Great heat, one of the 24 solar terms, is the last solar term in summer. Fifteen days after the light heat stroke, the bucket finger is not the heavy heat stroke; The sun yellow longitude is 120 °; July 22-24, Gregorian calendar. "Heatstroke" means hot, which means extreme heat. Compared with light heat, great heat is more hot, and it is the hottest solar term with the most sunshine in a year. At this time, "hot and humid steam" reaches its peak. Climatic characteristics of severe heat: high temperature, intense heat, frequent thunderstorms and typhoons.
Schedule of Summer Fever in Recent Years
| particular year |
date |
lunar calendar |
the Chinese zodiac |
week |
| two thousand and twenty-four |
2024-07-22 |
June 17, Year A |
Loong |
Monday |
| two thousand and twenty-five |
2025-07-22 |
June 28, Yisi Year |
snake |
Tuesday |
| two thousand and twenty-six |
2026-07-23 |
On the 10th day of June in the year of Bingwu |
horse |
Thursday |
| two thousand and twenty-seven |
2027-07-23 |
June 20, Ding Weinian |
sheep |
Friday |
| two thousand and twenty-eight |
2028-07-22 |
On the first day of June, the fifth lunar year |
monkey |
Saturday |
The summer solar term is around the middle of the "dog days", which is the hottest time of the year. In the summer, the sun is fierce, the temperature is humid and the rain is rainy. Although it is hard to avoid the pain of damp heat, it is very conducive to the growth of crops, which grow fastest during this period.
Since ancient times, people have the custom of drinking herbal tea (Fu tea) during the three dog days of summer heat; As the name implies, Fu tea is the tea that is drunk in the dog days. This kind of tea made from Chinese herbal medicine has the effect of cooling and relieving the heat. In addition, there are customs such as burning incense and drying ginger. "Heatstroke" is the hottest and most humid season of the year. At this time, the focus of health care is "heatstroke prevention" and "dehumidification".
Song of the Twenty four Solar Terms
The spring rain startles the clear valley sky in spring. The summer is full of sunshine and the summer heat is connected.
There is dew in autumn, cold in autumn, frost falling, snow in winter, snow in winter, and cold in winter.
The two festivals of each month are unchanged, with a maximum difference of one or two days.
In the first half of the year, it was 621, and in the second half of the year, it was 823.
Twenty four seasonal songs
At the beginning of spring, the sun turns and the rain flows along the river;
Waking crows cry, and the skin dries at the vernal equinox;
The Qingming Festival is busy planting wheat, and the grain rain is planting fields.
The goose feather lives in the beginning of summer, and the small full sparrow comes to the whole;
May Festival of awn seed, no cotton in summer solstice;
Light heat is not hot, but severe heat is dog days.
In the beginning of autumn, I was busy fighting indigo and drying tigers in the summer;
White dew and smoke are put on the shelf, and there is no field on the autumnal equinox;
The cold dew is not cold, and the frost has changed the sky.
The beginning of winter is October, and the snow is sealed tightly;
On the fork of the snow river, there is no boat on the winter solstice;
The mild cold enters the December, and the severe cold lasts another year.
The corresponding seventy-two days of severe heat are when grass rots into fireflies, five days of soil moistens and five days of heavy rain.
Seventy two marquis is a calendar supplement used to guide agricultural activities in ancient China. It is compiled according to the geography, climate and some natural scenes of the Yellow River basin. It is based on five days, three seasons, six seasons and four seasons. There are 72 seasons in a year. Each weather corresponds to a phenological phenomenon, which is called "waiting". Among them, plants are supposed to sprout, blossom, and bear fruit;
