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What does midsummer mean?

Midsummer, Chinese vocabulary. Pinyin: shèng xià, refers to the hottest time in summer.

Midsummer, a seasonal term, is actually midsummer. In ancient times, they were divided into Meng, Zhong and Ji. The difference is one of those three months, which is the hottest time in summer. This is also the time when many fruits and vegetables are ripe. In midsummer, the weather is hot, and the elderly and children are prone to heatstroke. Therefore, you should eat scientifically in your daily life to cool down reasonably and maintain good health.

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Near antonyms:

1. Midwinter: In the "March 9th", because the ground receives less solar heat, the heat dissipation at night is greater than during the day. At this time, the heat stored in the ground has been exhausted. As the heat cannot make ends meet, the ground temperature gradually drops and the weather becomes colder and colder. If there is cold air at this time, the weather will become severely cold. Therefore, the weather in "March 9th" is the coldest. In the middle of winter, the weather is full of ice and the snow is several feet deep.

2. Winter refers to the cold winter.

Example: A reserved heart is like a wintersweet that blooms in the cold winter. If you don’t pay attention, you will be filled with sadness again.

3. Extreme heat refers to the extremely hot summer weather (the three-volt solar term). High summer; hot day.

Example sentence: Bing Xin's "Miscellaneous Notes from the Mountains": "Under the scorching summer eaves, on the bed as hot as a steam oven, listening to the monotonous and boring, deafening sound of ironware, continuous, my mind completely followed He was jolted.