What are the customs and activities of the autumnal equinox?

The custom activities of the autumnal equinox are: cooking jiaozi, eating autumn vegetables, laying eggs, offering sacrifices to the moon and sending autumn cows.

1, dumplings

On the autumnal equinox, there is a custom of cooking jiaozi in many rural areas. People have to cook twenty or thirty jiaozi, and put them on the edge of outdoor fields with thin bamboo forks. This is "sticking the sparrow's mouth", which means not to let the sparrow hurt the crops.

Step 2 eat autumn vegetables

Many places eat wild vegetables called "wild amaranth" in the autumn equinox, and some places also call them "autumn Artemisia", which is the folk custom of "eating autumn vegetables". On the first day of the autumnal equinox, the whole family will pick autumn vegetables. When looking in the field, it is often green and thin, about the size of a palm. Picked autumn vegetables are usually cooked with fish fillets, and the stewed soup is called autumn soup.

3. Vertical eggs

Oviposition is popular not only in the vernal equinox, but also in the autumn equinox. This kind of folk custom is not only common in China, but has even gone abroad to the world. Many countries and regions will have such activities in the autumn equinox.

4. Sacrifice the moon

Worship the sun at vernal equinox and the moon at autumnal equinox. Since ancient times, the autumnal equinox has been the traditional "Festival of Sacrificing the Moon". According to historical records, as early as the Zhou Dynasty, ancient emperors had the custom of offering sacrifices to the sun at the vernal equinox, to the earth at the summer solstice, to the moon at the autumnal equinox, and to heaven at the winter solstice. Its places of worship are called Ritan, Ditan, Yuetan and Tiantan.

5. Send autumn cattle

It is to print the annual lunar solar terms on red paper or yellow paper, and also print the farmer's ploughing pattern, which is called "Autumn Cattle Map". The pictures are all good folk singers, mainly saying that good luck in autumn ploughing is not against farming season.

Every time I went to a house, I was moved by what I saw, and I said whatever I saw until the host was happy to give me money. Although the words are improvised, each sentence has a good rhyme, commonly known as "Autumn" and Qiu Ren is called "Qiu Guan".