"Counting Nine Ballads" in the Summer of Midsummer

Walking on the ice in 3949,

Look at the willows by the river on May 9th and June 9th.

Seven or nine rivers opened, and eight or nine swallows came.

Ninety-nine plus nineteen plowed cows everywhere.

Midsummer, the term of solar terms, is actually midsummer. In ancient times, it was divided into Meng, Zhong and Ji. One of these three months is the hottest time in summer. At this time, many fruits and vegetables are ripe. In midsummer, the weather is hot, and old people and children are prone to heatstroke. Therefore, in life, we should adopt a scientific diet, reasonably relieve summer heat and keep healthy.

Xia, there are many nicknames. In Er Ya, China's earliest monograph on meaning, summer is called "Zhu Ming", "Chang Ying", "Jiuxia" and "Haotian".

"History of Rites and Music" has the sentence "Zhu Ming is prosperous and applicable to all things"; In the preface to Murong by Tao Yuanming in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there is a sentence that "the sun and the moon move, and nine summers are already summer"; Amin poet Gao Panlong called summer "long summer" in Poems on Leisure Summer.

This long summer refers to the early summer, midsummer and late summer in April, May and June of the lunar calendar. The ancients called the hottest dog days in summer "midsummer". It is very hot in midsummer, and people are looking forward to spending it quickly, so it is also called "relieving summer heat" and "relieving summer heat". Among the twenty-four solar terms formulated by Liu An, King of Huainan in Han Dynasty, there are six solar terms in summer: long summer, full summer, awn seed, summer solstice, light summer and great summer. Among them, long summer refers to the southeast, and Victoria refers to long summer. Since then, everything has grown up, hence the name Long Summer. On this day, the sun reached 45 degrees, and the ancients used it as the symbol of long summer.

Summer harvest, summer sowing and summer management. "Su Wen Si Qi Qu Zi Spirit" says: "Xia San month, this is called anti-Hugh; Heaven and earth are in harmony and everything is gorgeous. " After the long summer, it is the busy farming season, which is the key period for crops to enter the peak season and sow early rice in large areas. There is a proverb in agriculture: "Three dynasties have long summers and hoes everywhere". At this time, the rainfall, rainfall and wind direction are closely related to the harvest.