Cultural Connotation of Long Summer Festival

The first solar term in summer means the official start of the Xia Meng season, and the solar term in long summer is when the sun reaches 45 degrees of the yellow meridian. The bucket refers to the southeast, and the dimension is long in summer. Everything has grown to this day, hence the name Long Summer. What is the special significance of this festival for ancient farmers?

Long summer is a solar term established at the end of the Warring States Period (239 BC), which indicates the change of four seasons and the beginning of summer in four seasons. In fact, according to the standard of climatology, the daily average temperature rises to above 22℃ steadily, starting from summer. Before and after the long summer, only the area south of Fuzhou-Nanling line in China is the real summer when the trees are dark and the balcony is reflected into the pond, while some areas in the northeast and northwest have just entered spring, and the average temperature in most parts of the country is around 18 ~ 20℃, which is the late spring season. In May, many places witnessed the blooming of Sophora japonica. In the long summer, everything is thriving.

Long summer comes first, which means that the weather gets warmer, the temperature rises, the hot summer comes and the rain increases. Experts say that the long summer is beneficial to the physiological activities of the human heart. At the turn of spring and summer, people should adapt to the change of weather, pay attention to their hearts and learn to practice.

In summer, many people feel unwell, headache, insomnia and fidgety. They want to adjust deliberately, but they are more and more depressed and unhappy. Experts believe that this is related to the endurance of the heart. Experts pointed out that in the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, man and nature are a unified whole, and the changes of the four seasons in nature are interrelated with the functional activities of the five internal organs of the human body.

Heart corresponds to summer, that is to say, the heart yang is the most prosperous in summer, and it reminds people to adapt to the weather changes at the turn of spring and summer and pay attention to heart maintenance. In other words, this time is the best time for people to keep fit.