Is the summer solstice the beginning of summer? What is the difference between the Summer Solstice and the Beginning of Summer?

Is the summer solstice the beginning of summer? What is the difference between the Summer Solstice and the Beginning of Summer?
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Is the summer solstice the beginning of summer? What is the difference between the Summer Solstice and the Beginning of Summer?

No, the Summer Solstice and the Beginning of Summer are different. The Summer Solstice is not the Beginning of Summer, and similarly, the Beginning of Summer is not the Summer Solstice.
Therefore, there is a certain difference between the Beginning of Summer and the Summer Solstice.
The location of the solar terms is different
Beginning of Summer: Beginning of Summer is the seventh solar term in the twenty-four solar terms and the first solar term in summer.
Summer Solstice: Summer Solstice is the tenth solar term in the twenty-four solar terms and the fourth solar term in summer.
The difference in time
Beginning of Summer: usually falls on May 5 or 6 of the Gregorian calendar. Summer Solstice: usually falls on June 21 or 22 of the Gregorian calendar.
Different in meaning
Beginning of Summer: Beginning of Summer heralds the change of seasons and marks the official start of midsummer.
Summer solstice: the heat is coming, which means the hot summer is coming.
Geographical differences
Beginning of Summer: When the sun reaches 45 degrees of ecliptic longitude Summer Solstice: When the sun reaches 90 degrees of ecliptic longitude
The differences in the three phases
Beginning of Summer: The first sign is crickets chirping, the second sign is earthworms coming out, the third sign is melons growing. Summer Solstice: The first sign is that deer antlers fall off, the second sign is that cicadas start to sing, and the third sign is that pinellia grows.
Differences in customs
Beginning of Summer: Beginning of Summer is the determination of the time of the season, so there are no special customs. Summer Solstice: Folk customs include offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, spending the summer trying to get out of the dog days, eating noodles, and eating rice dumplings.
Because the Beginning of Summer and the Summer Solstice are two solar terms, there is no other similarity between the two weeks except that they are both summer solar terms among the twenty-four solar terms.

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