What does autumn mean?

The custom of old age. Popular in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, Huaihe River Basin, Yangtze River Basin and other places. I hope to have a symbolic activity of children.

In many areas of our country, the custom of touching autumn is popular at the Mid-Autumn Festival evening.

According to Liang Shaoren's "Two Kinds of Autumn Rain _ Essays" in Qing Dynasty, it is recorded that: "Women go out in autumn night, each picking melons in Gua Tian, and the male is a good omen, which is called touching autumn." Those women who are childless after marriage will take advantage of the moonlight on the Mid-Autumn Festival night, accompanied by their sister-in-law or other female companions, and steal melons and beans from other people's fields.

Because according to folklore, whoever touches a pumpkin can give birth to a boy, because "south" is homophonic with "male", and touching lentils can give birth to a girl, because lentils are also called "pea slices". And this night, the owner of melon beans not only did not blame "stealing", but enjoyed it.