Draft:Sixth Lunar Month

jixia is the sixth lunar month of the Chinese calendar 季夏

Ritual process
An ancient procedural instruction for invoking five-colored dragons to conduct rainmaking rites occurs in the Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals, under its "Seeking Rain" chapter (originally 2nd century B.C.). It prescribes earthenware figurines of greater and lesser dragons of a specific color according to season, namely blue-green, red, yellow, white, black, depending on whether it was spring, summer, late summer (jixia), autumn, or winter. And these figures were to be placed upon the alter at the assigned position/direction (east, south, center, west, or north).