Beginning of autumn solar terms custom

The customs of solar terms in beginning of autumn are: offering sacrifices to the earth gods, eating autumn melons, putting autumn fertilizer and basking in autumn.

1, Sacrifice to the Land God: Autumn is the harvest season, and there is a folk custom of offering sacrifices to the Land God to celebrate the harvest.

2. Eat autumn melons: In the south, beginning of autumn has the custom of eating autumn melons. On this day in autumn, it is a long-standing custom to eat more watermelons to prevent autumn dryness. According to The Chronicle of the Capital published during the Republic of China, beginning of autumn ate watermelon the day before, which meant eating autumn, and it also meant welcoming the arrival of autumn.

3. Sticking autumn fat: It is popular among the people to weigh people by hanging scales in early autumn and compare them with those in long summer to test their obesity. Losing weight is a hard summer. At that time, people often judged their health only by their fatness. Of course, if you lose weight, you need to make up. The remedy is to put on autumn fertilizer.

4. Sunbathing in autumn: Sunbathing in autumn is a typical agricultural custom phenomenon with strong regional characteristics. Villagers living in mountainous areas such as Hunan, Guangxi, Anhui and Jiangxi. It has become a traditional agricultural custom to use the roof in front of the house and the window sill to hang crops.

Meteorological change

The beginning of autumn doesn't mean the end of hot weather. After beginning of autumn, there was a solar term in summer. Beginning of autumn is still hot, but it hasn't come out yet. The second solar term comes out in autumn, and the weather is still very hot in early autumn. As the saying goes, the heat is at three volts. According to the calculation method of dog days, beginning of autumn is often still in the period of dog days from summer to summer, and dog days involve four solar terms: summer, beginning of autumn and long summer.

In the dog days of July and August, the subtropical high was strong, which controlled most parts of eastern China. Under the control of subtropical high, the weather is sunny and hot, so it is extremely hot in dog days, so it is also the hottest period of the year. According to its climatic characteristics, the autumn sun is like fire, and in the midsummer of beginning of autumn, many areas are still in the heat. Beginning of autumn is the third hot solar term among the 24 solar terms, second only to Daxia and Xiaoxia.