Auther：2022-06-21
The summer solstice, also known as Summer Festival and Summer Solstice Festival in ancient times, is the fourth solar term in summer. It is said that it is also the earliest solar term determined among the 24 solar terms. At this time, the sun shines directly on the Tropic of cancer, and the northern hemisphere has the longest sunshine time. Summer is the greatest and the most extreme. Everything here grows and flourishes to the extreme, and Yang Qi reaches the extreme. The summer solstice is a colorful and brilliant solar term: cicadas sing, frogs sing together, hundreds of birds sing, and all kinds of sounds come and go. With the green of lotus leaves and the bright red of lotus flowers, the hottest time of the year is coming.
High temperature, high humidity and frequent thunderstorms are the weather characteristics after the summer solstice. Liu Yuxi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, cleverly borrowed this kind of weather to write a famous poem the sun rises in the East and rains in the west, and the road is sunny without sunshine. The summer solstice is the time of the wheat harvest. Since ancient times, there has been a custom of celebrating the harvest and offering sacrifices to ancestors to pray for a good harvest. In addition, people have the custom of giving each other folding fans and eating noodles at the summer solstice to spend the summer. There is a saying among Chinese people that winter solstice wonton and summer solstice noodles , because the new wheat of the summer solstice has appeared, it is also meaningful to eat noodles at the summer solstice.
The ancients divided the summer solstice into three periods: the first period was when antlers were released, the second period was when cicadas began to chirp, and the third period was when Pinellia ternata was born. Deer are herbivores with antlers. At the summer solstice, antlers will feel Yin Qi and begin to fall off; The summer cicada, commonly known as zhiliao, is the leading singer in the summer. It tirelessly sings beautiful music in the trees and vibrates in the silent sky; Pinellia ternata is a kind of Yin loving herb, which grows in swamps or paddy fields. On this hot day, Pinellia ternata appears in people's vision with the smell of soil. The summer solstice has come, and everything is sunny. I wish my friends, full of enthusiasm, will live up to the sun and live up to the good times in summer!
