Culture Insider: Six things you may not know about Minor Heat

Updated: 2016-07-07 09:42

(chinadaily.com.cn)

Fireflies fly in the air at the Linggu Temple in Nanjing city, East China's Jiangsu province, July 16, 2015. [Photo/Xinhua]

Firefly season

Minor Heat is the season when fireflies become lively. Zhu Shuzhen, a woman of the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279), once described in her famous poem Summer Fireflies a happy scene of children playing with fireflies in the woods at night.