When does the grain ripen?

Autumn is the season of grain ripening and harvest.

Beginning of autumn solar terms mean the beginning of autumn, the harvest season and the beginning of beginning of autumn. Beginning of autumn is the node where yang gradually closes, yin gradually grows, and yang gradually turns into yin. In early autumn, precipitation and humidity tend to decrease or decrease, and everything begins to mature from lush. The leaves of vegetation changed from green to yellow, and the leaves began to fall, and the crops began to mature.

Beginning of autumn is the thirteenth of the twenty-four solar terms, and it is the beginning of autumn. The bucket refers to the southwest, and the sun reaches the longitude of 135, and it is celebrated on August 7 or 8 of the Gregorian calendar every year. The change of the whole nature is a gradual process. According to the order of solar terms, beginning of autumn is followed by summer, and autumn is the second solar term "Summer comes" (the last summer). Twenty-four solar terms include "three summers", namely, little summer, big summer and midsummer. There is also a "beginning of autumn" solar term in the middle of the "three summers", and the last summer is after beginning of autumn.

Basic information

Both dog days and "dog days" represent hot and extremely hot weather. "Dog days" involve four solar terms: Summer Day, Summer Day, Autumn Day and Summer Day. Among the 24 solar terms, the days in summer are longer. Beginning of autumn means precipitation, humidity, etc. It is at the turning point of the year and tends to decrease or decline. Since beginning of autumn, the sun be the spirit gradually closed, and everything was restrained.

Beginning of autumn, together with beginning of spring, Changxia and beginning of winter, is called "Sili", and it is also one of the four seasons and eight festivals in ancient times. Autumn is the season of grain ripening and harvest. At the beginning of autumn, there was a custom of offering sacrifices to the land gods and celebrating the harvest in ancient times. There are also customs such as "pasting autumn fertilizer and biting autumn". In the traditional method of dividing the four seasons, the starting point of the four seasons is "Li Si" in the 24 solar terms, so beginning of autumn is the starting point of autumn.