Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - The 24 Solar Terms - Long summer days are still short.

Long summer days are still short.

The time of day will not change, it is 24 hours. Long summer is also a regional concept, with long summer in the northern hemisphere and beginning of winter in the southern hemisphere. In addition, different areas have different daylight hours. For example, it doesn't get dark until summer 10 in Xinjiang. Long summer is the first solar term in summer, which indicates the change of seasons and the official start of midsummer season. When the sun reaches 45 degrees of the yellow meridian, it is a long summer, usually on May 5 or 6 of the Gregorian calendar every year.

The time of day will not change, it is 24 hours. Long summer is also a regional concept, with long summer in the northern hemisphere and beginning of winter in the southern hemisphere. In addition, different areas have different daylight hours. For example, it doesn't get dark until summer 10 in Xinjiang. Long summer is the first solar term in summer, which indicates the change of seasons and the official start of midsummer season. When the sun reaches 45 degrees of the yellow meridian, it is a long summer, usually on May 5 or 6 of the Gregorian calendar every year.

The long summer:

"Summer" in long summer means "big", which means that plants sown in spring have grown upright. 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. There are three times in the long summer, the first time is the sound of insects, the second time is the appearance of earthworms, and the third time is the birth of melons. The main customs are welcoming the summer ceremony, tasting new things, playing egg games, and "weighing people" in the long summer.

Beginning of spring, Changxia, beginning of autumn and beginning of winter represent the beginning and arrival of spring, summer, autumn and winter respectively. In order to express the characteristics of time series more accurately, the ancients divided the solar terms into four groups according to the weather and phenology: divided, arrived, opened and closed.