Gregorian Calendar: Summer Solstice (Father's Day) on June 21, 2020

Lunar Calendar: First Day of May in the Gengzi Year

Temperature: 26～34℃

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Weather: cloudy to sunny

Wind direction: southwesterly level 3-4

Coordinates: Nanfeng, Jiangxi

June 21, summer solstice , the longest day of the year.

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"The Collection of Seventy-two Hours of the Moon Order" says, "Summer Solstice, mid-May." "Yun Hui" says: Summer means holiday, solstice, extreme That is, everything here is falsely great and extreme.”

In other words, the "solstice" of the summer solstice does not mean the arrival, but the sun's northward journey to its extreme. After this day, the sun will "turn back" and the days in the northern hemisphere will become shorter day by day.

Summer is the greatest and most extreme period. All things grow strong and prosperous to the extreme, and Yang Qi reaches its extreme level. Therefore, the summer solstice is the day with the shortest night and the longest day of the year. It is a white night near the pole.

Speaking of White Night, one cannot help but yearn for Mohe, and one cannot help but think of Chi Zijian and "Arctic Village" - a northern town full of spirituality and tenderness. I think the Arctic Village in the summer solstice must have the most romantic night.

The 2020 Summer Solstice, Sunday, coincides with Father’s Day and an annular lunar eclipse. All the good things come as promised.

On the day before the summer solstice, a 19-minute video link to Li Ziqi's "A Life About Wheat" was sent to the children.

Twenty minutes later, on the other side of the screen, the children responded -

Classmate Chen You said: Li Ziqi lives a primitive and free life! You can find the rural life of your childhood. From wheat sprouts to malt candies, these are all the New Year's goods that I had to prepare during the Chinese New Year when I was a kid. It's just that in the south, rice is harvested, not wheat.

Yu Xiang said: According to data, people’s most ideal life is actually a pastoral life.

Classmate Ni Ke said: In our eyes, this kind of life is very tiring and hard. But in Li Ziqi's eyes, it was a kind of enjoyment.

Let me tell you quietly, Li Ziqi’s life is what Teacher Chen dreamed of.

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In the morning recitation class the next day, when Gao Pian’s song "Summer in the Mountain Pavilion" appeared on the big screen——

Green The shade of the trees is thick and the summer is long, and the balcony is reflected into the pond.

The crystal curtain moves, the breeze rises, and the roses fill the courtyard with incense.

Some children have already memorized it with their heads shaking. Classmate Chen You said, Teacher, we read this poem at the beginning of summer. I asked the children to talk about it. After reading this poem, where do you see the poet? The children quickly answered, of course it is in the mountain pavilion! You see, the title of the poem tells us that.

Speaking of which, during the online learning period, we had been doing morning recitation for several months, and the children who followed us should have accumulated a certain amount of poetry.

So, I asked again: with Zhao Youzhi's "I feel tired when I fall asleep by the south window, and I look at the pavilions covered with locust trees", and also with Yang Wanli's "I fall asleep with no emotion during the day, and I look at the children playing games." Compared with "Liuhua", does the summer in Gao Pian's works give you a different feeling? What does that feel like?

Children who are familiar with these lines of poetry will naturally be able to travel through time and space through the words and feel the taste of life of the ancients.

Some children said that Gao Pian's poem is more beautiful, but Yang Wanli's "Catching Willow Flowers" is very interesting.

Some children also said that this poem is so leisurely.

Read this text on the big screen to the children, and they will naturally understand it -

Because of the wind, the fragrance of roses fills the courtyard. If the rose has no fragrance, what will happen if the wind moves again? Therefore, dear children, we also need to work hard to save our own energy, so that when the wind blows, the fragrance will naturally drift out.

When I said this, every child looked thoughtful.

When it comes to the third time of the summer solstice, the children become active again.

After a while, the antlers were solved. Deer is a mountain animal that belongs to Yang. During the summer solstice, the Yang energy is at its peak and then declines, and the antlers fall off due to the Yin energy.

