What are the holiday customs in beginning of autumn?

What is the custom in beginning of autumn?

Beginning of autumn Festival, also known as July Festival. Time begins on August 7th or 8th of the Gregorian calendar every year. During the Zhou Dynasty, the Japanese Emperor personally led princes and doctors from three counties and six counties to the western suburbs to welcome autumn, and held a ceremony of offering sacrifices to Shao Hao and Ru Shou (see "Ritual Sacrifice and Moon Order"). The Han Dynasty still inherited this custom. History of Sacrifice in the Later Han Dynasty: "On the day of beginning of autumn, the western suburbs welcomed autumn and offered sacrifices to Bai Di Ru Shou. The flag was white, and the song "Song Zi" and the Bashu dance "Yu Ming" were performed. The son of heaven went into the nursery to shoot sacrifices to recommend the ceremony of the ancestral temple, and named it Woshen Liu. Killing animals as sacrifices shows Qiu Lai's intention to promote martial arts. "

In the Tang Dynasty, on the day of beginning of autumn, five emperors were sacrificed. The Book of the New Tang Dynasty: "Five emperors are worshipped in the suburbs of beginning of winter, beginning of autumn." In the Song Dynasty, on that day in beginning of autumn, both men and women wore catalpa leaves to match the time sequence. There is the custom of cutting and carving the petals of heather red leaves and inserting them into temples, and there is also the custom of swallowing seven small red beans with autumn water (see Lin 'an Years), which obviously inherits the Song custom. In the Qing Dynasty, on the day when the Mid-Autumn Festival began, people were hung on scales and weighed, and compared with the number of people who weighed in summer to test their obesity in summer. Since the Republic of China, in the vast rural areas, people used to predict the hot and cold weather in beginning of autumn during the day or at night. There is also the custom of tasting new things and offering sacrifices to ancestors with watermelons and green beans. On the day before beginning of autumn, Chen Bing had the customs of eating melons, steaming eggplant and frying fragrant incense.

When you arrive in beginning of autumn, the plane tree will definitely begin to shed its leaves, which is why there is an idiom "Leaves fall to the roots". Autumn includes six solar terms: beginning of autumn, Chushu, Bailu, Autumnal Equinox, Cold Dew and First Frost. This is a transitional season from hot to cold and then from cold to cold.