the country is around 18 ~ 20℃, which is the mid-spring and late-spring season of "all kinds of red and purple compete for Fang Fei". In the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, the waiting temperature in the long summer season is close to the climatological standard, which is the origin of the twenty-four solar terms.

From this point of view, it is practical to regard the Long Summer Festival as long summer in the 24 solar terms. In May, Sophora japonica blooms in many places. In the long summer, everything is thriving.

Long summer is divided into three stages.

"At first, crickets sang." Cricket No.1, also called toad, is a kind of frog. At this time, frogs began to sing in the fields and ponds for food.

"Wait for the earthworm to come out", because the underground temperature continues to rise, the earthworm climbs from the underground to the ground to breathe fresh air.

"Third-class king melon", also known as sweet potato, has begun to grow and mature. Qing Qianlong's "Xinzheng County Records" contains: "April melons are picked and sold, and they are said to be fresh when given to each other."

"Yi Zhou Shu Shi Xun Jie" says: "On a long summer day, it sounds like a song. On the fifth day, the earthworm came out. Another five days, Wang Guasheng. " That is to say, in this solar term, you can first hear the chirping of grubs (that is, slugs) in the field, then you can see earthworms digging in the soil, and then the vines of melon begin to climb and grow rapidly, which describes the phenological scene in early summer.

The book "Eight Chapters of Lotus Life" written by the Ming Dynasty said: "On the day of long summer, heaven and earth will meet, and everything is beautiful." At this time, the summer harvest crops entered the late growth stage, the winter wheat blossomed and filled, the rape was close to maturity, and the summer harvest crops were basically a foregone conclusion that year. Therefore, there is a saying in agricultural proverbs that "see summer in the long summer".

Rice planting and management of other spring-sown crops have also entered a busy season. Therefore, China has always attached great importance to the long summer solar terms. According to records, during the Zhou Dynasty, on the day of long summer, the emperor personally led hundreds of civil and military officials to the suburbs to "welcome summer" and instructed Si Tuleideng and other officials to encourage farmers to work hard.

Long summer is still a traditional festival for four years old. On the long summer day of the Zhou Dynasty, Emperor Tiandi led three officials, nine ministers and other doctors to welcome the summer in the suburbs south of the city, and held a ceremony to worship the former emperor Zhu Rong.

The Han dynasty also followed this custom. The Book of Sacrifice in the Later Han Dynasty reads: "On the day of long summer, we welcome summer, and all the southern suburbs worship Chi Di, and the car flags and costumes are all red." The song "Zhu Ming" and the dance "Dancing with Wings". In the Song Dynasty, etiquette became more complicated. It was not until the Ming Dynasty that "taste the new customs" came into being. In the Qing Dynasty, "Ji Sheng at the age of Emperor Jingdi" said: "In the long summer, spring buds of rice noodles that are usually exposed to the sun are fried with sugar noodles into various fruit stacks and fed to each other."

In Jiangsu and Zhejiang, there is also the custom of eating flowers and rice in the long summer, and some people call it "food supplement". There is also the folk custom that "eggs are eaten in the long summer and stones are crushed". It is said that eating eggs and duck eggs in long summer can enhance physical fitness and resist summer heat. Some people eat bamboo shoots in the long summer and some people drink them in the long summer, which is called "seeing three novelty in the long summer". In the southern region, in the old society, every family steamed new tea and gave it to relatives and neighbors with various fruits.

The ancients believed that the three months of long summer (Xia Meng, midsummer and the last month of summer) were busy farming seasons, so this season was also called "Three Summers". At this time, the vegetation is lush and vigorous, and it is sickly in midsummer, often with fatigue and weakness, eating less and slightly hot, and sometimes the summer heat hurts. This situation is often caused by high labor intensity, high temperature and insufficient rest. Therefore, we should pay attention to adjusting diet, reasonably arranging one room for agricultural production, supplementing water in time, ensuring sleep, adapting to the requirements of "long-term care" in summer and protecting physical and mental health.