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Farming in midsummer and three summers

Namely, summer harvest, summer sowing and summer management. "Su Wen Si Qi Qu Zi Spirit" says: "Xia San month, this is called anti-Hugh; Heaven and earth are in harmony and everything is gorgeous. " After the long summer, it is the busy farming season, which is the key period for crops to enter the peak season and sow early rice in large areas. There is a proverb in agriculture: "Three dynasties have long summers and hoes everywhere". At this time, the rainfall, rainfall and wind direction are closely related to the harvest. There are some agricultural proverbs, such as "it rains every three days in the long summer", "it doesn't rain in the long summer, and the plowshares hang high" and "it doesn't rain in the long summer, until the wheat is beaten". Therefore, since ancient times, our ancestors regarded Long Summer as a very important day and established it as a traditional folk festival, called Long Summer Festival. It can be said that summer is the mount of autumn, bearing the changeable situation, the torrential rain and the hot sun, and bearing the growth, maturity and harvest on the spring and autumn journey. ...