The summer solar term means that the weather has entered the period of "steaming up", and people seem to be detained in a sultry steamer, but there are exceptions in Jiangnan area. In the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, plum blossoms usually appear around the light summer, and then enter the rainy season in midsummer, but there may also be "yellow plum" weather. When the rainy season passed, it entered the rainy day.
The custom of summer heat
In the south, people also have the custom of "tasting the new" in the summer. During the light summer season, early rice in the south matures one after another. After the farmers grind the newly cut rice, they make a good meal to worship their ancestors and the gods of the five grains. Family members and neighbors also taste new rice and drink new wine together, which is called "tasting the new".
Summer is also a good time to dry clothes and things. The summer heat is near the sixth day of the sixth lunar month. Legend has it that June 6th is the day when the Dragon King basks in scales, and there is also the custom of sun drying books, scrolls and clothes here, which is called "sun drying" or "sun drying".
People take advantage of the sunshine in the dog days to take their calligraphy, paintings and books in the courtyard to dry, to get rid of mildew and bookworms. Temples around the country also have the custom of drying scriptures. Legend has it that when Tang Priest came back from the Western Heaven, he accidentally dropped the scriptures into the river and soaked them, which was dried on this day. So the temple took the sixth day of the sixth lunar month as the "sun-drying day".
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