What are the customs of Great Heat? How much do you know about the customs of Great Heat?
Different solar terms also have different customs and habits. So, let’s take a look at what customs are there in the Great Heat? At this time of the sixth lunar month, the north and south of the country are experiencing scorching heat. The scorching sun is scorching everything, and everything seems to be scorched, so it is called the "Scorched Month". For more information about the sixth lunar month in 2020, please visit Mr. Shui Mo's website for related topics!What are the customs of Great Heat?The Great Heat needs to send off the Great Heat boat . As the saying goes, "The heat is in the three-fu days." The Great Heat is usually in the middle stage of the three-fu days. At this time, most parts of China are in the hottest time of the year. The "Great Summer Boat" activity during the Great Heat season has a history of hundreds of years along the coast of Taizhou, Zhejiang.On the day of the Great Heat Festival, people in Putian have the custom of eating lychees, mutton and rice dregs, which is called "celebrating the Great Heat". On the day of the Great Heat Festival, relatives and friends often give each other lychees and mutton as gifts. Burning incense during the Great Heat is similar to moxibustion in traditional Chinese medicine. Using medicinal incense to fumigate specific acupuncture points during the dog days can cure many stubborn diseases. There is also a saying that people burn incense and pray during the dog days, praying for good weather and a good harvest. Drink Fu tea during the Great Heat. From ancient times to the present, people have the custom of drinking Fu tea during the Great Heat and the Three Dogs. Fu tea, as the name suggests, is the tea that is drunk during the Three Dogs. This tea, made from more than ten Chinese herbal medicines such as honeysuckle, selfheal, and licorice, has the effect of cooling down and relieving heat. During the dog days of summer , people cut ginger into slices or squeeze the juice, mix it with brown sugar, put it in a container, cover it with gauze, and dry it in the sun. In many places in Guangdong, there is a custom of eating grass jelly during the Great Heat. Grass jelly, also known as jelly grass and fairy grass, is an herbaceous plant of the genus Grass jelly in the family Lamiaceae and is an important plant resource for both medicinal and edible purposes. Because of its magical effect of relieving heat, it is known as "immortal grass". The stems and leaves can be dried and made into grass jelly, which is called jelly in Guangdong and is a summer dessert. Drink mutton soup on the day of Great Heat . In many areas of Shandong, there is a custom of "drinking mutton soup" on the day of Great Heat. In Zaozhuang City, many citizens go to the local mutton soup restaurant to "drink summer mutton" on the day of the Great Heat. Eat lychees during the Great Heat . According to Putian customs, every household eats lychees during the Great Heat, which is called "celebrating the Great Heat." Lychees contain glucose and multiple vitamins and are rich in nutritional value, so eating fresh lychees can nourish the body. What does Great Heat mean?Great Heat, one of the 24 solar terms, is the last solar term in summer. The Big Dipper points to Bing; the sun's ecliptic longitude is 120°; the solar term falls on July 22-24 of the Gregorian calendar. "Shu" means hot, and the Great Heat refers to extreme heat. Compared with Lesser Heat, Greater Heat is hotter and is the hottest solar term in the year. The "heat and humidity" reach their peak at this time. Climate characteristics of the Great Heat season: extremely high temperatures, frequent thunderstorms and typhoons.The Great Heat solar term falls around the middle of the three hottest days of the year, which is the hottest time of the year. Since ancient times, people have had the custom of drinking cold tea (Fu tea) during the dog days of summer. As the name suggests, Fu tea is tea that is drunk during the dog days of summer. This tea made from Chinese herbal medicine has the effect of cooling down and relieving heat. In addition, there are customs such as burning incense and drying ginger during the Fuxi period. People born at different times will have different destinies due to their different genders. Do you want to know whether your destiny is good or not? Click on the following exquisite calculation to predict your destiny. |
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