What time is the Beginning of Heat on the Beginning of Heat Day in 2021? What are the folk customs on the Beginning of Heat?

What time is the Beginning of Heat on the Beginning of Heat Day in 2021? What are the folk customs on the Beginning of Heat?
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What time is the Beginning of Heat on the Beginning of Heat Day in 2021?

Chushu, the fourteenth solar term of the twenty-four solar terms, falls on August 22-24 of the Gregorian calendar every year. The Big Dipper points to Wu (southwest); the sun's ecliptic longitude reaches 150°.
The date of the beginning of summer in 2021 is July 16, 2021 in the lunar calendar ; August 23, 2021, Monday, 05:34:48 in the Gregorian calendar

What are the folk customs on the Beginning of Heat?

1. Fishing Festival
After the Beginning of Heat comes the fishery harvest period. Various activities are often held in China's coastal areas during this solar term to send off fishermen and look forward to a good harvest.
2. Worship the God of Land
The solar term of Chushu coincides with the harvest time of autumn crops, so there will be many celebrations for the harvest, mainly holding various ceremonies to worship ancestors and thank the God of Land.
3. Eat duck and get a free duck
The ancients believed that ducks in mid-July of the lunar calendar were the fattest and most nutritious, so it was popular to eat ducks during the Beginning of Heat. In Beijing, old Beijingers will buy the End of Heat Lily Duck; while in Jiangsu, a bowl of duck dish is served to neighbors, as the saying goes, "Giving duck during the End of Heat keeps every household healthy."
4. Worshiping ancestors and welcoming autumn
The solar term of Chushu usually falls in the seventh month of the lunar calendar, so the folk customs before and after Chushu are mostly related to ancestor worship and welcoming autumn. For example, there will be folk activities to celebrate the Zhongyuan Festival. The Zhongyuan Festival is commonly known as "the Mid-July Festival" or "Zhongyuan Festival". It was originally a festival to commemorate the autumn harvest and worship ancestors. Later, under the influence of Taoism and Buddhism, there were also activities of giving away lanterns for salvation. =

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