The beginning of the summer represents the symbolism: farewell to spring, the beginning of summer.
Lixia is the seventh of the twenty-four solar terms in the lunar calendar, the first solar term of summer, indicating the official start of the summer season, the sun reaches 45 degrees of the yellow longitude for the summer solar term. When the sun reaches 45 degrees of the yellow meridian, it is the first summer festival. The Doo points to the southeast, and the dimension is the beginning of summer, and everything grows up by this time.
The "Monthly Rules and Seventy-two Waiting Periods": "Lixia, April Festival. The word "Lixia" can be found in spring. Summer, also false. Things to this time are false large also." In astronomy, the beginning of summer is the beginning of summer, which means that we are about to say goodbye to spring. It is customary to treat the beginning of summer as an important festival in which the temperature rises significantly, the summer heat is approaching, thunderstorms increase, and crops enter the peak season of growth.
The festival of Lixia was established at the end of the Warring States period (239 B.C.), heralding the change of seasons and marking the beginning of summer for the four seasons of the year.
In fact, according to climatological standards, the average daily temperature rises steadily above 22 ℃ for the beginning of summer, "summer" before and after, only Fuzhou to the south of the South Ridge line south of the region is the real "green trees and shade of the summer long, the building reflections into the pond! "of summer, and the northeast and northwest of some areas at this time has just entered the spring, the average temperature in most parts of the country in the 18 - 20 ℃ up and down, it is" a hundred red and purple fight Fangfei "of the mid-spring and late spring season. Into the month of May, many places acacia flowers are also blooming. In the summer, everything is in full bloom.
Lixia ancient explanation
Lixia, April Festival. The word "Li" is explained in the spring. Summer, also false. Things to this time are false big also.
Gryllotalpa. Gryllotalpa, a small insect, born in the cave soil, good night out, today's people called the earth dog is also; a mole crickets, a stone rat, a _ sound dendrobium, different dialects around the different. The huainanzi said: mole cricket song, qiu _ out, yin gas began and two things should be. Xia Xiaozheng": March _ is also sounding. And there are five can, can not become a skill: can not fly over the house; edge can not be poor wood; swim can not cross the valley; cave can not cover the body; walk can not be first. Therefore, "Shuowen" said _ for the five skills of the rat. Ancient and modern note" and to mole cricket name _, the rat can be known. Bei Ya" "Materia Medica" are thought to be stink bugs, Lu Deming, Zheng Kangcheng thought frogs, are not.
Earthworms. Earthworms that is also a curved dragon _, "Calendar" said: Yin and bent, multiplied by the sun and stretched to see also.
Wang Gua Sheng.
Tu Jing" cloud: Wang Gua everywhere, born in the plains, fields and walls, leaves like Juniperus communis, Wu yao, round, no Ya lack, hairs such as thorns, sprawling, yellow flowers in May, flowers under the son such as a projectile, born of green ripe red, the root of Pueraria Mirifica, fine and more grits, and the name of the earth melon, a drop of crows melon, used in the medicine today also. Rites of passage" Zheng Yuan note: that is, castor seed. The Materia Medica as sarsaparilla, Tao Yinju to identify its fallacy, said sarsaparilla has its own article, not knowing that Wang Gua also has its own article, the Confucian then, such as not checking the book and the abuse of words, laughable.
Other historical materials
"Yi Zhou Shu - news solution" cloud: "the day of summer, mole cricket song. On the fifth day, earthworms came out. Another five days, the king melon is born." That is to say, in this solar term, you can first hear the chirping sound (one says it is the sound of frogs), then you can see the earthworms digging in the earth, and then the vines of the king's gourd begin to climb and grow rapidly, which describes the physical and meteorological scenery at the beginning of the Meng Xia period.
Summer to welcome the summer customs
China's agricultural country, spring rice-planting is the beginning of the Wojijia, to the summer, weeding, plowing, but also an important agricultural activities, or else it is difficult to have a good harvest in the fall and winter, so the dynasties attach great importance to the summer of this festival. In ancient times, the emperor welcomed the summer in the southern suburbs, was originally a kind of sacrifice; "han dynasty emperor yongping two years, is the year, the beginning of the welcome gas in the five suburbs." (See Tong Jian) "Welcome summer in the southern suburbs, sacrificing the Red Emperor Zhu Rong, the car clothes are all red, the song is not yet clear, dance as if welcoming spring." (See "Continuation of the Book of Han")
Folk in the summer, in order to sacrifice to the gods to enjoy the first, tasting new feed festival, as well as weighing people, cooking tea and other activities. Tasting the new is to taste the freshness of the season, such as the ears of wheat harvested in summer, golden cauliflower, cherries, plums, green plums and so on. The gods and ancestors are invited to enjoy them first, and then family, friends and neighbors give them to each other.
Cooking new tea in the summer is a custom since the Song and Yuan dynasties, which is actually a folk tea ceremony. Families choose good tea, auxiliary materials, draw water, rising furnace cooking, tea also mixed with jasmine, cinnamon core, rose, dingtan, Su apricot, etc., with fine fruit, and neighbors to give each other, each other to taste. Literati and writers to organize "tea party", tea and fruit, poetry, in order to celebrate. (According to "Danqing Moyun", edited by Hong Liang, and "Xuangui Words", etc.).
Lixia called people, this custom is sometimes emerging in the south, is said to have originated in the three kingdoms of Shu. After Liu Bei's death, Zhuge Liang sent Ah Dou to Zhao Zi Long to Jiangdong and asked Liu Bei's stepmother, Mrs. Sun, to bring him up. It was the first day of summer, Mrs. Sun weighed Adou in front of Zhao Zilong and took care of him, and then weighed him again in the first summer of the next year to see how much he had gained in weight. The custom of weighing people at the beginning of summer has been passed down since then. Of course, the origin of the summer weighing, there are other sayings.