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Poems by Xiao Shu and Lotus

Xiao Shu and Furong's poems are as follows:

"Little Summer" (Heshui Zuo) is boiling in the sky, hoping for rain and wind, with occasional thunderstorms and rainbows. Drought in the south and waterlogging in the north are different, but the color and taste of the lotus pond are the same.

"Dragon Boat Festival three restaurants should make fish characters". Zhang Tang said that this is a small summer and summer, and the emblem is the beginning of enterprise management. May the immortal spirit continue your kindness. Three halls are decorated with pearls and gold, and ministers move jade.

"Farewell to the King's Capital" Yi is a silver horse. Westbound Luoyang, will belong to Du Fu, and later recall the Lotus Tower.

The arrival of the summer solar term indicates that China in the northern hemisphere has entered the summer cooking mode, and it is in hot water, which is definitely not a double day of ice and fire, but a feeling of boiling water and scorching sun all day.

Yuan Zhen's poem Midsummer captures the characteristics of midsummer. Warm winds, intense heat, thunderstorms, eagles hitting the sky and crickets chirping constitute the hot and humid upsurge in the first half of the last month of summer.

Four ancient poems talk about summer heat: summer heat is not enough to be feared, and rain brings lotus leaf fragrance. From July 6 to 8 in the Gregorian calendar, the traditional summer heat of 24 solar terms is ushered in in the first half of June in the lunar calendar.

The summer festival in the last month of summer is the last period of traditional summer. Judging from the trajectory of the sun, it is the time when the sun runs southward through the Tropic of Cancer. At this time, it is not the longest day in a year, and it is getting shorter every day.

Now is the time when the accumulated temperature in the northern hemisphere of the earth is rising, and the heat brought by this accumulated temperature is getting worse and worse. In order to take care of the hotter summer heat, these fifteen days are called "light summer heat". It means that the "hot summer" is coming, but it has not yet reached its strongest.

What does the word "summer heat" mean? In ancient times, it was a special word, indicating strong temperature and humidity. Now people see Chinese characters going up and down for two days, or people basking in the sun, but the Xia character in Oracle Bone Inscriptions,

The more somatosensory image is that the sun is above and a huge cauldron is below, and firewood is burning below. Ancient cauldrons were usually used to cook hot soup.

This shows that summer heat is not only the heat in the sun, but also represents a kind of damp heat that is as uncomfortable as cooking.

The arrival of the summer solar term indicates that China in the northern hemisphere has entered the summer cooking mode, and it is in hot water, which is definitely not a double day of ice and fire, but a feeling of boiling water and scorching sun all day.