Lixia is the seventh of the twenty-four solar terms in the lunar calendar, the first solar term of summer, indicating the official beginning of the summer season, when the sun reaches 45 degrees of the yellow meridian for the summer solar term. Doo points to the southeast, the dimension of the summer, everything grows up to this point, so the name of the summer also.

The summer solstice is one of the twenty-four solar terms, which falls on June 20, 21, or 22 of the Gregorian calendar. Summer solstice day, the sun runs to 90 degrees of yellow longitude (the summer solstice, currently in the constellation Gemini), the sun directly above the ground to reach the northernmost point of the year, almost directly to the Tropic of Cancer, at this time, the northern hemisphere around the daytime reaches the longest time of the year.

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Relationship of the Rising Summer and Summer Solstice to Medicine

"Su Wen - Four Airs and Four Tones of the Divine Grand Theory" said, "Summer in March, this is called the tombs of the show; heaven and earth air exchanges, everything is gorgeous! ". Summer March refers to the period from the beginning of summer to the beginning of autumn, including the six solar terms of the beginning of summer, Xiaoman, Mangzao, summer solstice, Xiaoshu and Daoshu.

Rising summer, small full in the lunar calendar around April, called Meng Xia (the beginning of summer), the weather is getting hot, plants flourish, this season is conducive to the physiological activities of the heart, people in the intersection with the festival so should be smooth. Therefore, in the whole summer health care should pay attention to the heart of the special care.

"Medical sources and streams" said: "The heart is the Lord of the body, the organs and all organs are at the command of the heart, so the monarch. The heart hides God, so for the use of God." In Chinese medicine literature, the heart is interpreted as the heart of flesh and blood and the heart of God. The heart of flesh and blood refers to the substantial heart; the heart of divinity refers to the function of receiving and reflecting things from the outside world and carrying out activities such as consciousness, thinking, and emotions.

The "Introduction to Medicine" says: "The heart of flesh and blood is shaped like an unbloomed lotus flower, living under the lungs on the liver is also. The heart of God ...... dominates all things, the virtual spirit is not obscured is also."

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