It’s the beginning of autumn in a blink of an eye. After the beginning of autumn solar term is the end of summer solar term. When is the end of summer in 2018? Both "extreme heat" and "great heat" have the same word for summer. "Great heat" or "extreme heat"?

When is the summer heat in 2018?

August 23, 2018.

The end of summer solar term is the second solar term in autumn. When it reaches the end of summer, it is early autumn. At this time, the seasonal changes are more obvious than at the beginning of autumn. The temperature in the area north of the Yangtze River gradually drops, and at this time, the sun reaches the twilight peak. After 150 degrees of longitude, it will revolve around the autumnal equinox, and it will slowly enter late autumn on the ground.

Great summer heat or extreme summer heat

Great summer heat and extreme summer heat are two extreme weather conditions. Great summer heat is the representative of heat, and extreme summer heat is the representative of cooling.

Shu means hot, and Dashu means great heat. Therefore, Dashu is the hottest solar term of the year, and Chushu is the autumn solar term. After Chushu, the heat goes away, and the temperature It will gradually get cooler and slowly enter late autumn.

What to eat during summer heat

Longan with porridge

After entering summer heat, it will gradually enter late autumn. After a summer, the human body consumes a lot of energy. Longan It is warm in nature and has a nourishing effect. For many elderly people, they like to peel a bowl of longan and eat it with porridge on the hot day.

Nuttinous rice balls

Nuttinous rice balls are also called white balls. The main ingredients are glutinous rice and white sugar. They contain more carbohydrates and have a sweet taste. They are suitable for relieving heat and fatigue.

Preparation method: Knead the glutinous rice flour into grains, then boil it in a pot. Add some sugar when it comes out of the pot, and a fragrant glutinous rice ball will be ready.

Herbal tea

The summer season is about to begin, so people like to cook some herbal tea on this day to help clear away heat and eliminate internal heat in the body. The main ingredients of herbal tea are seasonal cooling herbs. For example, mint, honeysuckle, lotus leaves and other foods.

Sour plum soup

After a hot summer, many people’s appetites have gone bad, so people like to drink some sour plum soup to help replenish the body during the heat. There is a saying: "Sour plum soup at the end of the summer heat, all the anger will subside"

Preparation method: brew the prunes with boiling water, add a small amount of rock sugar, let cool and put it in the refrigerator, drink it after a few hours, you will feel sour and sweet, Excellent taste.

Duck

Duck is cool in nature and is a meat dish that is very suitable for summer. After eating, it has the effects of nourishing yin, replenishing deficiency, diuresis and reducing swelling. There are many ways to make it, including sauce. How to eat salted duck, roast duck, white teal duck, lemon duck, white-cut duck, lotus leaf duck, walnut duck, ginger duck, roast duck, etc.

What are the three periods of summer heat?

The first period of waiting is for eagles to sacrifice birds, the second period for the sky and earth to begin to calm down, and the third period for crops to appear

The first period for eagles to sacrifice birds : After the end of summer, autumn is getting stronger. The eagles sense the changes in the weather in the future and begin to capture a large number of birds to continue to provide energy for the body. They will display them first like a sacrifice and perform a ceremony before starting to eat them.

The sky and the earth begin to become solemn in the second period: when the heat reaches the end, it is almost late autumn, the earth has a chilling atmosphere, and everything begins to wither. "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals" says: "The sky and the earth are beginning to be quiet and cannot be conquered." It is intended to warn people that in autumn, they should focus on restraint and must not let go.

Three seasons of He Nai Deng: He is the general name for all kinds of crops, including rice, millet, millet, millet, wheat, beam and other crops. Deng means maturity. At the end of the summer season, the autumn harvest begins. , slowly began to accumulate food.

Guide to keeping healthy during summer heat

The climate is getting drier. Eat more foods that nourish yin and moisturize dryness to avoid damage caused by dryness. Eat less spicy and more acidic foods to enhance liver function. At the same time, you should eat less or no fruits such as watermelon during severe cold weather, and eat more yin-nourishing fruits such as apples, pears, and grapes. During the summer season, you should eat foods that can clear away heat and soothe the nerves, such as white fungus, lily, lotus seeds, honey, yellow croaker, celery, spinach, glutinous rice, sesame seeds, beans and milk. Properly cooking some mung bean soup is also a good choice.

What are the traditional customs of Chushu?

Ancestor worship in Zhongyuan

The folk customs before and after the Chushu solar term are mostly related to ancestor worship and welcoming autumn. Before and after the end of the summer heat, there will be folk activities to celebrate the Ghost Festival, commonly known as "July Half" or "Hungry Ghost Festival". In the old days, folk people would have a ceremony to open the gate of ghosts from the beginning of July, and until the gate of ghosts was closed at the end of July, there would be a Purdue Almsgiving activity.

It is said that the Purdue activity starts with opening the ghost gate, then erecting lanterns and setting off river lanterns to attract lonely souls; while the main body is building the Purdue altar, erecting solitary sheds, interspersed with robbing orphans, etc., and finally closing the ghosts. The door ends. Today, it has become a major activity period for ancestor worship.

Go out to welcome autumn

After the summer heat, autumn is getting stronger, which is a good time for people to go out to the countryside to welcome autumn and enjoy the scenery. After the summer heat, the heat has subsided, and even the clouds in the sky appear dispersed and free, unlike the dense clouds that form in lumps during the summer heat. There has always been a folk saying of "looking at the clever clouds in July and August", which means "traveling to welcome autumn".

Putting river lanterns

River lanterns are also called "lotus lanterns". They usually place lamps or candles on the base. They are placed in rivers, lakes and seas on the night of the Ghost Festival and allowed to float pan. The purpose of putting up river lanterns is to bring away drowned ghosts and other lonely ghosts in the water. A passage in Xiao Hong's "Hulan River Biography" is the best footnote to this custom: "The fifteenth day of July is a ghost festival; the dead souls resentful of ghosts cannot be reborn. It is very painful to linger in hell and want to be reborn. I can’t find a way. If there is a dead ghost holding a river lantern on this day, I will have to survive.”

The fishing festival

For coastal fishermen, the fishing harvest will be harvested after the summer heat. During the summer season every year, a grand annual fishing festival is held along the coast of Zhejiang Province. It is decided that on the day when the fishing moratorium ends in the East China Sea, a grand fishing ceremony will be held to send off fishermen to sail out to sea. The 9th China Fishing Festival in 2006 was held in Xiangshan County, Zhejiang Province on September 6. Because; at this time, the water temperature in the sea is still high, the fish will still stay around the sea, and the fish, shrimp and shellfish will mature. Therefore, from this time onwards, people can often enjoy a wide variety of seafood.

The custom of splashing water

In some areas, there is a custom of splashing water to cool down during the month from severe heat to hot summer.