Healthy food in the long summer solar term: duck eggs, lettuce, poria cocos, wheat, bitter gourd, pig heart, lotus seeds, mung beans, millet, lotus roots and so on.
Long summer is the seventh solar term in the twenty-four solar terms of the lunar calendar and the first solar term in summer, which indicates the official start of the summer season. When the sun reaches 45 degrees of the yellow meridian, it is the solar term of long summer. The bucket refers to the southeast, and the dimension is long in summer. Everything has grown to this day, hence the name Long Summer.
"Yi Zhou Shu Shi Xun Jie" says: "On a long summer day, it sounds like a song. On the fifth day, the earthworm came out. Another five days, Wang Guasheng. " That is to say, in this solar term, we can first hear the chirping of salamanders in the fields, then we can see earthworms digging in the soil, and then the vines of melon begin to climb and grow rapidly. This is the phenological scene that describes the beginning of Xia Meng.
The climate characteristics of long summer are long summer, everything is prosperous, the heat is coming, and thunderstorms are increasing. However, the rainy season is mostly in Jiangnan. Persistent rainy weather may cause wet damage to crops and may also lead to the epidemic of crop diseases. At this time, although the temperature in northwest and north China rose rapidly, there was not much precipitation and the spring breeze evaporated seriously. If the rain is insufficient, it will have the greatest impact on wheat filling in the north.