What does the proverb "The Millennium is charming and the autumn equinox is beautiful" mean?

The Bailu solar term is an important node of alternating cold and warm weather in China. After the arrival of the Millennium solar term, most parts of China were gradually affected by the northwest inland dry monsoon, and the weather gradually changed from hot to cold. In dog days, the southeast winds from the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean will gradually weaken, and the weather will begin to change from humid and sultry to cool and dry autumn.

The Millennium is coming. What does the rural proverb "Millennium is charming, and the autumn equinox shows rice" mean?

After the arrival of the Millennium solar terms, I will feel a little cold at night. Especially the autumn wind will obviously feel a little dry. After 40 days of dog days, the crisp autumn weather people expected really came after the Millennium. At this time, the longitude of the sun has reached 165 degrees, and the summer monsoon is gradually replaced by the winter monsoon.

The arrival of the Millennium is also a busy season for autumn harvest everywhere. The autumnal equinox is busy for thousands of years, not cutting rice but dating. And "the white dew is charming, and the autumn equinox shows rice together" means that if there is dew before and after the white dew, then the late rice we planted will usher in a better harvest. There is dew in the morning around the Millennium, which shows that this solar term comes at the right time, and this is that rice has enough growth time and the rice grains are fuller.

In the Millennium, the southern region began to enter the rice harvest season, and soon, it was time for people to pick cotton and harvest dates in the northern region. Why is there dew around the Millennium, which has a great influence on the harvest of late rice? Because of the last critical stage of the late rice ripening season, rice water absorption has become the last critical stage. Dew at night and in the morning can make more rice grains absorb water and promote nutrient transport.

Therefore, before and after the white dew, people hope to see thick dew at night or in the morning. Such a bumper harvest year will follow, which will promote rice harvest to some extent. At the same time, it is often said that "if you don't bow your head for a thousand years, you will be cut down and fed to the old cow (late rice)".

It means that there is no dew in the white dew, and there is no dew hanging on the leaves and weeds (if you don't bow your head), then there will be no rice harvest. You might as well just cut it and feed it to the old cows at home.