What does summer solstice mean? What does summer solstice mean?

1, what does the summer solstice mean in the 24 solar terms? The solstice in summer means that the heat is coming.

Solstice is the earliest of the 24 solar terms. In the 7th century BC, the shadow of the sun was measured by civil soil gauge, thus the summer solstice was determined. Wei Shi said: "The sundial is extremely cloudy, and the night leaks for a long time." On the day of summer solstice, the sun shines almost directly on the tropic of cancer, with the longest day and the shortest night in the northern hemisphere.

The arrival of summer solstice means that the summer heat is coming. As the saying goes, "the sun always sparks, and midsummer is coming." After the summer solstice, most parts of China will enter midsummer, which is the most difficult heat in a year. During this period, the digestive function of the human body is relatively weak, so the diet should be light, not fat and thick, eat more miscellaneous grains to make the body catch cold, and don't overeat hot food to avoid helping heat; Eating melons and fruits in cold sex should be enough, not overeating, so as not to damage the spleen and stomach; Products with strong flavor and high fat should be less than much, so as to avoid hot wind and stimulate the disease of boils.