Is it a custom to drink Fuzhen tea or enjoy peony in summer?

The custom in summer is to drink fuzhou tea.

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Summer is the twelfth solar term among the twenty-four solar terms and the last solar term in summer. The ecliptic of the sun is 120, which is from July 22nd to 24th in Gregorian calendar. "Summer heat" is heat, and summer heat is extremely hot.

Summer heat is hotter than summer heat. Summer heat is the most intense and hottest solar term in a year, and "hot and humid steaming" reaches its peak at this time. Climatic characteristics of the great summer heat: high temperature and intense heat, frequent thunderstorms and typhoons.

The summer solar term is the hottest time of the year, just before and after the "midsection" of the "dog days". In summer, the sun is like fire, the temperature is high, the humidity is high, and there is much rain. Although it is inevitable to suffer from high temperature and humidity, it is very beneficial to the growth of crops, and crops grow fastest during this period.

Since ancient times, there has been a folk custom of drinking herbal tea (tea) in the dog days of midsummer; Fucha, as its name implies, is a kind of tea to drink in dog days. This kind of tea boiled with Chinese herbal medicine has the function of cooling and dispelling summer heat. In addition, there are customs such as burning incense and drying ginger. "Great Summer" is the hottest and wettest season of the year, and the focus of health care at this time is "heatstroke prevention" and "dampness elimination".

China is a typical monsoon climate, which is controlled by subtropical high and other atmospheric circulation systems. From mid-June to mid-July, the main rain belt in eastern China generally extends from South China and Jiangnan to Jianghuai area. Late July ("seven drops and eight liters") is equivalent to the period from the scorching heat to beginning of autumn. With the seasonal northward movement of the subtropical high circulation system, the southwest monsoon will also move northward.

The southwest wind around the subtropical high transports the warm and humid airflow of tropical and subtropical regions to the northern region, where it meets the cold air of mid-latitude in North China and Northeast China, and North China and Northeast China begin to enter the rainy season. Northwest China is the arid area with the least annual precipitation in China, because it lives inland and far from the ocean.

Wu Cheng, a scholar in Yuan Dynasty, compiled twenty-four solar terms, which were divided into "seventy-two periods" in a year, and each solar term was divided into three periods. The third phase of the Great Summer is: "A rotten grass is a firefly; Second, wait for the soil to moisten and cool off the heat; It will be fine when it rains. " Every summer, because of the high temperature and rainy weather, bacteria are easy to breed, and many dead plants are wet and corrupt.

Fireflies can often be seen flying around rotting grass and leaves in search of food. In addition, the soil is hot and humid, which is very suitable for the growth of water-loving crops such as rice. The third kind of weather means that rain will fall in the sky at any time in this hot and humid weather in the same season.