The origin of the summer, customs, folk in the festival this day have what activities

The origin of the Great Summer is the result of the long-term observation and exploration of astronomy, meteorology, and weather of the working people in China. During the period of the Great Summer, Chinese folk drink ambrosia tea, sun ambrosia ginger, burn ambrosia incense, drink mutton soup and other customs.

Between July 22 and 24 every year, reaching 120 ° of the yellow longitude for the "summer" festival. The Great Summer is a festival that reflects the heat of summer. The moon order seventy-two wait for a collection of explanation ":" June in the middle of the summer, hot, hot also, on the heat is divided into the size of the beginning of the month for the small, in the middle of the month for the big, this is the heat is also big." That is to say, summer, is the meaning of heat, divided into small summer and big summer, big summer weather is particularly hot.

Customs: Southeastern Shandong region in the summer this day, "drinking summer sheep" (drink sheep soup) custom; Zhejiang region to send "summer boat" custom; Fujian Putian people have to eat lychee, mutton and rice bad customs, called the "over the summer". "over the summer"; many places in Guangdong have the custom of "eating fairy grass"; Taiwan has the custom of eating pineapples; some areas of the people after dinner to fight crickets as a custom of fun.