"Double stars in the sky, summer and autumn on earth", Beijing time at 11:16 on August 23 will usher in the summer festival, marking the end of the hot summer day, and gradually entering the autumn in the meteorological sense, the weather conditions during this time are hot during the day, cool in the morning and evening, and the temperature difference between day and night increases.
Poster Maker: Fang Jinyang
Tianjin folklore expert and columnist introduced by Guoqing that from August 22 to 24 of the Gregorian calendar every year, when the sun reaches 150 degrees of the Ecliptic Longitude, it is the beginning of the summer, it is the fourteenth of the twenty-four solar terms, and it is also the second solar term in autumn. Dealing with heat, that is, "out of the summer", is the meaning of hot departure. By this time, the weather had passed or was nearing its end. This year's summer is in its ninth day.
Although the summer heat indicates the end of the heat, the folk proverb says that "the summer is still hot, like an autumn tiger", and in many parts of the mainland, especially in the southern region, the "autumn tiger" will continue for a period of time.
When will the weather really cool down? As the saying goes, "eighteen pots of summer, white dew do not show the body", which means that after the summer is still hot, you need to take a bath with a basin of cold water every day, and after washing eighteen pots, the solar terms have reached white dew, and the autumn coolness is gradually rising. However, the weather in the summer season is generally hot at noon, and it will be cooler in the morning and evening, plus one or two rains from time to time, which is "an autumn rain and a cool".
Poster Maker: Fang Jinyang
Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty said: "Away from the summer clouds, the cool breeze rises", and the Song people Su Yan also said: "There are no three days in the summer, and the new cool is straight." The refreshment brought by this refreshing "new coolness" is something that no other season will have.
The summer season is also the time of harvesting the crops. "He" refers to the general name of crops such as millet, millet, rice and sorghum, and "deng" means maturity. In short, this is the season of abundance.
Poster Maker: Fang Jinyang
In the summer season, how can the public maintain health care that is most suitable? Reminded by the National Day combined with the suggestions of health care experts, it is appropriate to eat hot and calm foods at this stage, such as white fungus, lilies, lotus seeds, honey, yellow fish, dried scallops, kelp, jellyfish, celery, spinach, glutinous rice, sesame seeds, beans, milk and the like, so as to eat less and more meals. Because the climate is gradually dry, at this time it is easy to suffer from dry mouth, dry throat, dry nose, cough and other diseases, we should pay attention to frequent water replenishment, eat more nourishing yin and dryness, nourishing the lungs and nourishing the heart, and strengthening the spleen.
Reporter: Zhou Runjian
Source: Xinhua News Agency