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What are the customs and habits in your hometown when you are in beginning of autumn?

The most famous custom in early autumn is to weigh yourself. Weigh yourself on this day and compare it with your weight in the long summer, so that you can see your appetite and make up for the loss of appetite because it is too hot in summer. Beginning of autumn customs in every hometown and place are basically different. For example, in some areas, such as Shandong and Sichuan, dregs made from bean products are very popular. Let the children eat, there is a saying among them, eating the dregs of beginning of autumn, adults and children don't spit or pull.

In our hometown, beginning of autumn is going to worship the land god. This custom actually existed a long time ago. Because for us farmers, autumn is the harvest season. In our primary school textbooks, we know that we sow in spring and harvest in autumn, because autumn is the time for us farmers to recover crops, and it is also the happiest time for us and the harvest time for farmers' uncles. Therefore, on this day, we basically worship the land god to thank the land god for his gratitude and care this year, which is also a good year.

In other places, when you are in early autumn, longan, or longan meat as the saying goes, is very popular. Because when I was in early autumn, it was the rich period of longan in Taiwan Province Province. I believe that longan meat is a particularly meaningful fruit in their place, also called Fuyuan, because it looks full, so it is very lucky. The main moral is to let people who will eat longan meat be promoted to a higher position, become big officials and win the first prize. There are also some places that are very romantic. When they start in autumn, they will pray for lanterns and make a wish for good weather this year and next, so as to make the country prosperous and people safe.

There are many areas in the south. When you are in beginning of autumn, you must eat watermelon once. When you eat watermelon, it means the weather will get cold. When you eat watermelon for the last time, you will stop eating watermelon in early autumn. It is their unique customs and habits.