Summer customs, activities and diet
1, customized activities for summer vacation
River lanterns usually place lights or candles on the base. Before and after the summer vacation, there will be activities to celebrate the Central Plains, commonly known as "July 30" or "Central Plains Festival", in which river lanterns are put into the water to drift, to mourn the dead and pray for peace.
Have a fishing festival. After the summer vacation, fishing harvest is a period, and the coastal areas of China often hold various activities in this solar term to send fishermen out to sea and look forward to a bumper harvest.
Goodbye, God of the Earth. The summer solar term coincides with the harvest season of crops, and farmers hold various ceremonies to thank the land god. Some killed animals to worship in the land temple, some planted flags in the middle of the field to express their gratitude, and some didn't wash their feet when they came home from work in the field on this day, for fear of washing away the harvest.
2. Summer diet
"July and a half duck, August and a half duck", the ancients thought that ducks in the middle of July in the lunar calendar were the most fat and nutritious. In summer, old Beijingers will buy lily ducks to cool off the summer, but in Jiangsu, it's so-called "sending ducks to cool off the summer makes everyone sick" to serve a bowl of duck dishes to their neighbors.
Meteorological changes of high temperature in summer
In summer, that is, "out of summer", the high temperature will gradually withdraw. After the summer, the direct point of the sun continued to move southward, the solar radiation weakened, and the subtropical high retreated southward. As the height of the sun decreases, the heat it brings also decreases. The arrival of summer means that the hot and difficult weather is over. During this period, the weather is still hot, but it has shown a downward trend. The disappearance of summer heat is a slow process. It doesn't mean that it gets cold immediately after the heat drops in summer. Generally, coolness will begin after the Millennium.
After summer, the temperature gradually decreases and the temperature difference between day and night gradually increases, but the temperature is still high during the day. The reasons for this phenomenon are as follows: first, the direct point of the sun continues to move southward, and the solar radiation weakens; Second, the subtropical high moved southward by leaps and bounds, and the Mongolian cold high began to itch to try.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Chu Shu