The ancient "Xia Meng" refers to which month of the lunar calendar?

In ancient times, Xia Meng referred to the fourth month of the lunar calendar.

Xia Meng, also known as early summer, refers to the fourth month of the lunar calendar. There are four seasons in the lunar calendar, including Meng, Zhong and Ji. The three months of the lunar summer are April, May and June.

They are called Xia Meng, Midsummer and Late Summer Moon respectively. The first month of summer, that is, April, is Xia Meng, which is represented by four in the twelve earthly branches. This month is the lunar calendar.

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During my stay in Xia Meng, everything was wonderful. This sentence comes from the book Lotus in Eight Seasons in the Ming Dynasty. On the day of Xia Meng, heaven and earth began to cross, and everything was beautiful. At this time, the summer harvest crops entered the late growth stage, the winter wheat blossomed, the rape was close to maturity, and the summer harvest crops were basically a foregone conclusion that year.

Therefore, there is a saying in agricultural proverbs that "long summer sees summer", so ancient China attached great importance to the solar terms of long summer. According to records, during the Zhou Dynasty, on the long summer day, the emperor personally led hundreds of civil and military officials to the suburbs to welcome the summer, and instructed Stuart and other officials to go to various places to encourage farmers to work hard.

Long summer falls on May 5th or 6th every year. This season was established at the end of the Warring States period. At this time, it refers to the long summer in the southeast and Victoria. Everything has grown to this day, hence the name Long Summer.

Astronomically, Chang Xia said that bidding farewell to spring is the beginning of summer. When the temperature rises obviously, the summer heat comes, thunderstorms increase and crops enter the peak season, people are used to taking long summer as an important solar term.

In ancient China, the long summer was divided into three stages: the first stage was cicada singing, the second stage was earthworm, and the third stage was melon. It is said that in this solar term, crickets can be heard in the field first, then earthworms can be seen digging through the soil, and then the vines of melon begin to climb rapidly, which is a phenological scene in early summer.

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