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In what season is the summer solstice solar term?

The summer solstice solar term is in summer. Summer solstice is the second solar term in summer and the earliest solar term among the 24 solar terms. Summer solstice is the longest day in a year, which is what we call "long days and short nights" geographically, that is, June 2 1 or 22 of the Gregorian calendar every year.

The summer solstice was also called "summer season" and "summer solstice festival" in ancient times, and "summer solstice" meant the arrival of hot summer. There is a cloud in the ancient poem, "The coffin in the daytime is extremely cloudy, and the night leaks from now on." Qingjun still contains powder, and the lotus begins to disperse. "It is said that in the summer solstice season, the days are getting longer and longer. At this time, the fresh bamboo still contains powder, and the lotus in the pond has begun to emit bursts of fragrance.

Like the winter solstice, the summer solstice is also a solar term reflecting the changes of the four seasons. Astronomy stipulates that the summer solstice is the beginning of summer in the northern hemisphere. From summer to the future, although the direct point of the sun began to move south from the Tropic of Cancer, the days in the northern hemisphere began to shorten gradually. For the Tropic of Cancer and its northern area, the height of the sun began to decrease day by day at noon, but the heat radiated by the sun to the ground was still more than the heat radiated from the ground to the air, so the temperature will continue to rise in the future, so there is a saying that the summer solstice is not too hot.