What does great summer mean? What is the custom of eating summer heat?

The summer heat is the twelfth of the twenty-four solar terms. Every year from July 22nd to 24th in the Gregorian calendar, the sun reaches the yellow meridian120th, indicating that the weather is extremely hot and the hottest period is coming. At this time, the temperature is the highest and there are many thunderstorms. In many areas of China, high temperature of 40 degrees Celsius often occurs. There are folk customs such as drinking tea, drying ginger and burning incense.

Hot in summer means hot. Explanation is the hottest solar term in a year. Generally speaking, the summer solar term is the period with the most sunshine and the highest temperature in a year in the basin, the period with the most abundant rainfall, the most common thunderstorm and the most concentrated high temperature days above 30℃ in the west of the basin, and the period with the most frequent high temperature above 35℃ in the east of the basin.

The high temperature around summer is a sign of normal climate, because in Da Chun, higher temperature is beneficial to the flowering and filling of crops. However, if the temperature is too high, it will inhibit the growth of crops and the seed setting rate of rice will decrease obviously. After the western part of the basin was flooded, light, heat and water were at the peak of a year, which promoted each other and formed good climatic conditions for crop growth in Da Chun, but attention should be paid to flood control and drainage.