There's a saying in China that "long summer sees summer, ant manor".
China does have a saying, long summer sees summer. Long summer is one of the 24 solar terms, which means the beginning of summer. In China, the fifth or sixth day of the fifth lunar month is a long summer, which usually means that the temperature starts to rise obviously, and crops grow faster, and it has entered the summer solar term. The observation of summer in long summer is an important basis for ancient farmers to observe meteorological changes and grasp agricultural time.
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In the traditional rural society, farmers attach great importance to the solar term of long summer. After the long summer, farmers will pay attention to various biological phenomena to divide different periods of summer. The function of observing summer in long summer is mainly to help farmers master the meteorological characteristics such as temperature, rainfall and wind direction in summer, so as to choose suitable crop planting and farming methods and obtain the best harvest.
With the development of science and technology, people can learn more accurate weather information through modern meteorological observation means, but observing summer in long summer still plays an important role in judging seasons and customs. At the same time, Chang Xia's observation of summer also bears the wisdom and painstaking efforts of the Chinese nation's Millennium farming civilization.
The cultural value of observing summer in long summer lies in its wisdom of farming and life. It not only represents the crystallization of farmers' wisdom, but also is an important part of China traditional culture. Looking at the summer in the long term, people can understand the traditional culture of China from many angles and feel the deep interdependence between nature and human beings.
In a word, Chang Xia's observation of summer is an important embodiment of China's traditional culture and wisdom, and it also has important enlightenment significance today. It reminds us to respect nature, make rational use of resources and inherit and carry forward the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation.
In the historical process of thousands of years of farming culture in China, our ancestors also summed up many meteorological agricultural proverbs to predict the future weather trend and the annual harvest through the different wind directions of the long summer solar terms in the long-term production practice. For example, there is a saying in rural areas that "the wind rises in the east in the long summer and the wheat floods".