The beauty of the festival

Xinhua News Agency, Nanjing, July 23 (Reporters Qiu Bingqing, Wang Xun) We ushered in the heat of the summer on July 23. As the peak of the "cooking mode" in summer, how hot is the hot summer soil? What impact does hotness have on crops? Meteorological and agricultural experts answered you.

"One waiting for the grass is a fluorescence, the two wait, the earth moisturizes the heat, and the three waiting for heavy rain." Jiang Xiaodong, an associate professor of the School of Applied Meteorological of Nanjing University of Information Engineering, said that the ancient Chinese divided the summer heat into three, and the meteorum was 5 days. The three waiting of the summer actually summarized the characteristics of this solar terms, hot, and rainy. At the first time, the humid and warm fireflies are frequent. At the second time, the weather is hot and hot, and the soil is humid. The third time is often thunderstorm.

"Before and after the middle of the Summer Summer, it is the period when the most sunlight and the highest temperature in the year, and the high temperature weather of more than 35 degrees Celsius may occur in many places across the country. The influence is that there are many sunny days in the eastern part of my country. In addition, due to the summer wind, my country's summer air humidity is large, the heat absorbs a lot, and the human body sensation temperature is higher. In the rainy season in the rainy season, Huanghuai, North China, Northeast China and other places entered the main flood season, and there were many heavy rainy weather.

The hot summer heat is the fastest season of crops. The farmer's saying "the rice laughed in the field, and the man was hot in the house" said the scene at this time. Qiao Junqing, an associate researcher at the Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said that the rice in a single season of rice area thrives in the high temperature of the summer. At this time, the double -season rice area has reached the "double grab" season of early rice harvesting and the late rice grabbing, and the field is busy.

"Due to the hot weather, some areas have the custom of eating lotus seed soup in the hot summer solar terms, and some areas like to drink old duck soup in the summer of the summer as the best product of the summer." Qiao Junqing said. (Poster production: Xu Zhan)

[Editor in charge: Wang Yan]

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