Changxia: There are trees everywhere, and the wind is warm and the days are long.

Solar term: May 5th to 6th in Gregorian calendar.

Representative significance: bid farewell to spring (spring rain wakes up spring and bright valley days) and set up summer days.

The bucket refers to the southeast, and the dimension is long in summer. Everything has grown to this day, hence the name Long Summer.

Climatic characteristics: the summer heat is coming, and thunderstorms are increasing.

Three phases of solar terms: humming; Earthworms came out; Wang guasheng

Other phenology: roses bloom, sunflowers bloom, persimmons bloom.

In this section, the trees are full of branches, the wind is warm and the days are long, the lotus pond is new and Hua Hudie is busy. Farewell to spring, regret.

Representative verse: there is no catkin because of the wind, only sunflowers are inclined to the sun.

Long summer "tasting the new" is also the time to taste the coolness. Are foodies ready for plums, loquats and watermelons?

There is a custom of weighing in the long summer. Clothes can't cover your stomach. Hurry up!

Long summer is the seventh of the 24 solar terms, and it is the end of the calendar and the beginning of Mitsuki. The time point is between May 5th and 6th in Gregorian calendar, when the sun reaches 45 degrees of the yellow meridian. The date of the lunar calendar's long summer is not fixed, it is around the first day of April every year, because the lunar calendar is the lunar calendar. "The bucket refers to the southeast, and the dimension is long in summer. Everything grows here, hence the name Long Summer. " In astronomy, Chang Xia said that this is the beginning of summer bidding farewell to spring. When the temperature rises obviously, the summer heat comes, thunderstorms increase and crops enter the peak season, people are used to taking long summer as an important solar term.

folk custom

The word "summer" in "long summer" means "big", which means that the plants sown in spring have grown upright. In ancient times, people attached great importance to the customs and habits of long summer.

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 Fu, Cui Jian said: "Welcome to the summer is the first, and the spring is the last." Wu Outing's poem "Long Summer" also said: "There is no way to go in spring, and the cherry blossoms return in spring."

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.

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A few poems about summer:

1, Shantingxia, Tang Dynasty: Gaopian.

The trees grow dark in summer, and the balcony reflects the pond. The crystal curtains are blowing gently, and the roses are fragrant.

Interpretation of vernacular Chinese: The trees are lush and dark, the summer is long, and the reflection of the balcony is reflected in the pond. The water curtain shakes and the breeze blows, and the roses are full of fragrance.

2,' Early Summer Guest' Song Dynasty: Sima Guang

Original: April is sunny and rainy, and Nanshan is changed. There are no catkins in the wind, only sunflowers open to the sun.

Interpretation of vernacular Chinese: In early summer and April, the weather was sunny and warm, and it cleared up just after a rain. After the rain, the mountains are greener and more pleasant, and the Nanshan across the street has become clearer and cleaner. There are no catkins fluttering in the wind, only sunflowers blooming towards the sun.

3,' Ruan Langgui Early Summer' Song Dynasty: Su Shi

Original: green locust, high willow, swallow and new cicada. The wind began to enter the strings. The blue screen window is full of smoke. The sound of chess scares the day and sleeps. After a light rain, Xiao He turned over. Liu Hua is in full bloom.

Interpretation of vernacular Chinese: Outside the window, trees are shaded, tall willows move gently with the wind, cicadas stop suddenly, and the breeze blows the coolness of early summer into the house. Under the green screen window, the subtle fragrance of the latent fragrance drifts with the wind; A pleasant day's sleep, I was suddenly awakened by the sound of playing chess. After a light rain, Xiao He breezes. Pomegranate flowers are lined with moist green leaves, and the more you look at kurei, the more it burns.

4,' Early Summer' Song Dynasty: Lu You

Original: Hushan wins Weng's home, and Nakano's shadow is oblique. When the lake overflows, egrets fly in the air and frogs hum by the lake. The new crop of bamboo shoots has matured, and the magnolia has just begun to blossom. Alas, let bygones be bygones, who * * * will sleep in afternoon European tea.

Interpretation of the vernacular: the lakes and mountains are my home, and the path is faint under the shadow of Huai. When the lake overflows, egrets are dancing, grass is singing and frogs are everywhere. The bamboo shoots of the new crop have matured, but the brush flowers have just begun to bloom. When we met, we never met. Who mentioned it before we dreamed of having tea at noon?

5, "Early Summer" Song Dynasty: Zhu.

Bamboo shadows cover the secluded windows, and birds make noise every two days. Xie Que begonia flies out of the floc, and the weather is getting longer and longer.

Interpretation of vernacular Chinese: Bamboo covered the elegant shadow on the quiet window in the breeze, and birds in pairs sang noisily in the sunset. In this early summer, when the begonia flowers withered and Liu was exhausted, the world felt tired and sleepy only because of the hot weather, and the days began to get longer.