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"Lixia" means that the weather is warming up and the temperature is rising, so the hot summer is coming, and there is more rain.

The Lixia Festival, established in the late Warring States period (239 BC), heralds the change of seasons and marks the beginning of the summer season according to the ancient lunar calendar.

The "Monthly Seventy-Two Waitings" says, "Li, build the beginning also, summer, false also, things to this time are false big also." Here the "false", that is, "big" means that the plants sown in the spring have already grown upright. Yiwei" has the summer "electricity see" said. But in the south, even in the late first thunder in northwest China, perennial thunderstorms also began in April, in the middle of the month, "electricity" need not wait until the summer.

"Su Wen - four gas adjustment of God's theory" said: "summer March, this is called Fanxiu; heaven and earth gas exchange, everything is real". Summer March refers to the period from the beginning of summer to the beginning of autumn, including six seasons: the beginning of summer, the small full, the mango seed, the summer solstice, the small summer, the summer heat.

Lixia, one of China's twenty-four solar terms, May 5 or May 6 every year, the sun reaches 45° of the yellow meridian for the "Lixia" solar term, China since ancient times used to Lixia as the beginning of the summer days.

The old custom of the summer and the traditional folk festival, called the "summer festival." In ancient times, the Son of Heaven led all the officials to welcome the summer in the southern suburb, and held the ceremony of sacrificing to Emperor Yan Di and Zhu Rong. In the Ming Dynasty, the folk began to taste the new custom, the Qing Dynasty, there are more sacrifices to the gods, taste the new, feed the festival, weighing people, cooking new tea and other customs.

Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other areas retained to eat Lixia eggs, healthy feet bamboo shoots, five tiger Dan, three and a half and so on "to eat complementary food" dietary customs; Xuanwei area in Yunnan Province, the door plug soap pods branch, safflower to press the Chong, around the foot of the gray wall in order to avoid the snake of the custom. Some ethnic minorities also have the custom of summer festival. Folk custom on summer day must eat eggs, and eat seven tea, eat plums, eat wheat beans porridge, etc., it is said to have a wonderful way to get rid of the disease.

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