Time flies, on May 5 we will usher in the beginning of the summer solar term, the beginning of summer is the first solar term of summer, when the sun reaches the yellow longitude of 45 degrees. "The bucket handle refers to the east, the world is spring, the east handle guide, the world is summer, the bucket handle points to the west, the world is autumn, the bucket handle points to the north, the world is winter", the bucket handle of the Big Dipper points to the southeast when it enters the summer solar term, and the arrival of the beginning of summer marks the end of spring and the beginning of summer.
"Lixia weighs the number of people, the scale hangs on the sorghum and laughs loudly", there is a custom of Lixia weighing people in the mainland, people hang a big scale on the roof or a big tree, the scale hook hangs a stool, and then everyone takes turns to sit on the stool to weigh people, while weighing will also say auspicious words, it is said that after weighing this day, people are not afraid of the heat of summer, and they will not be emaciated. After entering the beginning of summer, as the weather becomes hotter, people are prone to loss of appetite, and some people will lose weight, so the people of Lixia reflect people's expectations of "increasing happiness and longevity".
In ancient times, the emperor would reward officials with ice cubes on the day of the beginning of summer to help people cool off. And in the mainland folk have the custom of fighting eggs and eating eggs in Lixia, "boil the eggs, children come to fight", in the day of Lixia, people will boil the eggshell eggs, soak them in cold water for a few minutes, and then put them on the net bag and hang them on the children's necks, some children will also try each other to see whose eggshell is hard, called "fighting eggs", people will eat the eggs after the eggs, it is said that this can prevent "boiled summer", this is because eggs are a simple and easy to obtain nutrients, and eating eggs in Lixia can play a tonic role.
The beginning of summer is a very important solar term, which can be a good guide for us to carry out agricultural production, there is an old saying in the mainland folk called "the beginning of summer and winter, everywhere to add graves", so what does this sentence mean? Let's find out together.
The term "Winter Order" comes from the "Book of Rites", which records: "When Mengxia performs the autumn order, the bitter rain comes, the grains are not nourishing, and the four contempts are insured." In winter, the grass and trees will wither, and then there will be a big flood, and the city will be defeated. If the spring order is carried out, the locusts will be a disaster, the storm will come, and the grass will not be real."
Each season has three months, summer includes Mengxia, midsummer, Jixia, Mengxia refers to the beginning of the summer to the time of the mang, midsummer refers to the time from the beginning of the summer to the small summer, the season of the summer refers to the time from the small summer to the beginning of the autumn, the arrival of the beginning of the summer marks the official beginning of the Mengxia season.
If the weather in the summer season (the first month of summer) is like autumn, then in the experience of our ancestors, this is a sign of persistent rainy weather in the future, crops that fail due to poor growth, and farmers who flee from the countryside to the cities to seek refuge from disasters.
If the weather in the summer months is as cold as winter, the vegetation will wither early, and this is a sign that floods or torrential rains may follow, which can cause damage to the houses.
The climate in spring is warm and dry, and if the climate in the summer season is like spring, then, according to the experience of the ancients, this indicates the possibility of locust plagues, accompanied by stormy weather, which will cause crops to grow poorly, and they will not be able to flower and bear fruit properly.
As the old saying goes, "The beginning of summer and winter must be a disaster year". If we understand the above, then the meaning of this old saying is easy to understand, the climate in summer is supposed to be hot, and if the temperature is still relatively cold after entering summer, then it will seriously affect agricultural production. At the same time, the cold weather in the beginning of summer will also lead to rotten seeds that have not yet been unearthed, which will cause the seedlings that have been unearthed to be frozen to death, which will cause a large number of fruit trees to drop flowers and fruits, and the yield of crops will be seriously affected.
In ancient times, when the productive forces were underdeveloped, once they encountered a year with a poor grain harvest, then people might not have enough to eat, and in serious cases, it might even lead to famine, and there might be a phenomenon of adding graves everywhere, which can be said to be very reasonable.
Farmers rely on the weather to eat, the change of weather has a great impact on farming, each season should correspond to the climate of each season, if the season and climate are abnormal, then it will cause various natural disasters, which will not only affect the growth and harvest of crops, but also endanger people's life safety and social stability. Farmers rely on the sky to eat, we have to be in awe of nature, "Mengxia spring, autumn, winter" are all abnormal climate, which also reflects the ancient people's attention to the laws of nature and climate change, we must reasonably arrange agricultural production according to the changes in the weather.
We can judge whether there is much rain in summer according to the weather on the day of the beginning of summer, the agricultural proverb says "there is rain in the beginning of summer, nine big waters", "the beginning of summer does not fall, the rake hangs high", according to the experience of our ancestors, the rain on the day of the beginning of summer indicates that there is more rain in summer, and the beginning of summer does not rain indicates that it is easy to dry in the future, so it is a good sign for the ancients to rain in the beginning of summer.