What do people do during the Lesser Heat? What are the climate characteristics?

What do people do during the Lesser Heat? What are the climate characteristics?
Lesser Heat is the beginning of the dog days of summer, but it has not yet reached the hottest time of summer. So what should people do during Lesser Heat? Lychee is the representative fruit of the sixth month of the lunar calendar. It matures and is harvested in this month, so it is also known as the Lychee Month. If you want to know more about the sixth month of the lunar calendar, please visit Shui Mo Internet Cafe.

What do people do during the Lesser Heat?

1. Eat new food
In the past, people in southern my country had the custom of "eating new food" during the Lesser Heat. "Eating new food" meant grinding newly harvested rice and wheat into powder, making various kinds of cakes and noodles, and sharing them with neighbors to express their wishes for a good harvest. At the same time, these new goods should also be prepared to offer sacrifices to ancestors, praying for good weather.
2. Eat dumplings
In northern my country, there is a saying that goes "Eat dumplings in the first ten days of the dog days, eat noodles in the second ten days, and eat pancakes with eggs in the third ten days." It is a traditional custom to eat dumplings on the first day of the dog days. During this period, people have poor appetite and are often thinner than usual, which is commonly known as the bitter summer. Dumplings are the food that stimulates the appetite and satisfies cravings in traditional customs. Dumplings have long been a favorite food of the people in large areas of the north. As the saying goes: "Nothing tastes better than dumplings."
3. Harvesting wheat
Around the beginning of the Lesser Heat, except for the harvesting of winter and spring wheat and other crops in the Northeast and Northwest regions, agricultural production is mainly busy with field management. Early rice is in the late stage of filling. Early-maturing varieties should mature and be harvested before the Great Heat, and the fields should be kept dry and wet. The mid-season rice has jointed and entered the heading stage. Topdressing fertilizer should be applied to the ears according to the growth trend to promote large ears and abundant grains.

What are the climate characteristics?

1. With the beginning of Lesser Heat, the plum rain season in the Yangtze and Huaihe River basins ends one after another, and the vast areas in the east to the north of the Huaihe River and Qinling Mountains begin the southeast monsoon rainy season from the Pacific Ocean. Precipitation increases significantly and the rainfall is relatively concentrated. South China, Southwest China, and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau are also in the southwest monsoon rainy season from the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea. The middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River are generally controlled by subtropical high pressure and have high temperatures and little rain. In some years, the cold air in the north is still strong around the beginning of the Lesser Heat, and is evenly matched with the warm air in the south in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, resulting in frontal thunderstorms. Thunderstorms during the Lesser Heat season are often a sign of the reverse plum rain season, which indicates that the rain belt will remain in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River for some time.
2. Around the beginning of the Lesser Heat, most areas in southern China enter the season with the most thunderstorms. Thunderstorm is a severe weather phenomenon, often accompanied by strong winds, heavy rains, and sometimes hail, which can easily cause disasters. In eastern South China, after the Lesser Heat, it is often controlled by the subtropical high pressure, with continuous sunny and high temperature weather, and begins to enter the summer drought period. Most parts of southern China have this climate characteristic of drought in the east and floods in the west.
Lesser Heat is a slightly hot season, not very hot. The Greater Heat is the hottest time of the year. During the Lesser Heat season, the plum rain season in the Yangtze and Huaihe River basins is about to end, midsummer begins, the temperature rises, and the summer drought period begins; while North China and Northeast China enter the rainy season, tropical cyclone activities become frequent, and the number of tropical cyclones making landfall in China begins to increase.

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