When will you come in the autumn of 2023?

At 2: 22 on August 8, 2023, 4 1 sec ushered in the beginning of the autumn solar term and officially entered the autumn.

Autumn is the harvest season, and people have the custom of offering sacrifices to the land gods and celebrating the harvest. Eating autumn melons: In the south, beginning of autumn has the custom of eating autumn melons. Eat more watermelons in autumn to prevent autumn dryness and form a custom for a long time. The History of the Capital published in the Republic of China records that the day before beginning of autumn, watermelons were called "eating autumn" to welcome the arrival of autumn.

In early autumn, it is popular to weigh people with hanging scales, compare them with those in long summer, test whether they are fat or thin, and lose weight in bitter summer. At that time, people often judged health only by being fat and thin. Of course, if you lose weight, you need to make up. The remedy is to put on autumn fertilizer. Sunbathing in autumn is a typical agricultural custom phenomenon with strong regional characteristics. On the day before beginning of autumn, Chen Bing had the customs of eating melons, steaming eggplant and frying fragrant incense.

The beginning of autumn correlation

On this day in beginning of autumn, people will have the custom of eating watermelon, which is called eating autumn. An old man said that after this day, you can't eat watermelon any more. Therefore, when people are in beginning of autumn, they will buy a watermelon to go home and the whole family will chew around it, which means eating autumn. Beginning of autumn, which means that summer gets cooler and autumn begins, is a solar term reflecting the seasons. Beginning of autumn represents the beginning, and autumn refers to the maturity of crops.

Therefore, beginning of autumn not only indicates that hot summer is coming, autumn is coming, but also indicates that vegetation is beginning to bear fruit, crops in the field are beginning to mature, and the harvest season is coming. At this time, the climate is gradually gathering yang qi, the yin qi is getting longer and longer, the yin and yang qi begins to change, and everything begins to mature from lush with the sinking of yang qi (the above contents are for reference only).