Auther：2022-07-19
Dashu, one of the twenty-four solar terms, is the last festival of summer. It falls on July 22-24 of the Gregorian calendar. The word summer means hot, and Daxu means the extreme heat. It is the hottest season of the year with the most sunshine and the hottest weather, and it is the peak of humidity and heat. Climate characteristics: high temperature, frequent thunderstorms and typhoons. It is the hottest time of the year as it coincides with the mid-volts of the three volt days. The sun is fierce, hot, humid and rainy during the summer, although not without the pain of heat and humidity, but very conducive to the growth of crops, crops grow fastest during this period.
Since ancient times, folklore has the custom of drinking herbal tea (Fu Cha) on the three days of summer heat; Fu Cha, as the name implies, is the three days of drinking tea, this herbal medicine boiled into the tea has a cooling effect on the summer heat. In addition, there are also customs such as burning voodoo incense, sun voodoo ginger. Summer is the hottest weather of the year, the heaviest dampness, the focus of health care at this time of year is heat and dampness.
Sending summer boat is a traditional folk custom in coastal areas of Zhejiang, especially in many fishing villages in Taizhou, the meaning is to send the five saints out to sea, send the summer to protect the people. Sending big summer boat, accompanied by colorful folk arts and cultural performances.
