On the Seven Poems of Chang Xia

Kevin's Four Poems and Three Returns to Mao Changxia.

one

There are old red remnants, and green mountains and green belts are far and near.

Spring fatigue grows old with the wind, and summer flowers come first.

Secondly,

Hugh said it was good to spend March, but long summer felt more refreshed.

Cut the soft wind and blow people's faces, hoping only for the high willow cicadas to sing.

third

Lilacs are as dense as clouds, and the tender purple and new charming don't let spring.

Borrow an inch of smoke from He Fang and dream of becoming a Jiangnan person.

About the long summer.

Enter the solar calendar in May, see Grain Rain off and welcome the long summer. Long summer is the first solar term in summer, which indicates that spring has passed, the days are long, the nights are short and the weather is getting hotter. All kinds of insects in the soil soon became active. One by one, they went underground from caves and sang everywhere. In this season, everything flourishes and matures. Yang Wanli's "Xiao He has just emerged, and the dragonfly has long stood on his head." This poem can best represent the solar terms in the long summer season.

Folk culture of long summer solar terms

There is a custom of "weighing people", hanging eggs, eating long summer rice and drinking "resident wine" in the long summer.

After Chang Xia finished eating, he was weighed. Hanging a big scale on the beam, adults will hold the scale hook with both hands and weigh it with their feet suspended; The children sat in the laundry basket and weighed themselves. If you gain weight, it's called "gaining weight", and if you lose weight, it's called "eliminating meat". "Resident colored wine" is a kind of drink made by squeezing plum juice into wine, which has the functions of beauty beauty, appetizing and relieving summer heat.