What does summer mean in India?

"Autumn Tiger" and "Xiaoyangchun" are both special expressions in Chinese, so how to express "a warm weather in late autumn" in English? In fact, there is a corresponding phrase in English, "Summer in India".

"Indian summer" refers to a warm and dry weather in autumn, which often appears in late September, 10 and10, sometimes in August or 12. Poe once called it "the strange interval that occupies autumn".

The "Indian" in Indian Summer definitely does not refer to India, but refers to the native Indians of America, because such weather appears in the central States on the east coast of the United States, from New England in the north to the Great Plains in the west. This kind of weather is often accompanied by disastrous fog.

"Summer in India" first appeared in a book by a French-American in 1778. He wrote in a farm describing the colony, "Then a severe frost followed, and the land was ready to accept the volatile snow coat that followed; Although there is usually a short interval of smoke and warmth before this, it is called Indian summer.

Then why did he mention the word "smoke" in his article? There is a saying that Indians came up with the word "smoke" in order to drive hidden prey out of the hole with torches before winter comes, or burn all the weeds in the cultivated land with torches for the next spring ploughing. In his "The Story of Uneven Mountains", Poe also mentioned the word "smoke" ("thick and strange mist or smoke that distinguishes Indian summer"), which increased the credibility of this statement.

Philip Doddridge provided another way of saying "smoke" in his notes on the Indian War in West Virginia (1842). He wrote, "The haze has already started, and it will continue for some time. This kind of weather is called Indian summer, because this kind of Koharu weather provides opportunities for Indians to harass people in immigrant areas. " ("The smoky time began and lasted for quite a long time. This is the summer in India, because it is another opportunity for the wrong Indians to visit their settlements of destructive wars. " Because except for this warm weather, the Indians stopped raiding the immigrant areas after the cold weather. Then "smoke" is the result of Indians burning villages and houses.

Which of these statements is correct, or you have to choose for yourself, because these are all folk statements.

In Britain, people also began to use Indian summer instead of St. Luke's Summer, St. Martin's Summer and All Saints' Summer to represent autumn tiger and spring. For example, "an Indian summer in the west of England brought a holiday traffic jam peak in Devon yesterday" (Sunday Times, September 16, 1962).