This summer solstice, remember to "avoid summer"!

The summer solstice is the 10th solar terms of twenty -four solar terms. Dou refers to noon; the sun yellow meridian 90 °; the festival on June 21-22 on June 21st. The summer solstice is the turning point in the north. After the summer solstice, the direct sunlight began to move from the north (23 ° 26 'north latitude) to the south. On the summer solstice, the sun is directly reached in the north. At this time, the day time in the northern hemisphere reaches the longest throughout the year, and the higher the latitude, the longer the day. For the North Return and north of it, the summer solstice is also the highest height of noon in the year.

Summer solstice, in ancient times, also known as "summer festival" and "summer solstice". The ancients said: "The long, the shadow is short, the permanent, the extremely, so the sun and the summer solstice."

The summer solstice is both one of the twenty -four solar terms, but also a festival in the "Four o'clock" of the folks in ancient times. Since ancient times, it has worshiped the ancestors worshiping the ancestors in the summer solstice. "Heaven and earth, the foundation of life; the ancestor, the foundation of the class." Heaven and earth are the foundation of life, the ancestors are the foundation of human beings, and ancestors are also a custom of inheriting filial piety.

There are different dietary customs in the summer solstice in different regions of China. For example, in Shaanxi in the northwest, the summer solstice can be eaten, and chrysanthemums are used as ash to prevent wheat from suffering from insects. In the south, the scale of the scale on this day is thin and thin. The farmhouse rolled noodles for pancakes, cooked, and chipped with vegetables, pods, tofu and bacon. In Beijing's "Winter Solutions Dumplings Summer Solstice". According to the customs of old Beijing, you can get lettuce and cold noodles from the summer solstice from the summer solstice, because at this time, the climate is hot, and eating cold things can lower the fire and appetite, and will not damage health due to cold. Summer solstice is here, remember to "avoid summer".

Edit: Pierre

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