Peach blossoms have blossomed, spring dusk, and wheatgrass has entered summer.

Peach blossoms are in bloom, and it's dusk in spring, and I don't feel that wheatgrass has entered summer. Spring has gone and spring has come, and my heart is filled with emotion. Spring is always so short, and I have entered a long summer before I finish watching the flowers. Long summer is the seventh of the 24 solar terms and the first solar term in summer, which indicates the official start of summer.

Characteristics of long summer

As for the long summer, the twenty-four solar terms written by Wu Cheng in the Yuan Dynasty are interpreted as summer and holidays, at which time everything is false and big. The festival here means big, which means that the plants in spring have grown up at this time. Therefore, there is a so-called "seeing three new things" in the long summer custom in the south of the Yangtze River, which means eating fresh and tender things that grow at this time.

For example, the typical three innovations are cherries, broad beans and bamboo shoots, or they are replaced by plums, wheat and peas according to local conditions. Besides eating, of course, there is play, and even eating and playing. That is the most famous game in summer, fighting eggs, 24 solar terms, long summer, April Festival, Plum Festival, summer, holidays, and everything is fake at this time.

Astronomically, Chang Xia said that bidding farewell to spring is the beginning of summer. People used to regard the long summer as an important solar term for the obvious temperature rise, the approaching summer heat, the increase of thunderstorms and the peak season of crop growth.