What are the customs of the summer solstice?
1, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors
The summer solstice is one of the "four seasons and eight festivals". Since ancient times, people have the custom of celebrating the harvest and offering sacrifices to their ancestors at this time in order to pray for a prosperous year. In the ancient farming society, when people lived and worked in peace and contentment, they chose a day to worship the gods and ancestors, and they had various regular festivals. The rich offerings to worship the gods and ancestors developed festival feasts, and gradually formed some established ways of celebration, that is, the so-called festival folklore.
2, summer shelter
On the summer solstice, women give each other folding fans, powder and other things. Youyang Zaju _ Liyi: "On the summer solstice, there are words for entering the fan and the powder fat bag." "Fan" to generate wind; "Powder fat" is applied to disperse turbid gas caused by body heat and prevent prickly heat.
3, eat noodles in the north and south of the summer solstice
Since ancient times, there has been a saying in some parts of China that "noodles are eaten on the winter solstice and jiaozi on the summer solstice", and eating noodles on the summer solstice is an important custom in many areas. Because the new wheat on the summer solstice has appeared, eating noodles on the summer solstice also means tasting new things.
When is the summer solstice?
As for the summer, the Gregorian calendar is on June 2 1~22. The summer solstice is the first 10 of the 24 solar terms. Fight refers to noon; The sun longitude is 90. The summer solstice is the turning point of the sun's northward travel. After the summer solstice, the direct point of the sun began to move south from the Tropic of Cancer, and the days in the northern hemisphere began to shorten gradually. For the area north of the Tropic of Cancer in China, after the summer solstice, the height of the noon sun began to decrease day by day; For the area south of the Tropic of Cancer in China, the height of the noon sun returns to the south after the summer solstice, and it begins to decrease day by day after the sun shines again.
Characteristics of summer solstice weather
High temperature, high humidity and occasional thunderstorms are the weather characteristics after the summer solstice. The summer solstice is in the middle of summer, that is, noon, which belongs to the sun; Although the summer solstice is full of yang and the longest day, it is not necessarily the hottest day of the year, so the heat near the surface is still being accumulated and has not reached the maximum. The summer solstice is not only one of the 24 solar terms, but also a festival in the "four seasons and eight festivals" in ancient times. Since ancient times, people have the custom of worshipping gods and ancestors on the summer solstice. In addition, after the summer solstice, people generally eat Qingbuliang soup, herbal tea and sour plum soup to escape the heat.