摘要
ONE of the Chinese 24 solar terms called Beginning of Summer usually falls each year on a day between May 5 and 7 according to the solar calendar. It signals the end of spring and the start of summer. For centuries, people of the Banshan neighborhood in the city of Hangzhou in east China’s Zhejiang Province celebrate this day with an array of folk events. Each festive activity symbolizes the community’s practical knowledge and wisdom of adapting their day-to-day activities and agricultural production to the changes of their natural environment, and expresses their earnest wishes for a better future.
