So what day is the 2021 summer festival? What are the traditional customs? The summer is the seventh of the twenty-four seasons, the arrival of the summer marks the end of spring, the beginning of summer, the summer is also known as the "summer festival", people are accustomed to the summer as the temperature rises significantly, the thunderstorms increase a festival.
So what day is the 2021 summer festival? What are the traditional customs?
One, 2021 is the day of the summer festival?
Lixia is the seventh of the twenty-four solar terms in the lunar calendar, the first solar term of summer.
Summer begins when the sun reaches 45 degrees of the yellow meridian, on May 5 or May 6 of the Gregorian calendar.
The 2021 Lixia (立夏) solar term is the unsettled hour of May 5, 2021, at the exact time of 14:47:01, on Wednesday, the 24th day of the 3rd month of the year xinshou (辛丑) in the lunar calendar.
2. What are the traditional customs of the Lixia Festival?
1, welcome summer
Ancient people believe that summer is the time of high yang, welcome summer and summer is the main content of summer seasonal beliefs and rituals.
Xiao put in the "twenty-four seasons and folklore," mentioned, "the beginning of summer, as the beginning of summer, since ancient times by the people to pay attention to.
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In ancient times, on the day of the beginning of summer, emperors would lead civil and military officials to the southern outskirts of the capital to welcome the summer and hold a ceremony to welcome the summer.
All the officials wore vermillion-colored dresses with vermillion-colored jade pendants, and even the horses and car flags had to be vermillion-colored to express the good wishes in anticipation of a good harvest.
2. Eating Lixia Rice