Characteristics and customs of the Little Summer Festival?

The following are the main features of the Little Summer festival:

1. Rain gradually increases and is relatively concentrated.

2. The weather becomes progressively hotter, but has not yet reached its peak.

3. Frontal thunderstorms occur in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River as they are often controlled by subtropical high pressure.

Small summer festival customs are as follows:

1. Eat new: in the small summer festival, the folk have "eat new" custom. People will be newly beaten rice, wheat and other ground into powder, made of a variety of cakes, noodles, and neighbors and folks to share, to express the wish for a good harvest. At the same time, these foods should also prepare a sacrifice to the ancestors, and ask for blessings on the wind and rain.

2. Eating summer goat: During the Xiaosummer festival, Lunan and northern Jiangsu will eat a traditional food called summer goat. This custom can be traced back to the Yao and Shun Dynasties, and there is a saying in the local folklore that "a bowl of soup from a sheep in Pengcheng is not necessary for a doctor to prescribe medicine".

3. Sun-drying clothes and paintings and calligraphy: On the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, there is a custom of sun-drying paintings and calligraphy, and clothing. It is said that this day after drying, you can avoid being moth-eaten, so there is a "June 6, sun red and green" said.