Summer solstice in late June

Nai Dongku, Iris, Pinellia ternata

 

 

"When I Think of Returning, I Became a School Scholar at the First Time"

[Tang Dynasty] Bai Juyi

 

During the summer solstice, a yin is born,

A little late at night.

Those who are sad,

The only prophet in the long night.

Youyou Xiangguan Road,

The dream goes away and the body does not follow.

Sit and cherish the changing seasons,

The cicadas chirp on the locust branches.

 

In the Northern Hemisphere, the summer solstice is the day of the year with the longest day and shortest night. After that, the days get shorter and the nights get longer. The summer solstice is also called "summer half", which means that summer is halfway through. Although the weather is getting hotter and hotter, there is only half of summer left before the beginning of autumn.

Since Japan is in the rainy season, the sunshine hours are not that long, so most people will not feel that the days are particularly long. Taiwanese folk have"On the summer solstice, Fengtai is born."The proverb means that after the summer solstice, the rainy season ends, followed by the typhoon season.

 

Summer solstice health-clearing and heat-reducing food supplements

• The ancients had a food custom of "preventing summer dysentery during the summer solstice". For example, during the summer solstice, grind pea powder and mix it with sugarcane cream to make a cake, add peaches, apricots and other fruits. The peas can quench summer heat and prevent summer diseases. In addition, a new wheat is coming to the summer solstice, the so-called "Winter Solstice Dumplings and Summer Solstice Noodles", eat more noodles and less white rice in summer , less likely to get beriberi.
• If you eat too much ice cream, be careful not to relieve yourself from the heat, but may instead raise the internal fire. There are many traditional summer refreshing foods, such as mung beans. Add rock sugar to boil mung bean soup and drink it iced, which can relieve the afternoon heat. Eating mung bean porridge with side dishes for dinner can also relieve the heat.
• To replenish water, you can drink green herbal tea to clear away body heat, or you can blend bitter melon, celery, apple, and pineapple into a comprehensive juice to replenish water and a variety of minerals.

 

summer solsticeImportant events of the year

Japan

• June 30th: Natsukoshi no zodiac (ながしのはらえ): On this day, shrines and shrines have erected steam turbines and held sumatsugoe zodiac rituals (purifying the body and praying for no disasters), in order to pray for no illness and disaster in the second half of the year, and to safely survive the seasonal change. time.
• July 2nd to Tanabata (July 7th) Pinellia ternata: Plants that like shade and humidity begin to grow in Pinellia ternata. The 11th day from the summer solstice is called "Pinella ternata". Farmers regard this day as the day for transplanting rice seedlings. the term.

 

China

• The summer solstice was a major festival in ancient China. Officials would hold summer ceremonies, and private people would also celebrate the summer solstice and hold summer solstice feasts to entertain relatives and friends. Until the Qing Dynasty, civil and military officials could take three days off during the summer solstice and go home to escape the scorching heat. During the summer solstice, ancient people would tie colorful ribbons on their doors, which were said to ward off ghosts and eliminate epidemics.