2022 Characteristics and Customs of Lixia Festival Introduction

Lixia is a festival that belongs to summer, and when people meet Lixia, they will start to dress in light summer shirts, eat food to reduce heat and relieve heatstroke, as well as feel the cool weather of summer. Here is my compilation of the characteristics and customs of the 2022 Lixia Festival, I hope it can help you.

Characteristics and Customs of 2022 Lixia Festival

Overall it represents the farewell to spring and the beginning of summer. People are accustomed to treat this festival as an important stage when the temperature rises significantly, the heat is approaching, thunderstorms increase, and crops enter the peak season of growth. At this time the temperature difference between the north and south of China is large, and the same area fluctuates frequently. The average temperature in most parts of the country is 18 to 20 ℃ up and down. In addition monsoon climate is the main feature of the summer by the influence of warm and humid airflow from the ocean, high temperature, humidity and rain, rain and heat at the same time, is conducive to crop growth.

What are the customs

1. Tasting: On the day of the festival, it is more popular to taste seasonal foods for health and good luck. Such as eating cherries, bamboo shoots, green fava beans, garlic, amaranth, green plums and other newly released fruits and vegetables.

2. Doing Summer: In the eastern part of Fujian Province, there is a custom of eating pot side paste. It is made by cooking rice paste on the side of a pot with shrimp, shrimp oil, green onions, golden needles, black fungus, clams, or a small amount of mushrooms, razor clams, and other seafood broth, which is extremely meaty and tasty.

3. Eat noodles: northern regions are generally eaten noodles, intended to celebrate the wheat harvest. The main types of pasta in the summer are summer cakes, pastries and spring rolls.

4. Drink seven tea: summer heat, it is appropriate to often drink tea, especially cool green tea, you can let the summer air suddenly eliminated, play a heat, diuretic detoxification effect. In this festival, some will go to each family to ask for some tea, brewed together to share, very festive atmosphere.

A brief introduction to the Lixia Festival

Lixia is the seventh of the twenty-four solar terms, the first solar term of summer. Lixia cross section time for the annual calendar May 05-07, when the handle of the Big Dipper points to the southeast, the yellow longitude of the big sun reaches 45 °. The Almanac: "Dou refers to the southeast, Vi for the Lixia, everything up to this point are growing, so the name of the Lixia also." The beginning of summer is an important festival marking the beginning of the peak season of growth of all things. After the summer, the sunshine increases, gradually warming up, thunderstorms increase, crops enter the stage of growth.

Lixia indicates the farewell to spring, the beginning of summer. Spring, summer long, autumn harvest, winter hiding, when the summer, all things flourish. Due to the vastness of our country, the north-south span, the natural rhythms of different parts of the country are not the same. Summer season, China only Fuzhou to the south of a line south of the region is the real "green trees and shade summer long, building reflection into the pond" of the summer; and the northeast and northwest of the part of the region at this time has just entered the spring. If the modern climatology (average temperature) of the division of standards, the average daily temperature rose steadily above 22 ℃ for the beginning of summer.

Characteristics of summer

Temperatures

In astronomy, the beginning of summer is the beginning of summer. People are accustomed to take the beginning of summer as a significant increase in temperature, hot summer will come, thunderstorms increase, crops into the peak season of growth of an important festival. The temperature difference between the north and south of China at the beginning of summer is large, and the same area fluctuates frequently. Most of the country's average temperature of 18-20 ℃ up and down.

Rain Characteristics

After the beginning of summer, it officially enters the rainy season, and the amount of rain and the number of rainy days increase significantly. Spring is born, summer grows, autumn is harvested, and winter is stored. Summer is the best season for many crops to grow vigorously, and the abundant light and suitable temperature as well as abundant rainfall provide plants with the conditions they need. Monsoon climate is the main feature of China's climate, summer by the influence of warm and humid airflow from the ocean, high temperature, humidity and rain, rain and heat at the same time, is conducive to crop growth. Crops enter a stage of vigorous growth in the summer.

After the beginning of summer, North China, Northwest China and other places, the temperature rises very quickly, but precipitation is still not much, coupled with the spring windy, evaporation is strong, the atmosphere is dry and the soil drought often seriously affect the normal growth of crops.

Significance of Lixia