What solar term is the autumnal equinox?

The autumnal equinox is the fourth solar term in autumn.

The arrival of the autumnal equinox indicates that autumn is getting stronger and stronger, indicating that most parts of China have entered a cool autumn, and then the temperature gradually drops and becomes colder.

The autumnal equinox season is already an autumn solar term, which is a transitional solar term. As soon as this solar term arrived in many areas, the temperature began to get lower. When the cold air from the south meets the gradually decaying warm and humid air, the rainfall will take away the heat on the ground and lower the surface temperature. Therefore, after the autumnal equinox, the weather will gradually turn cold, and the temperature difference at night will gradually widen. After the autumnal equinox, the direct point of the sun began to enter the southern hemisphere from the equator, and the northern hemisphere began to have shorter days and longer nights, and the day began to be shorter than the night in a day.

The custom of autumnal equinox

1, send autumn cattle

When the autumnal equinox solar term comes, people send pictures of autumn cows door to door. In fact, sending autumn cattle is to print the annual lunar solar terms on red paper or yellow paper, and also print the farmer's farming pattern, which is called "Autumn Cattle Map". The people who send pictures are folk singers, who mainly say that autumn ploughing is auspicious and not against the farming season. Every time they go to a house, they improvise what they see until the owner is happy to give money. Although the words spoken are casual, every sentence rhymes beautifully. Commonly known as "Autumn", Qiu Ren is called "Qiu Guan".

2, vertical eggs

Every autumn equinox, tens of millions of people all over the world are doing "vertical egg" experiments. How this toy, called "China Custom", became a "world game" is still difficult to verify. However, the game is simple and interesting: choose a smooth and symmetrical fresh egg that has just been born for four or five days, gently stand it up and put it on the table. Although there are many losers, there are also many winners.