What is the meaning of summer vacation? What are the customs about summer vacation?

1 is the 14th of the 24 solar terms in summer. Dou Zhiwu (Southwest); The solar meridian reaches150; August 22-24 of the Gregorian calendar every year. Being in the heat is "out of the heat", that is, out of the heat. In summer, the direct point of the sun continues to move southward, the solar radiation weakens, the subtropical high also withdraws southward, the temperature gradually drops, and the summer heat gradually disappears. The arrival of summer means that the hot and difficult weather is over. During this period, the weather is still hot, but it has shown a downward trend.

2. Summer solar terms are in the period of short-term regenerative weather (autumn tiger), which generally occurs between August and September in the Gregorian calendar. The duration of autumn tigers generally ranges from half a month to two months. The significance of summer heat in daily life is to remind people that the summer heat is gradually disappearing and the weather is turning from hot to cold, so we should pay attention to preventing "autumn dryness". There are many folk activities in summer, such as eating ducks, setting off river lanterns, opening fishing festivals, decocting medicinal tea and offering sacrifices to the land.