Summer Solstice Characteristics and Customs in Brief

Characteristics of the summer solstice

The summer solstice is the day of the year when the sun is most northerly, the extreme northward movement of the sun, the day with the longest sunlight in the northern hemisphere, and the day when the daytime exceeds the nighttime at most. But the daytime hours everywhere from north to south is a decreasing trend. This is the Earth's rotational axis tilt caused by the effect of the day long and the night short, the closer the more obvious the cause of the two levels. Summer solstice day, the entire planet in addition to the South Pole and the Antarctic Circle in the polar regions, all locations of the sunrise direction is from the northeast to start, in the northwest fall.

The summer solstice this day, the sun directly above the ground to reach the northernmost point of a - year, almost directly to the Tropic of Cancer, the Tropic of Cancer from west to east through the four provinces of China's Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Taiwan, the four provinces is the territory of China's sun in the sky position of the most when the region, the sun's shadow is the shortest, the day is the longest, the darkest night is the shortest.

Summer Solstice Customs

1, sacrificing to the gods and ancestors: the summer solstice when the wheat harvest, since ancient times there are at this time to celebrate the harvest, sacrificing to the ancestors of the custom to pray for the elimination of disasters and harvests.

2, cool food to avoid the summer heat: people prefer to nourish the summer cool food to avoid the summer heat, so people generally drink cold soup, herbal tea, sour plum soup and other more traditional and very sweet food.

3, food wheat dumplings: food wheat dumplings is the custom of Jiangnan, "Wujiang County Records" records, the summer solstice, for wheat dumplings, sacrificing the first Bi, then to pay each other, not only food wheat dumplings, and wheat dumplings as a gift to each other.

4, eat wontons: summer solstice this day, the Wuxi people eat wheat porridge in the morning, eat wontons at noon, take the meaning of chaos and harmony, there is a proverb that says: summer solstice

wontons winter solstice group, the four seasons of the well-being of the people reunion, eaten wontons, but also for the child weighing, I hope the child to increase the weight of the more healthy.

Summer Avoidance: Generation Summer Solstice, women are giving each other folding fan, powder and other things, fan, to take the wind; powder, to smear, scattered body heat born of turbid gas, to prevent the birth of prickly heat.