Is Long Summer a traditional festival?

Long summer is a traditional folk festival in China, which is called "Long Summer Festival", but it is not a legal holiday.

Long summer is one of the 24 solar terms in China. The arrival of long summer means entering summer and the weather becomes hot. So long summer is a traditional festival? Let's get to know each other.

0 1 long summer usually means that plants sown in spring begin to grow and their shapes have been erected. In ancient times, people at that time attached great importance to the customs and habits of the long summer.

In ancient times, whenever summer came, the emperor would lead hundreds of officials to welcome the long summer in the suburbs of Beijing and hold a grand ceremony to welcome the arrival of summer.

In the Ming Dynasty, in the long summer days, the emperor would ask the officials concerned to take the ice cubes stored in winter out of the cellar and distribute them to the officials. This has become an established custom in the Ming Dynasty.

In summer, the folk custom in some parts of China is to put the cooked wheat and barley ears on the fire and cook them before eating. In that long summer, I weighed myself and prayed for my blessing.

In the folk, there is also a custom of prohibiting family members from sitting on the threshold in summer. In summer, many people will predict whether crops will have a bumper harvest in that year through sunny or cloudy weather.