The characteristic of summer solar terms is that the weather has just begun to get hot, but it is not the hottest time yet. At this time of summer, it is usually hot and rainy, and the air is filled with water vapor. This season is also a good time for everything to grow wildly. This kind of weather is suitable for most parts of our country.

In the folk, there is a habit of eating fresh rice after the light summer festival, that is, farmers first grind the rice planted in the field into rice, cook it, and sacrifice it to their ancestors and supply it to the God of Grains. After that, everyone began to drink newly brewed wine and eat fresh rice.

Is there food among the people? Monopterus albus, honey lotus root, mung bean sprouts? Custom, because at this time, the weather will enter the dog days, and when the dog days are the hottest, you should be prepared for heatstroke prevention. The weather is hot, people are prone to sweat, and their own consumption is also relatively large, so eating these foods can enhance physical strength, relieve human dryness and heat, and prevent heatstroke.

What folk proverbs are there? Can you plant buckwheat first and then radish? ,? Fu Tou jiaozi, two negative strips, Sanfu pancakes with eggs? . It is a traditional custom to eat jiaozi's head first. At this time, people lose their appetite and tend to be thinner than usual, which is what we often call bitter summer. In the traditional customs of China, jiaozi is a food to stimulate appetite.

In summer, people also have the custom of drying pictures, calligraphy and clothes. The sunshine time is the longest before and after the summer heat, so every household will choose it in unison? Sunbathing? Hang clothes outside in the sun, damp, damp, moldy and moth-eaten.

Wu Cheng, a scholar in Yuan Dynasty, once divided the 24 solar terms in a year into? Seventy-two waiting? Each solar term is divided into three periods. Summer heat phase iii: Waiting for the warm wind to come; Second, wait for crickets to live in space; Three waiting eagles began to collect birds. ?

It means that there is no cool wind on the earth in summer, and there is a heat wave in the wind; Because of the heat, cricket left the venue and ran to the corner of the yard to escape the heat; The eagle moves in the cool sky because the ground temperature is too high. It vividly shows the scene of the light summer season.