Abstract: Against the background of climate warming， rice production is facing the challenge of heat stress， which threatens its growth， development， and yield formation. To address this challenge， it is necessary to summarize the effects of sowing date on rice growth and yield as well as adaptation strategies to high temperature， aiming to mitigate the adverse effects of high temperature on rice production by optimizing sowing date， and to provide scientific basis and referen-ce for increasing and stabilizing rice yield under high temperature conditions. This paper took rice as the research object， systematically reviewed the research progress on rice growth， development， and yield formation under different sowing dates， and deeply explored high temperature adaptation strategies and the selection of suitable sowing dates under hot weather conditions. The study found that changes in sowing date led to differences in meteorological conditions during the rice growth period， which greatly affected the efficiency of rice in utilizing temperature and light resources， the length of each growth stage， and the accumulation， transport and distribution of dry matter. Advancing or delaying the sowing date also affected yield component factors such as effective panicle number， grain number per panicle， seed setting rate， and thousand-grain weight， altered the source-sink structure of rice， and thus influenced yield formation. In response to the damage to rice growth， physiology， and yield caused by heat stress， appropriate mitigation measures could be adopted： breeding heat-tolerant rice varieties， improving water and fertilizer management practices， applying exogenous growth regulators， and regulating sowing date. In early rice regions such as regions south of the Yangtze River and southern China， advancing the sowing date could avoid high temperature during the grain-filling stage； in middle-late rice regions such as Jiangsu and Hubei， appropriately delaying the sowing date could avoid the high-temperature window at the heading stage； while in Jiangxi， differentiated adjustments were needed according to the characteristics of the rice season. In view of current research gaps， future studies should increase systematic research on rice varieties with different growth durations across multiple ecological regions， deeply explore the effects of sowing date on physiological processes such as photosynthetic performance， hormone regulation， and stress resistance， clarify the sowing date effect under high temperature background， and facilitate the selection of suitable sowing dates for different ecological regions， thereby refining regionally adaptive and precise sowing date windows. To address the threat of high temperature， it is necessary to establish a dynamic sowing date optimization system based on climate scenarios by integrating climate prediction， rice growth models， and high temperature warning models. At the same time， sowing date regulation should be combined with optimized water and fertilizer management， breeding of heat-tolerant rice varieties， and application of exogenous growth regulators to achieve synergy between avoidance and tolerance， thereby ensuring stable and high rice yields.