{"id":8588,"date":"2019-10-31T15:30:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T15:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-reading\/the-proverbs-of-summer-solstice\/"},"modified":"2019-10-31T15:30:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T15:30:54","slug":"the-proverbs-of-summer-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/the-proverbs-of-summer-solstice\/","title":{"rendered":"The Proverbs of Summer Solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>This folk song vividly describes the changes in weather from hot summer to cool autumn.<\/p>\n<p>  The first nine-day begins when the Summer Solstice comes, people cannot leave their fans.<br \/>  \u4e00\u4e5d\u81f3\u4e8c\u4e5d\uff0c\u6247\u5b50\u4e0d\u79bb\u624b\uff1b<\/p>\n<p>  During the second nine-day period, taking hats off and wearing voile clothes.<br \/>  \u4e8c\u4e5d\u4e00\u5341\u516b\uff0c\u8131\u51a0\u7740\u7f57\u886b\uff1b<\/p>\n<p>  During the third nine-day period, sweat drops when people step out of their houses.<br \/>  \u4e09\u4e5d\u4e8c\u5341\u4e03\uff0c\u51fa\u95e8\u6c57\u6ef4\u6ef4\uff1b<\/p>\n<p>  During the fourth nine-day period, getting soaked with sweat.<br \/>  \u56db\u4e5d\u4e09\u5341\u516d\uff0c\u8863\u886b\u6c57\u6e7f\u900f\uff1b<\/p>\n<p>  The fifth nine-day, weather is as hot as a tiger.<br \/>  \u4e94\u4e5d\u56db\u5341\u4e94\uff0c\u6811\u68a2\u8f7b\u98ce\u821e\uff1b<\/p>\n<p>  The sixth nine-day, enjoying the cool in temples.<br \/>  \u516d\u4e5d\u4e94\u5341\u56db\uff0c\u4e58\u51c9\u52ff\u592a\u8fdf\uff1b<\/p>\n<p>  The seventh nine-day, starting covering double coverlet.<br \/>  \u4e03\u4e5d\u516d\u5341\u4e09\uff0c\u591c\u7720\u5bfb\u88ab\u5355\uff1b<\/p>\n<p>  The eighth nine-day, looking for quilts in the middle of the night.<br \/>  \u516b\u4e5d\u4e03\u5341\u4e8c\uff0c\u5f53\u5fc3\u53d7\u98ce\u5bd2\uff1b<\/p>\n<p>  The ninth nine-day, preparing to put on cotton-padded clothes.<br \/>  \u4e5d\u4e5d\u516b\u5341\u4e00\uff0c\u5bb6\u5bb6\u5907\u68c9\u8863\u3002<br \/>  Due to the vastness of China and global warming, this folk song may not be suitable anymore. But weather becoming hotter and hotter after Summer Solstice is still the trend.<\/p>\n<p>  Many couplets a<em><\/em>bout Summer Solstice are natural in words but exquisite. One famous couplet goes, &quot;If there are thunders in Summer Solstice, the summer following will be very hot; if there is no rain in Double-ninth Festival, weather in the winter following will be sunny.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>  There is another couplet that goes, &quot;Tomb-sweeping Day is for Kaoliang and Grain in Bud for Grain; sesame in Grain in Ear and beans in Summer Solstice.&quot;<br type=\"_moz\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1138042912\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This folk song vividly describes the changes in weather from hot summer to cool autumn. The first nine-day begins when<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-reading"],"views":199,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}