Small summer eating three treasures is what the meaning of small summer festival

Folk in the small summer this season has eaten three treasures - eel, honey lotus root, mung bean sprouts custom.

Every year Ming 7 or 8 depending on the sun reaches 105 degrees of yellow longitude, for the small summer.

"Monthly Order seventy-two wait collection": "June a capital -- ... summer, hot, also, on the heat in the division into size, the beginning of the month for the small, in the middle of the month for the big, today, the heat is still small."

Summer, indicating the meaning of heat, the ancients believed that the small summer period, is not the hottest time of the year, so it is called small summer. There is also a seasonal song said: "small summer is not hot, big summer three days." Pointed out that the hottest period of the year has come, but has not yet reached the degree of extreme heat.

As the saying goes, "The heat is in the three volts." China's three ambrosia generally appear in the summer solstice after 28 days, that is, the so-called "summer solstice three g counting the first ambrosia".

China's ancient will be divided into three small summer: "a wait for the warm wind to; the second wait for the crickets in the Yu; the third wait for the eagle began to rushing." In the summer, there is no longer a trace of cool wind on the earth, but all the wind with a heat wave.