What season is it now? August 2023.

August 2023 is summer in the meteorological sense, but it is actually autumn.

August 8, 2023 will usher in the beginning of autumn solar term. Beginning of autumn is 13 of the 24 solar terms in China and 1 solar terms in autumn. The arrival of beginning of autumn means that the season of Meng and Qiu officially begins, and everything begins to mature from luxuriance, and the harvest season has arrived. The beginning of autumn is not the end of hot weather. After beginning of autumn, there are hot days and summer solar terms. Strictly speaking, it is cool autumn only if the average daily temperature drops below 22℃ for five consecutive days.

The summer heat in early autumn has not disappeared. People call the hot weather after the beginning of autumn "autumn tiger", which means that the hot weather is like a tiger, and the duration of autumn tiger varies from half a month to two months every year. If the autumn tiger lasts for a long time in early autumn, it means that it is very hot after beginning of autumn, but it is cool on the contrary.

Introduce the customs and habits of beginning of autumn;

1, eat autumn melon

This is a custom at the beginning of autumn, which expresses people's expectations and prayers for the autumn harvest. In early autumn, although the weather is very hot, the older generation will eat some watermelons.

2. Busy meetings in autumn

It is a business and trade conference to welcome the busy autumn, usually held in July and August of the lunar calendar. Combined with the temple fair, there is also a single trade meeting for the busy autumn. The scale of the autumn busy meeting is the same as that of the summer busy meeting, including mule market, grain market, farm tools production market, cloth market, Beijing-Guangzhou grocery market and so on. Nowadays, this kind of gathering is called "economic and trade exchange meeting". During the meeting, there will be cultural performances, horse racing, monkey tricks and other cultural programs to entertain.