When is the autumn equinox?

The autumnal equinox in 2023 is September 23rd.

The autumnal equinox is the midpoint of three months (about 90 days) in autumn. "Fen" in "Autumn Equinox" means "half". The autumnal equinox falls after September 23rd of the Gregorian calendar every year. When the earth reaches 180 degrees, the autumnal equinox in 2023 is September 23rd. On this day, the sun shines almost directly on the equator of the earth, and the length of day and night is equal all over the world. In the autumn equinox, most parts of China have entered a cool autumn. The cold air from the south meets the gradually decaying warm and humid air, which causes repeated precipitation and the temperature drops again and again.

The autumnal equinox is the sixteenth of the twenty-four solar terms. On the autumnal equinox, day and night are equal, and then the longer the night, the shorter the day. After the autumnal equinox, the direct point of the sun continued to move from the equator to the southern hemisphere, and the days in the northern hemisphere began to shorten and the nights became longer, that is, the days in a day began to be shorter than the nights; The southern hemisphere is the opposite. The autumnal equinox used to be the traditional "Festival of Sacrificing the Moon". For example, in ancient times, there was a saying that "the sun is sacrificed in spring and the moon is sacrificed in autumn". Mid-Autumn Festival comes from the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival.

The custom of autumnal equinox

1, eat autumn vegetables

In Lingnan area, there is an unbroken custom called "eating autumn vegetables in the autumn equinox" in Xie, a town in Cangcheng, Kaiping, which is located in Siyi (now taking Heshan as Wuyi). "Autumn vegetable" is a kind of wild amaranth, which villagers call "autumn Artemisia". On the autumnal equinox, the whole village went to pick autumn vegetables. When searching in the wild, it is often green and thin, about the length of a palm. Picked autumn vegetables are usually boiled with fish fillets at home, which is called "autumn soup".

Step 2 worship god

The folk festivals around the autumnal equinox are: February 15 is Zhang Kai's birthday; Wang Sheng, also known as "Chen", was a warrior in the Tang Dynasty, who made contributions to Zhangzhou and became the patron saint of Zhangzhou after his death. February 19 is the birthday of Guanyin Bodhisattva. Every birthday, many believers will go to Guanyin Temple to worship.

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