<Summer Solstice>-1st term of full ripe rice in Taiwan.
It was the longest day and the shortest night.
It proved a fact that<summer was hot and long>.
A boy of summer solstice was inspecting rice wheather full of ears.
A curve rice was a symbol for full ears of rice.
Dropping ears of rice promised good harvest.
It implied that people lowered head to thank god to give harvest.
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