The Cultural Connotation of Summer Solstice

The cultural connotation of the summer solstice is:

1, summer solstice means hot summer is coming, and in summer solstice, the sun shines directly on the Tropic of Cancer, so summer solstice is the longest day in the northern hemisphere.

2. During the summer solstice, the rainstorm will continue and the temperature will continue to rise. Jianghuai area will enter the rainy season. In ancient China, the solstice of summer was still the day of ancestor worship, so it was necessary to worship the gods and ancestors and avoid summer.

The summer solstice is the tenth of the twenty-four solar terms. The "Twenty-four solar terms" were originally determined by the bucket handle direction of Beidou, which means noon, that is, the summer solstice. Summer solstice was also called "Summer Festival" and "Summer solstice Festival" in ancient times. The ancients said: "The days are long, the shadows are short and extremely extreme, so it is called the summer solstice." When the sun moves to the longitude of the Yellow River at 90 degrees, it is the intersection of the summer solstice, usually on June 2 1~22 of the Gregorian calendar.

The summer solstice is not only one of the 24 solar terms, but also a festival in the ancient folk "four seasons and eight festivals". Since ancient times, there has been a custom of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors to the Japanese. "Heaven and earth are the foundation of life: ancestors are the foundation of class.

"Heaven and earth are the foundation of life, ancestors are the foundation of life, and keeping ancestors is the custom of inheriting filial piety. In addition, there are folk customs such as "avoiding summer and hiding" and "clearing the field" from summer to Japanese.