What is the date of Changxia 1997, and what is the date of Changxia?

Twenty-four solar terms represent a year. Every solar term comes, and every solar term will have different things to do. Some solar terms are transitional periods, and some solar terms are direct turning points. So is the long summer a transition period or a turning point?

Question: When is Changxia 1997? What day is today?

Answer: 1997 Long summer is 1997 May 6th.

Long summer is the seventh of the 24 solar terms and the beginning of Mitsuki. The time point is around April 12 of the lunar calendar (between May 5 and 6 of the Gregorian calendar). Through the perpetual calendar, we can see that the solar term in the long summer is 2065438+May 6, 2006.

What does long summer mean?

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. After the long summer, it is the key period for planting early rice in a large area, and the arrival and amount of rain during this period are closely related to the future harvest.

Good agricultural proverb: long summer never fails, and plows and rakes hang high. There is no rain in the long summer and no rice in Shantou. There is also a folk custom of weighing, because it is afraid of summer heat. After weighing myself on this day, I am not afraid of the heat in summer and will not lose weight, otherwise I will be troubled by illness. Jiangxi also has the custom of drinking tea in the long summer, saying that if you don't drink tea in the long summer, you will suffer all summer. As early as ancient times, kings often went out of the city to welcome summer on the first day of summer, and the day to welcome summer was long summer.