The Time and Significance of the Summer Heat

The time of light summer is July 6, 7 and 8 every year. It means the weather is getting hot, but it's not the hottest yet.

Xiao Shu introduced:

Summer is the eleventh of the twenty-four solar terms, at the end of the afternoon and the beginning of the month. The sun reaches longitude 105 degrees, and the festival is held on July 6-8 of the Gregorian calendar every year.

Summer means hot, a little hot, not very hot. Although light summer is not the hottest season in a year, it is followed by the hottest solar term in a year. There is a folk saying that "it is hot in summer and hot in summer, and it is steamed and cooked". Many places in China have entered the season with the most thunderstorms since summer.

The heat began to enter the dog days. The so-called "hot dog days". The dog days generally appear between the hot summer and the hot summer, and it is the time with the highest temperature and humid heat in a year.

Monsoon climate is the main feature of China climate. In summer, affected by warm and humid air currents from the ocean, many places in China are hot, humid and rainy. Although the sunshine is fierce, the temperature is high, the humidity is high and there is a lot of rain in this season, for crops, the same period of rain and heat is conducive to growth.

In the past, in the south of China, there was a folk custom of "eating new things" in summer, that is, after the summer, farmers tasted new rice, ground the newly cut rice into rice, prepared to worship the food of the five grain gods and ancestors, and then everyone tasted new wine.

In the north, there is a tradition of eating jiaozi first. Fukui people have poor appetite and tend to weigh less than usual, which is called bitter summer. In traditional customs, jiaozi is the food to satisfy their appetite. jiaozi looks like an ingot, which means "Yuanbao Fu". Eating jiaozi symbolizes full blessing.

Phenological phenomenon

Wu Cheng, a scholar in Yuan Dynasty, edited Twenty-four Solar Terms. According to the scenery around the Yellow River Basin and the characteristics of the twenty-four solar terms, he divided the twenty-four solar terms into "seventy-two periods", and each solar term was divided into three periods. The third phase of the summer heat is: "When the wind is warm; Second, wait for crickets to live in space; The third waiting eagle began to crow. "

In summer, there is no cool wind on the earth, and all the winds carry heat waves; The Book of Songs? In July, the words to describe crickets are "July is in the wild, August is in the house, September is in the house, and October crickets enter my bed."

August mentioned in this paper is June in the summer calendar, which is a short time in summer. Because of the heat, crickets leave the field and go to the corner of the yard to escape the heat. In this solar term, the eagle is in the cool high air movement, because the ground temperature is too high.