Summer solar term activities
1, playing chess
Chess, known as "the road of history", was taught by Emperor Yao to his son Dani. Go and chess are widely used now. Weiqi was called chess in ancient times, and Zuozhuan Xianggong Twenty-five Years recorded: "It is better to play chess than to regard a gentleman. Why not? " Confucius said, "Although it is a path, it will be considerable." There is also a description in Mencius: "Play autumn, and play games on behalf of the country." It can be seen that in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the atmosphere of playing chess has been very popular. In Miscellanies of Xijing, there is a man playing chess under the bamboo in the Han Palace. Du Fu Zi of Ling Du in the Western Han Dynasty was good at playing chess and was known as the first person in the world. Before the Tang Dynasty, there were 17 kinds of vertical and horizontal chess, 289 kinds of vertical and horizontal chess and black and white pieces of one hundred and fifty. After the Tang Dynasty, Zongheng 19 Road, * * * 36 1 Road.
2. Raising children.
Guo Guoer, whose real name is elder brother, first appeared in The Old Theory of Insects. Fruit often rubs its wings and makes a loud noise. Between summer and autumn, most of them are children. There is an insect that looks like a clam, and it is fierce and fat in the flower collection in the vase. People in Beijing call it a smoke beetle, while people in the south call it a brother. They like to catch it and raise it. Smoke flies eat loofah flower pulp, and the sound is similar to that of promoting weaving, but it is clearer than promoting weaving. Under the clear dew, smoke flies all night, and its sound is bleak and sour.
3. fishing; catch fish
It is cool in midsummer, not suitable for strenuous exercise, but suitable for activities with enjoyment and nourishing effects. Fishing in Liutang. Wearing a skirt when it is windy is the most pleasant leisure interest.
4.jasmine
Jasmine flowers bloom in hot summer like the scorching sun. The fragrance of flowers is rich, which can dispel the foul smell. In Jiangsu, Shanghai and other places, flower sellers in summer often tie lotus jasmine flowers into flower balls and ribbons with fine wire for women to wear. Flower farmers in Huqiu, Suzhou, put jasmine flowers in horse's head baskets and sell them along the street, which is called wearing flowers. Women usually buy and wear them. The Book of Jin says that "everyone has the beauty of flowers", and the beauty of flowers is now jasmine. In midsummer, pick jasmine flowers every night, take half a cup of well water, put the flowers on the cup with something, keep them one or two minutes high from the water, and seal them with thick paper. You can wear it the next day. Water is used to order tea, which is especially wonderful.
5.fireflies
Fireflies are beneficial insects, which eat all kinds of pests and are very beneficial to agricultural production. There are two kinds of fireflies, male and female. Males have yellow heads and black eyes, soft wings and dotted lines. Female insects have no wings and are shaped like maggots. Both male and female insects have light-emitting devices on their tails. When breathing, air flows into the human body, causing oxidation and emitting light, which is very beautiful. During the summer solar term, female insects lay eggs in aquatic plants, and the eggs also glow, and small fireflies fly out around summer. Che Yin in the Jin Dynasty was very poor, and had no money to buy lamp oil to study, so he put dozens of fireflies in his bag to study by lighting in summer (see Biography of the Book of Jin and Che Yin).
Health knowledge of solar terms in summer
1, diet conditioning
In summer, melons and fruits are very rich, so you can eat more fruits. When eating fruits, you should pay attention to the attributes of fruits, know your physique and avoid unnecessary troubles. For example, people with deficiency of spleen and stomach should eat less cool fruits such as watermelon and pear, and people who are prone to get angry should eat less fruits such as longan and litchi. Mango and pineapple are harmful to people with allergies.
Step 2 prevent colds
In summer, the yang of the human body floats on the body surface, and leaks with sweat, which makes the defensive qi insufficient and reduces the resistance. If you feel the external wind at this time, it can also cause wind chill, wind heat and summer dampness. So there are many kinds of colds in summer: wind-cold colds, fever is not obvious, and colds are obviously annoying. At the same time, the runny nose is clear and sneezing repeatedly. At this time, you should take 2 bags of Qinghan granules immediately, take them while they are hot, or drink brown sugar water with sliced onion and ginger every 2-3 hours, and most symptoms will be obviously relieved. If the body temperature rises rapidly, it is accompanied by aversion to cold and throat discomfort. Most of them are wind-heat colds, so everyone should pay attention to prevention and health care.
3. Daily life and rest
In hot weather, the output of the heart is obviously decreased, and the oxygen supply of various organs is obviously weakened. We must pay attention to raising the "heart". Regular daily life, proper exercise and more rest. Ensure adequate sleep and take a nap to make up for lack of sleep at night. It is not advisable to do morning exercises too early, so as not to affect sleep. In summer, the human body consumes a lot of energy, so the intensity should be controlled during exercise. Don't use cold drinks to cool down after exercise.
In addition, heatstroke is most likely to occur in midsummer. Heatstroke is mainly due to high temperature and poor ventilation conditions, and the body heat cannot be radiated to the outside. Pay attention to drink more water at ordinary times and go out for the summer less.
4. Emotional adjustment
According to the theory of "four seasons health preservation" in traditional Chinese medicine, summer belongs to fire, which leads to heart heat, and people are prone to symptoms such as irritability, fatigue, chest tightness, poor sleep, headache and palpitation. From the point of view of modern medicine, the high temperature of human body is easy to cause endocrine changes and mental instability, which makes people feel fidgety, confused, fidgety, irritable and even behavioral disorders, manifested as insomnia, forgetfulness, depression, loss of appetite and so on.
Regular work and rest can calm the mood. If you have insomnia, you can relax your whole body muscles when lying on your back or side, or pay attention to the ups and downs of abdominal breathing. After you get rid of other thoughts, you will naturally fall asleep when you are calm.
dog days
In ancient China, the summer heat was divided into three periods: "First, it was warm and windy; Second, wait for crickets to live in space; The third waiting eagle began to swallow. "
Waiting for the warm wind to come.
On the day of summer, it is warm wind, not hot air. However, in RoyceWong's "Da Xia Fu" in the Eastern Han Dynasty, there is a saying that "the earth is warm and the warm wind is flourishing". Just baking and baking, people are like a big steamer between heaven and earth, steaming all the dirt out; Another example is stretching in warm water. At this time, the warmth is like wine, and you can enjoy it to your heart's content-it's all because of your mood.
Erhou cricket giant fish
In the last five days, "crickets live in the wall" means that after being born, crickets still face the wall in the hole and cannot fly out of the hole. It didn't come out of the hole until July of the lunar calendar and was active in courtship in the grass. When it is cold in August, it gathers in the yard, making the yard buzzing, and the colder it gets, the closer it gets to people. If you don't enter the house in September, you will freeze to death. In October, it will sing under the bed. It is called "promoting weaving" to urge women to knit, and "promoting weaving to surprise lazy women" as a warning.
Three waiting eagles began to gather.
The eagle will start five days later, because the ground temperature is too high, and the eagle will move in the cool high air.