The summer heat is one of the 24 solar terms of the lunar calendar, and the sun is located at120. "twenty-four solar term" said: "The summer heat is in the middle of June. Summer heat, heat, is divided into size, small at the beginning of the month, big in the middle of the month, and now it is hot in Judah. " Its climatic characteristics are: "Dou refers to C as a great summer heat, and the weather in Sri Lanka is very fierce than a small summer heat, so it is called a great summer heat." The summer solar term is the hottest period of the year.
During the summer solar term, people have the custom of drinking tea. Fucha, as its name implies, is the tea that people drink in dog days. This kind of tea boiled by more than ten kinds of Chinese herbal medicines, such as honeysuckle, selfheal and licorice, has the function of cooling and dispelling summer heat. Many places in Guangdong have the custom of "eating fairy grass" in the summer. There is a folk saying: "Eat fairy grass in the summer of June, live like a fairy and never get old."
There is a custom of eating litchi in Putian area to spend the summer heat. In southern Shandong, there is a custom of "drinking summer sheep" (that is, drinking mutton soup) on the day of the great summer. In Zaozhuang City, many citizens go to the local mutton soup kitchen to "drink summer sheep" on the hot summer day. Taiwan Province folk proverb "Eat pineapple in summer" says that pineapple is the best in this season.