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What are the three treasures to eat in summer? What does the summer solar term mean?

People have the custom of eating three treasures-Monopterus albus, honey lotus root and mung bean sprouts this summer.

When the sun reaches 105 degrees on the 7th or 8th every year, it is a slight summer heat.

"Twenty-four solar terms": "On the first day of June ... the heat is also hot. It is small at the beginning of the month and big at the end of the month. Today the heat is still small."

Summer is hot. The ancients thought that the summer heat period was not the hottest time of the year, so it was called summer heat. There is also a solar term ballad: "Little summer is not hot, big summer is three days." It is pointed out that the hottest period of the year has arrived, but it has not reached the extreme hot level.

As the saying goes, "the heat is at three volts." The dog days in China generally appear in the summer to the next 28 days, which is the so-called "summer solstice is the first of the night"

In ancient China, the summer heat was divided into three periods: "First, it was warm and windy; Second, wait for crickets to live in space; The third waiting eagle began to fly. " In summer, there is no cool wind on the earth, and all the winds carry heat waves.