What are the solar terms before the long summer? What is the next solar term in the long summer?
Long summer, one of the 24 solar terms, is the long summer solar term when the sun reaches 45 on May 5 or 6 every year. China has been used to long summer as the day of long summer since ancient times. Astronomically, Chang Xia said that bidding farewell to spring is the beginning of summer. When the temperature rises obviously, the summer heat approaches, thunderstorms increase, and crops enter the peak season, people are used to treating long summer as an important solar term.
In the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, the waiting temperature in the long summer season is close to the climatological standard, which is the origin of the twenty-four solar terms. From this point of view, it is practical to regard the Long Summer Festival as long summer in the 24 solar terms. In May, Sophora japonica blooms in many places. In the long summer, everything is thriving.
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On the long summer day, the ancient emperor would lead officials to the southern suburbs of Beijing to welcome the summer and hold a ceremony to welcome the summer. The monarch and his subjects all wear red ceremonial costumes and red jade ornaments. Even horses and car flags should be red to express their prayers and good wishes for a bumper harvest. In the imperial court, "open the ice in summer and give it to the civil and military ministers." Ice was stored last winter and given to officials by the emperor.
In Jiangsu and Zhejiang, people are sad and cherish spring because of the bright spring, so they prepare wine and vegetables for fun, as if they were giving people away, and call it Hunchun. In the folk, people drink cold drinks to cool off in summer. In summer, there is a custom of boiling tender broad beans in Jiangnan water town. In some places, there is also the custom of calling people in summer.