Seven Flowers in Peach Blossom Festival

Refers to the past of spring and the arrival of long summer.

Long summer is the seventh solar term among the twenty-four solar terms and the first solar term in summer. The festival is held on May 5-7 of the Gregorian calendar every year. At this time, the bucket handle of the Big Dipper points to the southeast, and the longitude of the sun reaches 45. Long summer is an important solar term, marking the peak season for the growth of all things. Almanac: "The bucket refers to the southeast dimension and the long summer. Since then, everything has grown up, hence the name Long Summer.

Chang Xia said that saying goodbye to spring is the beginning of summer. Spring comes and summer grows, autumn harvests and winter storage, and in the long summer, everything is thriving. Because China has a vast territory and a large span from north to south, natural rhythms vary from place to place. In the long summer season, only the area south of Fuzhou-Nanling line in China enters the real summer of "the trees grow dark in summer and the balcony reflects into the pond"; And parts of the northeast and northwest just have the breath of spring at this time. According to the classification standard of modern climatology in China, the daily average temperature rises steadily to above 22℃, starting in summer.