Children are very curious about the shedding of antlers. Children who are interested should go to Broad Reading to deepen their understanding. A lot of my knowledge about deer actually comes from Heihe’s animal novels. Heihe's "My Primitive Forest Notes" presents to us a fragment of the life of a dying nation - the deer-making Ewenki, walking together in a quiet forest with tall and majestic reindeer.

In the second hour, the cicadas began to sing. Because of the cicadas during the summer solstice, I never feel lonely. In my memory, it seems that the summer with the chirping of cicadas is the real summer. Cicada has deservedly become the most important protagonist of this summer.

In real summer, a cicada-catching artifact is naturally indispensable - a long thin bamboo pole with a circle made of thin wire tied to one end, and a plastic bag placed on top. Such a magical tool, a must-have for summer.

At noon in midsummer, while my parents were taking a nap, I took my three cicada-catching tools and slipped out quietly to meet my friends.

In the afternoon, the sun is just right and the cicadas are chirping happily. My friends and I walked through the orange forest. After a while, our little faces were red from the sun, but listening to the flapping sound of cicada wings in the small bag, joy had already filled our chests. Soon, we discovered the secret of cicada’s chirping. It turns out that cicadas chirp only when they have two small covers on their abdomen that can be opened. The white film inside the small cover is the reason why its cry is loud and spreads far and wide.

It seems that what we are most indispensable when traveling in the countryside is the desire to explore the world.

In the third horoscope, pinellia is born. It is said that Pinellia ternata is a wild Chinese medicinal herb, and it is most suitable to collect its underground tubers in the middle of summer.

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When I was invigilating the exam that day, I stood on the fifth floor of Teaching Building No. 1. The maple and poplar trees in front of me really fascinated me. Standing in front of it, I had only one thought - to throw myself into its arms.

Looking at the long strings of green wind chimes swaying in the wind among the green leaves, a new name popped out of my mouth - wind chimes. Tree. Later, even when I was proctoring exams in the classroom, I would always look past the doors and windows toward it.

Familiar places never lack scenery.

No matter how rich your imagination is, you may not be able to imagine how a "plush ball" turns around beautifully and turns into a "long pod". The practice of the lunar calendar course makes me feel more and more that nature is really an amazing magician.

There is a poem by Yang Wanli: Who knows that flowers are not red for a hundred days, and crape myrtle blooms for half a year? Actually, I didn’t notice when exactly the crape myrtle flowers bloomed. But in this midsummer, on the roadside, by the lake or in the green belt of the community, in the distance, the way it is surrounded by clouds of flowers, whether pink, purple, or white, blooming by itself, must be its most charming appearance.

In the green belt of the community, at some point, small light yellow flowers bloomed, which looked very delicate. The name is very common - Huang Huacheng.

The prosperity has disappeared and returned to simplicity. During the miscanthus planting season, the sun gives the miscanthus a radiant appearance. At the summer solstice, it gave itself a new mission - it was taken home by the villagers and made into a handful of brooms to fulfill its new responsibilities. It doesn't matter how you live, what's important is living how you like.

In midsummer, the heat is unbearable. Our vegetable garden is neglected, overgrown with weeds, and almost barren. This really corresponds to the proverb - "If you don't remove the weeds at the summer solstice, it is like raising a poisonous snake to bite you." "

Looking at this lonely bitter melon hanging on the branch, I remembered that I used to eat this red bitter melon as a snack when I was a child! The red bitter melon is gently broken into two halves, revealing the bright red flesh of the bitter melon. The soft bitter melon seeds wrapped in red flesh are sweet in the mouth. The snacks we had when we were little are really weird compared to today’s kids.

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The Dragon Boat Festival ushered in on the fourth day after the summer solstice. Many children still completed two pleasing notes during this solar term. Just in time to review for the exam, the sky course under the lunar calendar is more like a breeze, blowing away the tension and boredom of hard work in review life.

The green trees are dense and the summer is long. Every work is a collection of the beautiful moments of summer——

This summer solstice, Jingyuan is accompanied by all the beauty. Not only did I witness the entire process of an annular solar eclipse, I also gained a different kind of fun from catching cicadas.

