The meaning and symbol of beginning of autumn.

The moral and symbol of beginning of autumn:

The moral of beginning of autumn is the beginning of autumn, and the harvest season is coming soon. The most obvious change in autumn is that the leaves of vegetation change from lush green to yellow, leaves begin to fall and crops begin to mature. Beginning of autumn is one of the "four seasons and eight festivals" in ancient times. Occasionally, there are customs such as offering sacrifices to land gods, celebrating harvest, releasing autumn fertilizer, biting autumn and gnawing autumn.

Beginning of autumn symbolizes that everything begins to mature from exuberance, while beginning of autumn has a gradual decline in yang and a gradual increase in yin. After beginning of autumn, rainfall, storms, humidity, etc. It is at the turning point of the year and tends to decline or decrease. In nature, the qi of yin and yang began to change, and everything sank with the sun, so it began to move from lush to mature.

Beginning of autumn is the 13th of the 24 solar terms and the first solar term in autumn, which marks the official start of the Qiu Meng season: "Autumn" means cool summer. When we arrived in beginning of autumn, the phoenix tree began to shed its leaves, so there is an idiom "Autumn is known by falling leaves". From the writing point of view, "autumn" is composed of grains and characters, indicating that the valley is mature. Autumn is a transitional season when the weather turns from hot to cold, and then from cold to cold, but it doesn't mean that beginning of autumn has entered autumn.

Phenological phenomenon

Some ancient literary works in China divide beginning of autumn into three periods: one is waiting for the cool breeze; Second, wait for the white deer to be born; Three are waiting for cicadas to sing. This means that after beginning of autumn, people will feel cool when it is windy, and the wind at this time is different from the hot air in summer; Then, there will be fog on the ground in the morning, and cicadas will begin to sing in autumn when they feel gloomy.

In fact, in most parts of our country, the period from beginning of autumn to the summer heat is rather sultry, and there is no such phenomenon as cool breeze, dew and chilling sound during this period. According to the order of the twenty-four solar terms, there is a solar term of summertime after beginning of autumn, which means summertime, but it hasn't been summertime in beginning of autumn. The so-called "heat is in the dog days", which involves four solar terms: summer, summer, beginning of autumn and early summer, and is the period with the highest temperature, humidity and sultry weather in a year.