When is the beginning of summer in 2021? How is the Beginning of Summer calculated?

When is the beginning of summer in 2021? How is the Beginning of Summer calculated?
Lixia is the first solar term in summer, marking the beginning of summer. Want to know more about the Beginning of Summer solar term in 2021? After February's erratic weather, March has stabilized in all respects. As the saying goes, March is the best time of year. So what are the good days in March of the lunar calendar in 2021? If you want to know more, please visit Mr. Shuimo’s website.

When is the beginning of summer in 2021?

Lixia, the seventh solar term in the 24 solar terms and the first solar term in summer, falls between May 5 and 7 in the Gregorian calendar every year.
The beginning of summer in 2021 is on the lunar calendar: March 24, 2021; the Gregorian calendar: May 5, 2021, Wednesday
Specific time: 14:47:01 (afternoon)

How is the time of Beginning of Summer calculated?

Calculation formula: [Y*D+C]-L
Formula interpretation: Y = the last two digits of the year, D = 0.2422, L = the number of leap years, 21st century C = 5.52, 20th century = 6.318
For example: The date of the beginning of summer in 2088 = [88×.0.2422+5.52]-[88/4]=26-22=4, so May 4th is the beginning of summer.
Exception: For the year 1911, add one day to the result.

What are the customs and traditions of the Beginning of Summer?

1. Welcoming summer: In ancient times, people attached great importance to the customs of the beginning of summer. On the day of the Beginning of Summer, ancient emperors would lead civil and military officials to the southern suburbs of the capital to welcome the summer and hold a ceremony to welcome the summer. The emperor and his subjects all wore vermilion ceremonial robes and vermilion jade pendants. Even the horses, chariots and flags had to be vermilion to express their prayers for a good harvest and good wishes. In the palace, "the ice melted on the day of the beginning of summer and gifts were bestowed on civil and military officials." The ice was stored in the previous winter and given by the emperor to all officials.
2. Tasting new things: In later generations, there are festival activities such as tasting new things at the beginning of summer. For example, there is a proverb in Suzhou that "three new things are seen at the beginning of summer", which are cherries, green plums and wheat, which are used to worship ancestors. In Changshu, the food is more abundant. There is a saying that "nine meats and thirteen vegetables". The nine meats are crucian carp, salted eggs, snails, simmered chicken, pickled chicken, braised shrimp, and cherry meat; the thirteen vegetables include cherries, plums, wheat silkworms (new wheat is kneaded into thin strips and cooked), bamboo shoots, broad beans, spears, peas, cucumbers, lettuce, grass heads, radishes, roses, and pine flowers. In Nantong, people eat boiled chicken and duck eggs.
3. Egg fighting: On the day of the Beginning of Summer, every household boils whole eggs (the eggs are boiled in their shells and must not be broken), soaks them in cold water for a few minutes, puts them in a woven silk mesh bag, and hangs them around children’s necks. The children gathered in groups of three or five to play the egg-fighting game. The egg is divided into two ends, the pointed one is the head and the round one is the tail. When fighting eggs, egg heads fight egg heads, and egg tails fight egg tails. They fight one by one, the defeated one admits defeat, and finally the winner is determined. The winner of the egg head is first, and the egg is called the king; the winner of the egg tail is second, and the egg is called the little king or the second king. There is a proverb: "Hang an egg on your chest at the beginning of summer, and your child will not suffer from summer heatstroke."
4. Weighing people: There is a custom of weighing people after lunch at the beginning of summer. People hang a large wooden scale at the entrance of the village or at the gate, with a stool hung on the hook. Everyone takes turns sitting on the stool to weigh people. The scale operator was beating the scales while saying auspicious words. An old man would say "If you spend eighty-seven on the scale, you will live to ninety-one". The girl on the scale said, "One hundred and five kilograms, the young master's family has come to your house. Don't agree, don't agree, because you are destined to be with the number one scholar." The boy on the scale said, "Twenty-three flowers on the scale, the young master will get married when he grows up. Don't be afraid to get a seventh-rank county official, and it's also easy to marry a duke or a minister." The scale can only be punched from the inside (that is, from the small number to the large number), not from the outside to the inside.

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