What's the solar term? What does this mean? What is the custom of eating it?

The summer heat is around July 23rd (July 22nd-24th) of the Gregorian calendar every year. "Great Summer" means that the weather is very hot and the hottest period is coming. In summer solar terms, there are customs such as drinking tea, drinking summer sheep (that is, drinking mutton soup), eating fairy grass, eating pineapple and eating litchi.

Summer is one of the twenty-four solar terms of the lunar calendar, and the sun is located in the yellow meridian 120. "Twenty-four solar terms" said: "Summer is in the middle of June. Summer, summer, size, small at the beginning of the month, big in the month, and still hot today. " Its climatic characteristics are: "Dou refers to C as a great summer heat, and the weather in Sri Lanka is stronger than a small summer heat, so it is called a great summer heat." The summer solar term is the hottest period of the year.

During the summer solar term, people have the custom of drinking tea. Fu Cha, as its name implies, is the tea people drink in dog days. This kind of tea, which is made of more than ten kinds of Chinese herbal medicines such as honeysuckle, selfheal and licorice, has the function of cooling and relieving summer heat. Many places in Guangdong have the custom of "eating fairy grass" in summer. There is a folk saying: "Eat fairy grass in the midsummer of June, live like a fairy, and never get old."

There is a custom of eating litchi to cool off the heat in Putian area. In southern Shandong, there is a custom of "drinking summer sheep" (that is, drinking mutton soup) on the day of summer heat. In Zaozhuang city, many citizens go to the local mutton soup kitchen to "drink summer sheep" in the hot summer. Taiwan Province province folk proverb "eat pineapple in summer" says that pineapple is the best in this season.