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

Updated: 2015-07-06 17:36

(Chinaculture.org)

Fireflies. [File Photo]

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.