Suzhou Autumn Time 202 1

Suzhou is usually in beginning of autumn at the end of August, and in the meteorological sense, half of it is in the end of September 10.

At the end of August, people who have endured the heat always look forward to the early arrival of a crisp autumn day. There have been showers from time to time in Suzhou these days, and the temperature has dropped. The highest temperature has been maintained at around 32℃, which is really cool. Has autumn arrived yet? "Meteorologically, autumn has not really arrived.

The beginning of autumn does not mean the end of hot weather. As the saying goes, "the summer heat is in dog days", according to the calculation method of "dog days", beginning of autumn is often in dog days until the summer heat, so the weather is still very hot in early autumn, and it will generally get cold after the Millennium solar terms. The climate in autumn is divided into two stages, the early autumn is sultry, and the climate tends to be dry and cool after the Mid-Autumn Festival.

From the analysis of meteorological historical data, Suzhou will not really enter autumn until late September. Meteorologists from Suzhou Meteorological Observatory said that the rain cooling in Suzhou a few days ago was not caused by typhoon parrots, nor was autumn coming, but because Suzhou was at the bottom of subtropical high and was affected by the infiltration of weak cold air in the north, which was a strong convective weather in summer.

On this day in beginning of autumn, there is a tradition of grabbing autumn fertilizer in Northeast China. The so-called "autumn fertilizer" is jiaozi. In early autumn, every household in Northeast China will eat jiaozi. I rob you of your food and you take mine, which shows that you have a strong body in autumn and can make up for the energy and vitality lost in summer.

Biting autumn is eating melons. People in the northeast of China believe that eating melons on this day in beginning of autumn can avoid many diseases in winter and spring. There is such a record in Zhang Dao's "Customs of Tianjin Miscellaneous Notes at the Age of Years" in the Qing Dynasty: "beginning of autumn can avoid diarrhea by eating melons and biting autumn."

People will put eggplant, melon and sweet glutinous rice in the air the day before the solar term in beginning of autumn, and then eat them on the same day. It is said that this can clear away heat and relieve summer heat and avoid diseases.