Spring fights for the day, summer fights for the day, this year's Lixia Festival has quietly arrived. From this day on, farmers will enter a busier farming season. For agricultural production, Lixia is of great significance, so the ancestors will pass down many agricultural proverbs related to the Lixia Festival.
As the first solar term of summer, the beginning of summer also marks the end of spring and the beginning of summer. Generally speaking, the date of the new calendar where the beginning of summer falls every year is fixed, concentrated on May 5 to May 7. The beginning of summer in 2024 will be 8:09:51 a.m. on May 5. The time gap is mainly determined by the time when the sun reaches 45 degrees of ecliptic longitude.
However, in the lunar calendar, the specific date of the beginning of summer each year is quite different, especially sometimes there will be a leap month, which will be even more different. From the perspective of the overall calendar law, the Lixia Festival belongs to the April Festival, and the frequency of occurrence in the fourth month of the lunar calendar is higher. In this regard, this is also verified in the "Seventy-two Candidate Explanations of the Lunar Order", "Lixia, April Festival".
According to the time of day of the summer festival, there is also a corresponding agricultural proverb, according to which people predict the weather conditions on dog days. "The beginning of summer is at the head, into the sauna, the beginning of summer at the end, into the ambush and wear cotton", belongs to the agricultural proverb can often be heard. What does this mean? Let's find out.
"The beginning of summer is at the head, into the sauna"
The "beginning of summer" mentioned here refers to the beginning of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, and it is also the time when the beginning of summer is generally intersected. This agricultural proverb says that if the beginning of the summer festival falls at the beginning of the fourth lunar month, it indicates that this summer will be very hot, just like staying in the sauna, the heat will be very hot.
In other words, it is reminding people that the beginning of the summer festival is at the beginning of the month, indicating that the summer heat comes relatively late, so that when it comes to the ambush, it will only be hotter.
"The beginning of summer is at the end, and the ambush wears cotton"
"The beginning of summer at the end" refers to the beginning of the summer festival at the end of the third month of the lunar calendar, indicating that the time of summer is relatively early, and the weather is relatively early. "Wear cotton in ambush" emphasizes the contrast between the temperature before and after.
On the other hand, at the end of the month, the probability of extreme weather may be greater, such as unstable temperatures or cooling on dog days.
What will happen in the beginning of summer in 2024?
This year, the beginning of summer is on the twenty-seventh day of the third month of the lunar calendar, and the festival is at the end of the third month of the lunar calendar. The beginning of summer came relatively early, indicating that the dog days also came earlier, which can be seen as an omen that when it comes to the ambush, it may not be so hot.
This is consistent with the "La Niña" climate phenomenon that may occur this summer, and echoes another agricultural proverb, "Cool and swish in the morning, and dead cattle in the evening". However, with global warming, the once agricultural proverb may not be so accurate, just understand it.
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