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The handwritten newspaper for the Great Summer Festival is simple and beautiful

Great Heat is the twelfth solar term among the twenty-four solar terms and the last solar term in summer. At the end of the fighting period, the sun's yellow longitude is 120°, which is the intersection between July 22nd and 24th in the Gregorian calendar. "Shu" means hot, and "Great Heat" means extremely hot. The Great Heat is hotter than the Little Heat. It is the solar term with the strongest sunshine and the hottest heat in the year. The "humidity and heat" reach their peak at this time. The climate characteristics of the Great Heat: high temperatures, thunderstorms, and frequent typhoons.

The Great Heat solar term coincides with the "middle volts" in the "dog days" and is the hottest period of the year. During the summer season, the sun is strong, the temperature is high, the humidity is high, and the rain is high. Although the heat and humidity are unbearable, it is very conducive to the growth of crops, and crops grow fastest during this period. ?

Since ancient times, people have had the custom of drinking herbal tea (Fucha) in the dog days of summer; Fucha, as the name suggests, is a tea drunk in the dog days of summer. This kind of tea made from Chinese herbal medicine has the effect of cooling and dispelling summer heat. . In addition, there are also customs such as burning incense and drying ginger. "Great Heat" is the hottest and humid season of the year. The focus of health care during this season is "heatstroke prevention" and "dampness removal."

Great Heat is the twelfth solar term among the twenty-four solar terms. At that time, the weather was much more severe than the Little Heat, so it was called the Great Heat. "Shu" means hot, and "Great Heat" means extremely hot. "Book of Yizhou" says: "The soil is moist and the weather is hot and humid. On the fifth day, there will be heavy rains." It also says: "The heavy rains will not fall on time, and the country will be unfavorable." Great Heat is the time of the year when the sun is the strongest, the temperature is the highest, and thunderstorms are rampant. The Great Heat season is characterized by scorching heat, frequent thunderstorms, and abundant rainfall. It is a time when all things grow wildly. "The Collection of Seventy-Two Hours of the Moon Order" says: "Summer means heat, and heat is divided into large and small. The first month is small, the middle month is large, and now the heat is still great." "Tongwei·Xiao Jingyuan" "Shenqi" says: "Fifteen days after the minor summer heat, it is not the major summer heat. In the middle of June, the small and large ones will be divided into large and small during the extreme heat. The first and last are small, and the later ones are big."

Farmer Proverbs

The heat of summer cannot penetrate, and the heat comes after autumn.

There is no heat in the summer, and no grains.

When the summer is hot, the fields are resting; when the summer is cool, the ponds are full of water.

The sun disappears during the mild summer heat, but the stones are exposed during the severe summer heat.

Minor summer and major heat are not hot, minor cold and major cold are not cold.

There is no scorching heat in the summer, and there are many grains but no crops.

In the great heat, the sky is cloudy and gold is everywhere.

It is a hot summer with heavy rain and frost in a hundred days. During severe heat and mild heat, mice drowned.

The great summer brings the autumn breeze, and the heat after autumn is crazy.

Eat millet during the minor summer heat and rice during the major summer heat.

I am afraid of the east wind during the minor summer heat and the red clouds during the severe summer heat.

In the mild summer and severe heat, Youmi doesn’t want to go home and cook.

Poetry

"Late Summer" (Southern Dynasties) Xu Mian

In the summer scene, I am tired of the house, so I sit down and play with the flowers.

The lotus shadow is slanting towards the green, and the lotus shadow is divided into red.

To avoid the heat at this time, the clear bottle is not empty.

"Bai Juyi" (Tang Dynasty) Bai Juyi

Why do you want to kill the heat and live in a courtyard?

There is nothing growing in front of me, but there is a breeze under the window.

The heat dissipates from the calm mind, and the coolness creates an empty room.