Saturday, August 9th, 2025, lunar leap sixth month 16th

Early Autumn Night Ode by Lu You

The scorching heat is still at its end, and the clear is suddenly replaced by a new autumn.
The dew room is cold, and the sound of anvil echoes the years.
Sad grass root language, flowing among solitary phosphorus bamboo.
Wen Dao River runs north and south, with locusts lurking in hundreds of states.

The last solar term is the last solar term of the dog days, usually the first one after the beginning of autumnany day that bears the seventh of the ten Heavenly StemsOn the day before the second Geng day, a total oftenHeaven, commonly known as“Indian Summer”，It belongs to the transitional period between summer and autumn. Traditional customs pay attention to diet conditioning, such as eating lentil Congee and coix seed Congee to promote dampness and strengthen the spleen, and drinking chrysanthemum tea to clear heat and relieve summer heat.

At this moment, the heat is like a dying ember, with occasional occurrences at noon“Indian Summer” Show off your might, but in the morning, there is already dew on the leaves and a gentle breeze brushing against your sleeves. The cicadas' chirping gradually fades away, the lotus cover is half broken, and the rice ears droop in the fields, hiding the foreshadowing of autumn harvest. People are looking forward to“Apply autumn fat” The warm soup quietly catches the transitional notes handed by the season between the lingering warmth of summer and the early coolness of autumn.