About solar terms

As the saying goes, "cold is in the third grade, and heat is in the third grade." "Fu" is one of the solar terms other than the twenty-four solar terms in the lunar calendar, and Fu Day is the hottest period in a year, including the first, middle and last three periods, which is determined by combining solar terms with the date of the main branch. "The third Geng day after long summer is the first lodging day, the fourth Geng day is the middle lodging day, and the first Geng day after beginning of autumn is the final lodging day."

. In this way, the first and last days are 10 days, and the middle days are sometimes 10 days and sometimes 20 days. From the point of view of access, it is the hottest time in summer in China.

"Three volts fever" refers to three volts. So, which stage of the "three volts" has the highest average temperature? Generally speaking, it is the highest in the middle range, so the name of the solar term at that time was called "Great Summer". However, the extreme maximum temperature in a year between China and Japan is not necessarily in the middle, especially in the eastern coastal areas, including Qingdao, and it is mostly hot in the end. This is because the heat capacity of seawater is large, and the temperature rise is slower than that of land in spring and summer, so the hottest in the eastern coastal areas is in early and middle August.

Our country has the custom of "summer vacation" since ancient times. People should eat cool food in dog days. At this time, melons and fruits are ripe, so people soak them in well water and eat them when they are cold. Because the melon floats on the surface of the water and the fruit sinks to the bottom of the water, it is named "floating melon sinks plum". In this season, every household is full of flowers and plums, which is a kind of enjoyment. The folk diet in dog days is very distinctive. As the saying goes, "jiaozi is easy to drop, and pancakes spread eggs in dog days". This way of eating is to sweat more and excrete toxins from the body. In addition to the eating custom of sweating, there is also the custom of dog meat and mutton tonic in the countryside of our city in the afternoon.

The first day of the sixth lunar month has been said in Qingdao for half a year. It is said that half a year should be the first day of July, but the older generation followed this tradition, which is the first half of June. Especially in rural areas, it is paid more attention. In the old days, there was a festival of "hanging hoes" in rural JIAOZHOU, and the villagers regarded this day as a festival to celebrate and pray for a bumper harvest. By this time, the wheat has been harvested, and farmers should taste new things or visit relatives and friends. People put tables in houses, yards and wheat fields, put five kinds of fruits such as steamed jujube cakes and peaches and plums, fill wooden barrels with newly harvested wheat, paste the word "Fu" on the wooden barrels, burn incense and set off firecrackers, and pray for good weather in autumn. After that, people happily eat jiaozi, and there are "mixed dishes" made of meat, vegetables, vermicelli and kelp. The men also had a good time guessing in the wheat field.