On the summer solstice, Yihan played the shadow stepping game, watched the eclipse, ate summer solstice noodles, and learned a new skill from her aunt - making rice dumplings. I like the color combination of Yihan's notes very much. The warm taste of midsummer comes to my face.

Please don’t blame the cicada for making such a loud noise, because it really doesn’t want to be silent! Such an exciting, beautiful, and happy cry! ——Is it really just the life of the cicada that Haotian is singing passionately?

Every solar term note written by Chen You reveals his love and persistence for nature. While walking, he always makes unique discoveries of his own. How valuable this is!

It was the time when the rice dumplings were fragrant again. From collecting rice dumpling leaves and orchid grass to wrapping, Xinyi experienced the whole process with her mother, which was full of experience and harvest.

Xin Yi used three works to describe the traditional custom of making rice dumplings with pictures and texts. In the process of collecting raw materials, Xinyi also learned to distinguish between glutinous rice and rice used for cooking.

This semester’s discontinuous texts are not for nothing. Look, the process of making rice dumplings presented by Sijia using a flow chart is simple and easy to understand, right?

The solar terms course made Manyi’s heart become delicate and soft. I used to eat cicadas a lot when I was a kid, but now I feel a little reluctant to give them up. Even the sound of cicadas sounds nice.

The shining spirit is shown in the details. Look at the cute rice dumpling brothers and the small and unique sachet. They are really loved by everyone (?°з°)-

Chen Yu used his knowledge notes to tell us about the customs of the summer solstice.

The word "Lotus Scenery" in the title is even more beautiful than the words.

After the meat dumplings are steamed, cut off the thin threads and tear open its outer covering, the Ruo leaves, and you will smell an aroma. ——Through Yi Cen’s words, I am drooling.

Classmate Yingyang has taken the first step in taking notes on solar terms, which is a gratifying progress.

Even if you present your findings in the most concise way, it is still a great creation.

Zhou Xin can learn to put "I" in. With the experience of "I", the writing will naturally be wonderful.

If you can be a thoughtful person like Chen You in life, you won’t have to worry about running out of writing materials!

The setting sun, the aunt’s sunflower seeds, the mockingbird—all are wonderful encounters in Jinhan’s writing.

Uncle’s roasted cicadas

Wu Yuxiang

It’s the summer solstice again, and the cicadas emerged from the soil and started singing a chorus.

? "Cicada~Cicada~" Whenever I hear the cry of cicadas, I will think of my uncle's roasted cicadas.

? That summer, the sun was scorching the earth, and groups of cicadas were on the trees, shouting "Cicada~Cicada~", which made my heart itch.

? "Uncle," I couldn't hold it in any longer, jumped up from the bed, went straight to my uncle's room, hugged him and shouted, "let's go catch the cicada, okay?"< /p>

? "Okay!" Uncle stood up from the computer desk, turned off the computer, and followed me to the garage downstairs, ready to go.

Let’s go! My uncle wore a big straw hat and carried a simple net made of plastic bags tied to a long bamboo pole. I held a large cardboard box in my hand and followed my uncle excitedly and cautiously.

I came to a big tree. This big tree is so tall. No matter how I stand on tiptoe, I can't reach the branches. Among the dense leaves, the sound of "know-know-" came out.

"That's it!" said the uncle, then he held the net high and started to catch cicadas.

? I saw him swinging the net here and there leisurely, just like a painter painting on paper. As for me, I just have to hold the box of cicadas in one hand and look at it quietly. Just listen to the sound of "pop", a cicada enters the net, "pop!" "pop!" "pop!" With crisp sounds, our box is gradually filled, and my uncle and I feel like we have won. The general returned home with a full load.

After returning home, we started to clean the cicadas. Although they were so big, there was only a little bit of meat, but we skewered them and sprinkled them with some salt to roast them, and then sprinkled them with cumin and chili. Noodles, not to mention how fragrant they are.

The summer solstice is here again, and the cicadas have begun to sing again. I really want to catch cicadas with my uncle again.

When I write these words, it is already the last day of the summer solstice, and the children have just finished their final exams. Looking up, the sun is just right. Every day illuminated by the sun has our story. It is beautiful enough to record it quietly like this.