Today, summer solstice

Author:Changjiang Daily Time:2022.06.21

Today we usher in the summer solstice solar term. This is the longest day of the northern hemisphere in the year. The summer solstice "to", the ancient books have clouds: "The north to the north, the sun is long, the sun shadow is short, so the summer solstice is said.

The summer solstice is the earliest and the oldest solar terms. According to the currently known archeological discovery and literature records, in the late Yin and Shang dynasties, the ancients had been able to determine the summer solstice and winter solstice. The summer solstice also has the dual identities of "solar terms" and "festivals". The first name of the "Dragon Boat Festival" can be traced back to the "Summer Solstice" during the summer and Shang and Zhou dynasties.

At present, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River are in the rainy season. The summer solstice brings humidity and sultry, giving people a more lively and eager experience.

Wait for the antlers.

The old corner of the Bucks fell off, and then "velvet antler" grew.

Two Tiáo started, "蜩" is cicada.

The larvae of the cicada have drilled out of the ground, feathered into insects, and began to ask for puppets.

Waiting for Banxia Sheng.

Pinellia's leaves and inflorescences pulled out the ground together.

Summer is the performance season of cicadas. Their concerts are accompanied by the scorching sun, and they continue until the end of summer. "When the raccoon slaves stole the book a few times, when he heard it," Chang Qing described in the poem "Summer Solstice" in the poem of "Summer Solstice" was this noisy and lively "summer solstice".

However, different types of cicadas have different time to live on the stage. Right now, the cicada is more screaming. Its head is the largest in the cicada, the whole body is dark and bright, and the sound it makes is much high.

Entering summer, red cicada and grass cicadas usually choose shrubs or grass as the performance stage. Their performances are the most beautiful. The red cicada is wearing an orange -red mask, and the black velvet feathers are covered on a dark red skirt. The color of the black and red match is particularly eye -catching. Grass cicada looks like a green emerald.

What can perform is only male cicadas, and the female cicada's abdomen does not have a pronunciation organ. Cicada's music is mainly used to ask for puppets, and the males attract female to ending through the sound. Different types of cicadas will make different frequencies sounds, and the cicada's music can only be understood by the same individual.

Pinellia is a well -known Chinese medicinal material, which has the effects of coughing and expectorant. As a perennial herb, we can see it only in summer in the year.

Banxia's stems are spherical underground stems. Every summer solstice, leaves and inflorescences draw the ground together, and they bloom and bear results in the following two months. After the fruit matures, the ground part of Banxia withering, dormant under the form of the ball stems, waiting for the next summer solstice.

The ancient people's observation of the summer solstice shows the natural dialectical laws of the anode yin, profitable, yin and yang, and the beginning of the week.

Lotus. Hu Xiaoping Photo

In the rivers and cities with rich resources in rivers and lakes and wetlands, there are countless beautiful scenery in the lotus ponds, and the first ceremony of the beautiful summer of Wuhan people has opened.

There are children who can sit on it in Wuhan Botanical Garden. There are thousands of "Thousands Lotus" with petals in the East Lake Mushan Lotus Garden. They are all purple lotus ... "Green is still with powder, and the round lotus begins to scatter". The poem "Summer Solstice Summer North Pool" of Wei Yingwu in the Tang Dynasty depicts the cool artistic conception brought by bamboo and lotus.

There is a saying of "winter solstice dumplings in the summer solstice". This custom contains the ancient people's thinking about the four o'clock of heaven and earth: dumplings are bread in the inside, and the way of "winter collection"; The meaning of being divergent.

Shortly after the summer solstice harvesting new wheat, eating noodles has become a new adoption of people's closeness to nature, and it is even a time -time reward for the tip of the tongue after hard work.

Xia is big, to extremely. The yang is extremely prosperous, and everything is extremely rich.

The seventh batch of academic experience in the academic experience of old traditional Chinese medicine experts, inheritance the inheritance teacher, and professor of kidney disease at Hubei Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Time. "When the yin and yang alternate, it is like running the baton. The day, night, night, and yang not only run well, but also hand over each other."