Long summer solar term: indicates the beginning of summer, usually from May 5th to 7th.

Summer solstice solar term: the longest day and the shortest night in the whole summer, generally on June 2 1-22. After the summer solstice, the time of the day is gradually shortened.

Second, health care precautions:

1, changxia: keep healthy and raise "heart". It is wise to avoid getting angry in hot weather.

Chinese medicine experts pointed out that people used to take the long summer as long summer. At this time, the temperature has obviously risen, and the average temperature in most parts of the country is around 18-20℃, which is the mid-spring and late spring season of "all kinds of red and purple contend for wild things"; When summer comes, thunderstorms increase and plants enter the peak season, which is an important solar term.

Connecting with the heart in summer is beneficial to the physiological activities of the heart. Therefore, it is necessary to adapt to the change of this solar term and maintain your heart.

2, summer solstice: daily rest, in order to adapt to the changes in nature, it is appropriate to go to bed late and get up early.

It is very hot in summer. If you sweat too much, you will feel dizzy, chest tightness, palpitation, thirst, nausea and even coma. When arranging outdoor work and physical exercise, you should avoid the scorching sun and strengthen protection.

Reasonable arrangement of lunch break, one is to avoid the hot trend, the other is to restore the feeling of fatigue. Taking a bath with warm water every day is also a fitness measure worth promoting, which can not only wash away sweat and dirt, but also make the skin clean and cool, relieve summer heat and prevent diseases, and also play a role in exercising.

Third, the significance of summer solstice meals:

In our country, there is a special custom that is carried out in the long summer season. It is called eating long summer rice. In the folk, people who eat rice in the long summer will be healthy and avoid disasters, which also represents people's desire to spend the hot summer smoothly.

Fourth, the practice of rice in summer solstice:

There are two kinds of long summer rice, one is black rice that can dispel wind and detoxify; The other is "wild rice" (commonly known as salted bean glutinous rice in Hangzhou).

Black rice is a purple-black glutinous rice, but it is not made of black rice or purple rice. It's a soup made of black leaves, soaked in glutinous rice all night, and steamed on a pot fire.

In the small food market in Xintang Road, Hangzhou, there is a stall selling black leaves, and the business is very good. A few dollars can buy a big bag, and half a catty at home is enough. The cooked black rice is bright and fragrant, and it is very delicious to dip in white sugar.