tHe SuMMER ON May 6, Lin-HsIA ¥% EL.
On the 29th of the 3rd month, corresponding to our May 6, the Chinese Calendar announces the commencement of summer, Lih-hsia Yé @%. This date is rather early, 47 days before the solstice, which falls on June 22, The reader must remember that we had the commencement of spring, Lih-chun We Ff, in this go-ahead country on the 27th day of the 12th month, that is on February 4, or four full days before the Old Year expired.
Now the summer is ahead of the sol-stick by a month and a half, an_ utter anomaly, for the real warm season" begins a week or two after the solstice. say from July 15 to September 15. It is the sun that regulates the seasons, and not the moon, so all the above drawbacks and others would be remedied by a general adoption of the Solar Calendar.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.