Summer is the festival that informs people of the change of seasons into summer, and it was created at the end of the Warring States period, which is the beginning of summer in the four seasons according to the lunar calendar in ancient times.

One, the ancients welcome summer

In ancient times there is a special ceremony to welcome the summer, the emperor and the civil and military officials to wear a vermilion red dress, wearing vermilion red jade pendant, and even the horses, the car flag should be vermilion red, and then united to the southern outskirts of the capital to go to the ceremony to meet the summer, to express the good prayers for a bumper harvest, because in ancient times, for a country, a bumper harvest or not is a very important thing, which caused the establishment of summer to become a very important festival in their minds, because seeds were sown in the spring, and the seedlings sown in the summer should grow up. The emperor would give ice to the civil and military officials to relieve the summer heat, and the people would also have the people drink cold drinks to relieve the summer heat.

Two, the custom of summer is different everywhere

Every summer season. China's provinces and regions have different ways to celebrate the summer. For example, Fujian Minnan area to eat shrimp noodles, also known as ? summer? Face of the harmonic, Min Dong area to eat light cake, Zhouning County to eat the Lixia paste, Zhejiang rural areas to drink seven porridge, the so-called seven porridge, is to bring together the family's rice, boiled into a pot of porridge, and then and everyone together to share the meaning of food. Jiangnan region to taste three new, the so-called three new is the season's fresh food, Anhui region this day is not allowed to sit on the threshold, otherwise it will be fatigue throughout the summer, a variety of different ways to celebrate the Lixia, are to welcome the arrival of the new summer.

Three, the seasonal characteristics of the summer

While it is said that after the summer should be summer, but China's vast territory, the temperature and performance of each place is different, such as Fujian region in the summer after the temperature will rise to more than 22 degrees, and temperatures gradually rise with the growth of time, but the Northeast and Northwest have just entered the spring, the temperature continues to be mild and sometimes a little cold, only in the region south of Fujian will rise to more than 22 degrees, and temperatures gradually rise with time, but the Northeast and Northwest have just entered the spring, temperatures continue to mild, sometimes a little cold. Only in the region south of Fujian will feel is really into the summer, the temperature rises every day, and walk on the road along the way are bright green leaves plus shade.