When will it start this year?

The summer of 2023 begins at 2: 00 on May 6, 2023, 18: 34, and on Saturday, March 17 of the lunar calendar.

Long summer custom:

1, welcome summer

In agricultural proverbs, there is a saying that "see summer in the long summer", which means that the crops to be harvested in summer have entered the late growth stage, and the overall situation has been set, so the harvest can be seen in the long summer.

In ancient times, China, as an agricultural society, attached great importance to the solar terms in the long summer. Every day in the long summer, the monarch and his subjects put on Yu Pei's red dress, horses and car flags of the same color, and held a welcoming ceremony in the southern suburbs of Beijing under the leadership of the emperor to express their prayers and expectations for a bumper harvest.

After the ceremony, many officials will be assigned to various places to encourage farmers to pay close attention to farming and exchange hard work for a bumper harvest year, so that people can have enough to eat and wear warm clothes.

Step 2 hang eggs

There is an old saying: "If you have an egg hanging on your chest in summer, children will not get sick in summer.". Summer sickness, also known as bitter summer, is a common disease in summer. Summer heat leads to physical fatigue, emaciation, anorexia, etc., and children are particularly prone to summer sickness. But if you hang eggs on your chest on a long summer day, your child won't get summer sickness.

Long summer means:

Long summer is an important solar term, marking the peak season for the growth of all things. After the long summer, the sunshine time increases, the temperature rises gradually, the thunderstorm increases, and the crops enter a vigorous growth stage.

Long summer is the seventh of the 24 solar terms and the first in summer. The long summer festival is from May 5th to 7th in 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.

In the long summer season, only the south of Fuzhou-Nanling line in China is the real summer of "the trees grow dark in summer and the balcony reflects into the pond"; And parts of the northeast and northwest have just entered the spring. According to the classification standard of modern climatology in China, summer begins when the daily average temperature rises steadily above 22℃.

After the long summer, the temperature in North China and Northwest China rose rapidly, but the precipitation was still not much. In addition, it is windy in spring with strong evaporation. Atmospheric dryness and soil drought often seriously affect the normal growth of crops.

The data are compiled from the constellation network of Shenba.