Start of Summer 立夏

What it marks

Summer begins. Growth turns from tentative to committed, and the almanac's advice shifts with it — from starting things to sustaining them.

Traditionally favours

• building
• expansion
• visible effort
• construction

Good for work that needs momentum behind it rather than a careful beginning.

These are the tradition’s tendencies, not guarantees — and a solar term describes a stretch of weeks, so for a specific day check today’s almanac, which reads the day’s own 宜 and 忌.