Beginning of summer is the seventh solar term among the twenty-four solar terms, and the first solar term in summer. The festival is held on May 5-07 of the Gregorian calendar every year. At this time, the handle of the Big Dipper is pointing to the southeast, and the solar longitude reaches 45 °. The almanac: "The Dou refers to the southeast, and Wei means the beginning of summer. Everything has grown up here, so it is called the beginning of summer." After the beginning of summer, the sunshine has increased, gradually warming up, and thunderstorms have increased. The beginning of summer is an important solar term that marks the beginning of the peak season for all things to grow.
Timetable for the Beginning of Summer in Recent Years
| particular year |
date |
lunar calendar |
the Chinese zodiac |
week |
| two thousand and twenty-five |
2025-05-05 |
April 8th, Yisi |
snake |
Monday |
| two thousand and twenty-six |
2026-05-05 |
March 19, the Year of the Third Five Year Plan |
horse |
Tuesday |
| two thousand and twenty-seven |
2027-05-06 |
April 1st, Ding Weinian |
sheep |
Thursday |
| two thousand and twenty-eight |
2028-05-05 |
April 11, the fifth lunar year |
monkey |
Friday |
| two thousand and twenty-nine |
2029-05-05 |
March 22, Youyou Year |
chicken |
Saturday |
Beginning of summer means farewell to spring, which is the beginning of summer, so it is also called "the end of spring". Spring birth, summer growth, autumn harvest, winter storage, until the beginning of summer, everything flourishes. Due to China's vast territory and large north-south span, natural rhythms vary from place to place. At the beginning of summer, only the area south of the line from Fuzhou to Nanling has entered the real summer of "thick shade of green trees, long summer days, and reflection of buildings into the pond"; However, some areas in the northeast and northwest just had the smell of spring. According to the classification standard of modern climatology (climatological average temperature) in China, summer begins when the daily average temperature steadily rises above 22 ℃.
On the first day of summer, many places have the customs of eating "first summer meal", eating eggs, weighing people and tasting Sanxin. In the beginning of summer, people's metabolism is accelerated, and the blood supply of heart and brain is insufficient, which often makes people irritable, tired and lazy. It is necessary to reasonably arrange work and rest time, supplement nutrients, and adopt correct health care methods.
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 the beginning of summer are when mole grasshopper chirps, earthworms come out on the fifth day, and Wanggua grows on the fifth day.
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;
