When is the beginning of summer in 2020? What is the beginning of summer? If the beginning of summer doesn't come out, cut the grain and feed the old cow.

The End of Heat is the 14th solar term of the traditional 24 solar terms. Although it is an autumn solar term, high temperatures will still occur after the End of Heat. It will take a few days to feel the coolness of autumn. So when is the End of Heat in 2020? What does the agricultural proverb "If the End of Heat does not come out, cut the grain and feed the old cow" mean?

When is the beginning of summer in 2020?

The Chushu solar term is the second solar term in autumn, but the summer heat has not completely dissipated at this time, but it also means that autumn is not far away.

The time intersection of the Chushu solar term is between August 22nd and 24th of the Gregorian calendar every year. The Chushu solar term in 2020 is August 22nd in the Gregorian calendar, Saturday, the fourth day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar, and the Yiwei day of the Jiashen month.

According to the old almanac, the specific start time of the Beginning of Autumn in 2020 is 23:43:59.

What does it mean that if the beginning of summer heat doesn't come, harvest the grain and feed the old cow?

"If the ears do not grow during the Chushu period, the seeds will be harvested and fed to cattle" is a farming proverb, which means that during the Chushu period, if the crops in the fields, such as sorghum, corn and millet, do not grow ears, it means they will not be ripe, so it is better to harvest them early and feed them to cattle. It generally refers to rice crops in Hebei, northern North China, southern Inner Mongolia, southern Northeast China and the Hexi Corridor, because if these crops do not grow ears during the Chushu period, their seeds will not mature in the autumn because they will be killed by frost.

The analogy to people is that "seasons wait for no one". There is an old saying that people cannot learn a craft after the age of 30, which means that it is difficult to succeed in learning a craft after the age of 30. However, according to today's saying, it is actually to live and learn, and to study hard to supplement knowledge, otherwise you will be eliminated.

In Anhui, the solar term comes earlier than in Hebei. There people say: "If the beginning of autumn does not show up, cut the grass and feed it to the cow."

Agricultural proverbs related to the End of Heat

During the Beginning of Autumn, sorghum turns red all over the ground.

1. In the beginning of autumn, sorghum is harvested everywhere with sickles.

2. End of Heat, sorghum and white dew valley.

3. Harvest yellow rice three days after the beginning of summer heat.

4. On the tenth day of the Beginning of Autumn, people are busy harvesting rice.

5. When millet turns green again, the yield increases by one stone, but when sorghum turns green again, the yield decreases greatly.

6. When millet turns green, it collapses the field; when sorghum turns green, it becomes a handful of chaff.

7. If you are careless during the autumn harvest, the birds will burst their stomachs.

8. It is still hot during the Beginning of Autumn, just like the autumn heat.

9. The day during the Beginning of Autumn is not too hot, the heat is at noon.

10. The grains of hot and ripened rice are firm and plump.

11. If it rains during the Beginning of Heat, every grain of rice will be good.

12. Early rain in the beginning of summer means rice in the barn.

13. If there is no rain during the Beginning of Autumn, the rice will be hard to preserve even if it produces fruits.

14. Three days after the Beginning of Heat, the rice (late rice) becomes pregnant. When the Cold Dew arrives, the rice is stored in the granary.

15. As the weather turns yellow during the Beginning of Autumn, beware of strong winds.

16. During the Beginning of Autumn, the ground turns yellow and every household builds up its granary.

17. Harvest millet in the Beginning of Heat and harvest grain in the White Dew.

18. New flowers appear in the beginning of summer.

19. It’s a nice sunny day during the Beginning of Autumn, and every family is picking new cotton.

20. The flowers bloom during the Beginning of Autumn but no petals (fluff) are seen.

21. Flowers bloom in the beginning of summer, but they don’t return home.

22. Pick the flowers of the Beginning of Autumn and bring them home; don’t bring the flowers of the White Dew home; pick the flowers of the White Dew when the temperature is high and the frost is late.

23. Potatoes grow during the Beginning of Autumn.

24. Move the cabbage during the Beginning of Autumn, and nine out of ten times they will stay together.

25. Transplant cabbage during the Beginning of Autumn, hoe the seedlings vigorously and dry them in the sun.

26. Planting cabbage during the Beginning of Autumn is beneficial and has no harm.

27. Plant in the beginning of summer and before the beginning of white dew. If you plant any later, it will be too late.

28. Plant during the End of Heat, water during the White Dew, and water during the Autumnal Equinox.

29. Pull out hemp and pick old melons during the Beginning of Autumn.

30. Red dates appear in the Beginning of Heat, and they are all harvested in the Autumnal Equinox.

31. Take good care of the livestock before autumn, so that they can thrive in the fields in the third autumn.

32. Fish grow rapidly during the Beginning of Autumn. Management should be strengthened, food should be increased, and diseases should be prevented early.

33. The insects of the Beginning of Heat will shake your eyes and make them red.

34. Rain in the Beginning of Heat, rice in the barn.

35. The beginning of summer heat will kill rats.

36. If it rains at the Beginning of Heat, 18 rivers will flow; if it doesn’t rain, all rivers will dry up.

37. If you are careless during the autumn harvest, the birds will burst their stomachs.