What's the difference between festivals and solar terms?

The concepts of solar terms and festivals are completely different.

Solar term is a natural solar term, and it is a specific festival established according to the change of natural rhythm in the trunk calendar. The 24 solar terms are: beginning of spring, Rain, Sting, Equinox, Qingming, Grain Rain, Changxia, Xiaoman, Mangzhong, Summer Solstice, Xiaoxia, Daxia, beginning of autumn, Early Summer, Bailu, Autumn Equinox, Cold Dew, Early Frost, beginning of winter, Light Snow, Heavy Snow, Winter Solstice, Slight Cold and Severe Cold.

Festivals are memorable and important days in life, with humanistic connotation. It is a kind of folk culture created together to meet the needs of production and life.

Some festivals originated from traditional customs, such as Spring Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Double Ninth Festival and so on. Some festivals originated from religion, such as Christmas and Laba Festival. Some festivals come from the commemoration of someone or an event, such as Dragon Boat Festival and Cold Food Festival. Some days are designated by sports advocated by international organizations, such as Labor Day, Women's Day, Mother's Day, Earth Day and Reading Day. Some are both solar terms and festivals, such as Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Brief introduction of Xiao Shu:

Summer is the eleventh of the twenty-four solar terms, at the end of the afternoon and the beginning of the month. The sun reaches longitude 105 degrees, and the festival is held on July 6-8 of the Gregorian calendar every year. Summer means hot, a little hot, not very hot. It's getting hotter, but it's not the hottest.

Although light summer is not the hottest season in a year, it is followed by the hottest solar term in a year. There is a folk saying that "it is hot in summer and hot in summer, and it is steamed and cooked". Many places in China have entered the season with the most thunderstorms since summer.

The heat began to enter the dog days. The so-called "hot dog days". The dog days generally appear between the hot summer and the hot summer, and it is the time with the highest temperature and humid heat in a year.

Monsoon climate is the main feature of China climate. In summer, affected by the warm and humid air flow from the ocean, many places in China are hot, humid and rainy. Although the sun is scorching, it is hot, humid and rainy at this time. For crops, the same period of rain and heat is conducive to growth.