This year, the weather in the south is not only hot, but also very humid, and many places have suffered floods not long ago, and will soon usher in a "little heat".
As the saying goes, "not afraid of the summer rain, just afraid of the summer heat", so the summer is sunny or rainy, and what kind of impact does it have on future life?
Let's first take a look at why the solar term is called "Xiaoxiao"? The "big" and "small" here actually refer to the heat of summer, because the word "summer" represents "heat".
It is recorded in ancient books: the summer heat is divided into sizes, the beginning of the month is small, and the middle of the month is large! For example, this year's small summer is on the first day of the sixth lunar month, and the big summer is June 17, and the ancients believed that the small summer is "still hot", so it is called "small summer".
There is a verse in the "Book of Songs" that describes Xiaoxia, saying "July is in the wild, August is in Yu, September is in the house, and crickets in October are under my bed." Many people suspect that this poem is not written in Xiaoxia, July, August, September and October, how can it be Xiaoxia?
In fact, the sentences about the solar terms in the Book of Poetry are all used in the Zhou calendar, probably the calendar adopted in the pre-Qin period, and today we use the summer calendar, the August in the poem, just the small summer solar term, at this time, the crickets burrow into the corner to avoid the heat, so in the summer night, we hear the chirping of crickets.
The mainland is mainly characterized by monsoon climate, affected by the warm and humid air flow of the ocean, most areas will have high temperature and rainy weather, for agricultural production, the rain in the summer season is conducive to the growth of crops, but if there is a high temperature and drought before and after the summer heat, it is likely to affect the harvest of the year, so as the saying goes, "not afraid of a small summer rain, afraid of a small summer sunny".
Although the rainy weather in the summer season is conducive to agricultural production, it may also cause floods, especially in the southern region, which is prone to thunderstorms, and violent storms and rains will bring natural disasters such as flash floods and mudslides.
In the eastern part of South China, continuous sunny days often bring high temperature and drought, and meteorology calls this law of small heat "drought in the east and flood in the west".
However, according to the experience summarized by the ancients, "not afraid of a small summer rain, you are afraid of a small summer sunshine", indicating that the rain in the summer is better than the sunny day in the small summer.
Finally, I would like to share with you a poem by Yuan Zhi in the Tang Dynasty, which is written about the small summer: the sudden temperature and wind come, and the small summer comes. The bamboo noise feels the rain first, and the mountain has heard thunder.
Then this poem by Yuan Zhen fully shows the climate change in the summer season, which means that suddenly there is a heat wave hit, it turns out that it is the summer season, and the bamboo forest outside the window is shaking and causing a noisy noise, indicating that there is about to be a heavy rain, and the sky becomes gray and gloomy, as if a burst of thunder has been heard.
As the saying goes, "small heat and big heat, steaming and cooking", in the hot summer, remind everyone to pay attention to heat prevention, although the weather is hot, but remember: the heart is calm and naturally cool!