What's the difference between hot summer and dog days?

The difference between summer heat, summer heat and dog days is different in time, climate characteristics and customs.

First, the time is different.

Great summer heat, one of the 24 solar terms, is the last solar term in summer. The ecliptic of the sun is 120, which will pass through the Gregorian calendar on July 22-24.

Summer is the eleventh of the twenty-four solar terms, at the end of the afternoon 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.

The dog days are mainly a long period of time, which can be divided into three days: the beginning, the middle and the end. Its date is determined by the solar term date of the dry calendar and the date of the dry calendar.

Second, the climate characteristics are different.

The heat is just around midsummer, and the high temperature and heat are accompanied by thunderstorms and rainy days, and it is also very humid and sultry. The heat began to enter the dog days, so-called "heat is in the dog days". The dog days generally appear between the hot summer and the hot summer, which is the time when the temperature is the highest and it is humid and sultry in a year.

The dog days last for a long time, just entering the crouching state is long summer. At this time, the weather has not fallen to hot time, but after crouching, the temperature reaches a peak, which is very hot and unbearable. At the end of the period, after entering beginning of autumn, the weather gradually turned cold.

Third, different customs.

China and Zhejiang Province have the custom of sending "summer boats" in summer. The custom of "drinking summer sheep" in southern Shandong. The custom of eating litchi in Putian, Fujian Province is "over the summer". The custom of eating "Cao Xian" in summer in Guangdong. The custom of eating pineapple in summer in Taiwan Province Province.

In the past, there was a folk custom of "eating new things" in southern China, that is, after the hot summer, farmers tasted new rice, ground the newly cut rice into rice, prepared to worship the food of the five grain gods and ancestors, and then everyone tasted new wine.

Sanfu's customs are mainly about diet, such as eating jiaozi first, eating noodles in the middle, and eating pancakes and eggs at last.

What's the difference between hot summer and dog days?

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Short Book

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