What are the characteristics of summer solar terms?

1, Xiaoshu, the eleventh of the twenty-four solar terms, is the end of the afternoon month and the beginning of the month. The sun reaches longitude 105 degrees, and the festival is held on July 6-8 of the Gregorian calendar every year. Summer means hot, a little hot, not very hot. It's getting hotter, but it's not the hottest. Although light summer is not the hottest season in a year, it is followed by the hottest solar term in a year. There is a folk saying that "it is hot in summer and hot in summer, and it is steamed and cooked". Many places in China have entered the season with the most thunderstorms since summer.

2, the so-called "hot in three volts, cold in three or nine." The dog days, usually between the light summer heat and the heavy summer heat, are the time when the temperature is the highest and it is humid and sultry in a year. Monsoon climate is the main feature of China climate. In summer, affected by the warm and humid air flow from the ocean, many places in China are hot, humid and rainy. Although the sun is scorching, it is hot, humid and rainy at this time. For crops, the same period of rain and heat is conducive to growth.

There is a custom of "eating new things" in summer in ancient times. That is to say, after tasting the new rice after the slight summer heat, people will grind the newly cut rice into rice and make a good meal to worship the five grain gods and ancestors. Please bless the good weather. The newly-beaten rice will be ground into powder and made into various delicacies, which will be shared with neighbors and villagers to express their wishes for a bumper harvest.