What does summer dream mean?

Xia Meng: Early summer refers to the fourth month of the lunar calendar.

Each of the four seasons of the lunar calendar has the arrangement of "Meng", "Zhong" and "Ji". The three months of midsummer in the lunar calendar are April, May and June, which are called Xia Meng, midsummer and the last month of summer respectively.

Xia Meng is the first month of summer, that is, April is Xia Meng, which is represented by Si in the twelve branches. Twenty-four solar terms are special festivals in the dry calendar, indicating the change of natural rhythm and establishing "December construction". Xia Meng includes two solar terms: Long Summer and Xiaoman. "Summer" means "big", which means that the plants sown in spring have grown upright. The Ming Dynasty wrote in "Eight Notes on Respect for Life": "On the day of summer dream, heaven and earth began to merge, and everything was beautiful.

The difference between summer and summer in Xia Meng;

1, the difference is that the time sequence is different and the solar terms involved are different. There are four seasons in the lunar calendar, including Meng, Zhong and Ji. The three months of the lunar summer are April, May and June, which are called Xia Meng, Midsummer and the last month of summer respectively.

In ancient times, Meng, Zhong and Ji were usually used to refer to the arrangement of brothers in the order of birth, so they can also be used to indicate the order of time.

3. Divide summer into three uniform parts, so Xia Meng, midsummer and the last month of summer are the names of these three parts in chronological order.

4. Their respective solar terms include Xia Meng: Xiaoman, Mangzhong, Midsummer: Midsummer Solstice, Slight Summer, and Late Summer: Dashu and beginning of autumn.