What are the traditional customs of the autumn equinox?

Lead: Autumn is not only the season when poets love to sing, but also the season of harvest. The autumnal equinox is a solar term that divides autumn equally, and people attach great importance to it, so people have formed various autumnal equinox customs. Let's look at the traditional customs of the autumnal equinox.

1. Drink autumn soup

In the countryside, there are different customs everywhere. Every autumn equinox in the countryside, the family always goes to the fields to pick some wild vegetables and make "autumn soup" in order to "cleanse the stomach and pray"!

2. Celebrate the harvest and sacrifice the autumn ceremony

In the past, there were ceremonies to worship heaven at four o'clock, and autumn was mainly to celebrate the harvest. In addition, near the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is also a saying of "Mid-Autumn Festival".

Talking about autumn

There is a custom of saying autumn in the countryside. On the day of the autumnal equinox, the old people in the village will go door to door, talk about customs, do some farm work and send autumn blessings!

4. Autumn outing

After the autumnal equinox, the weather turns cool and the air is crisp in autumn, which is also the most suitable time for outing in a year. It's also interesting to see mountains everywhere!

5. Send autumn cattle

The autumnal equinox and solar terms, as well as the custom of sending out autumn cattle pictures from door to door. Printing the annual lunar solar terms and farmers' ploughing plans on red paper or yellow paper is called "Autumn Cattle Map". The picture sender said something about autumn ploughing and good luck that did not violate the farming season. Although it comes out casually, every sentence is melodious, commonly known as "autumn", until the owner is happy to give money.

6. Vertical eggs

When the autumnal equinox comes, eggs are beautiful. Every spring or autumn equinox, tens of millions of people in many parts of China are doing "vertical egg" experiments. Choose a "symmetrical" fresh egg and put it softly on the table. Although there are many losers and many winners, the erected eggs are beautiful.

7. Stick the sparrow's mouth

On the day of the autumnal equinox, farmers have a holiday according to the custom, and every household should eat jiaozi. In jiaozi, glutinous rice is the main raw material, and other ingredients are added. The added ingredients are often high in sugar and calories, which helps to supplement the human body's heat energy, tonify deficiency, regulate blood, strengthen yang and strengthen the spleen. Farmer friends also need to cook a dozen or twenty or thirty jiaozi without wrapping their hearts, and put them on the ridges of outdoor fields with thin bamboo forks. This is called sticking sparrows' mouths to avoid damaging crops.