Northern Hemisphere

The Summer Solstice, also known as the "Summer Festival" or "Summer Solstice Festival." Ancient people said: "The sun reaches its northernmost point, the longest day, and the shortest shadow, hence it is called the Summer Solstice. 'To solstice' means to reach an extreme." The Summer Solstice is the day when the sun travels farthest north, making it the day with the longest daylight hours and the highest angle of the sun in the Northern Hemisphere.Tang Fang, a mentor in the Sixth Batch of National Experts in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Academic Experience Inheritance and Professor at Tianjin Medical University, believes that the spleen governs transportation and transformation, while the stomach governs reception and containment; the spleen promotes clearness, and the stomach descends turbidity. When the spleen and stomach coordinate in reception and transformation, promote clearness and descend turbidity, and balance dryness and dampness, they jointly complete the digestion and absorption of food and drink and the distribution of water and grain essence. The Summer Solstice is the time when yang energy is most abundant, and yin energy begins to grow. It is a season where diseases related to spleen deficiency and dampness entrapment are prevalent. It is also a period…