What are the customs of 15 in beginning of autumn?

The customs in early autumn mainly include:

1, paste autumn fat

In early autumn, people are popular to weigh themselves with hanging scales and compare them with those in long summer. Because people have no appetite in summer and the food is light and simple. After two or three months, there will usually be big trouble: most of them have to lose weight. With the autumn wind, my appetite is wide open. I want to eat something good, supplement some nutrition and make up for the loss in summer. The remedy is to "paste autumn fat": on this day in beginning of autumn, all kinds of meat, such as stew, barbecue, braised pork and so on. "Paste the fat and meat together".

2, gnawing autumn

"Eating autumn" is also called "biting autumn" in some places. Tianjin pays attention to eating watermelon or cantaloupe in beginning of autumn, which means "biting autumn", which means that the hot summer is unbearable. Take a bite when you get to beginning of autumn. If you use the current buzzword, it is called hold. Jiangsu and other places also eat watermelon to "bite the autumn" in beginning of autumn. It is said that prickly heat in autumn can be avoided.

In Zhejiang and other places, beginning of autumn's daily habits of eating watermelon and shochu are thought to prevent malaria. It was beginning of autumn that day. People in the city bought a watermelon and went home. The whole family gathered around to chew watermelon. It was autumn. Country people are much bolder when they eat autumn. They sat in groups on the floor in the melon shed and under the shade, holding red watermelons, green watermelons, whisked sweet potatoes and golden corn cobs. Eating autumn in a good mood is actually a joy of harvest.

3. Autumn House

Autumn society was originally a day to worship the land god in autumn, which began in Han Dynasty. Later generations set the Autumn Festival on the fifth day after beginning of autumn. At this time, the goal of bumper harvest has been completed, and the government and people have sacrificed to God to show their gratitude. In Song Shiqiu society, there were customs of eating cakes, drinking wine and women visiting their mothers. Tang Han Wo's poem "No See": "I am willing to be a royal swallow, and the autumn society will not return." In some places, there are still sayings of "running a cooperative", "respecting the god of the cooperative" and "cooking porridge for the cooperative".

4. Touch autumn

August 15th of the lunar calendar is the Mid-Autumn Festival. That night, the childless woman after marriage, accompanied by her sister-in-law or other female companions, secretly groped for melons and beans in the fields under the fruit stand and bean shed, hence the name "Touching Autumn". It is often said that touching pumpkins is easy to have boys; Touching lentils is easy to give birth to girls; Touching white lentils is more auspicious, besides giving birth to girls, it is a good sign to grow old together.

5. Busy meetings in autumn

Autumn busy meeting is usually held in July and August of the lunar calendar, which is a business meeting to prepare for autumn busy. Some are held in conjunction with temple fairs, and some are specially held for the lively autumn. Its goal is to exchange production tools, sell livestock and exchange food and daily necessities. Its scale is the same as that of Summer Busy Fair, including mule and horse market, grain market, farm tools production market, cloth market and Beijing-Guangzhou grocery market. Nowadays, this kind of gathering is called "economic and trade exchange meeting". During the meeting, there will be cultural performances, horse racing, monkey tricks and other cultural programs to entertain.

6, autumn harvest mutual assistance

At the beginning of the autumn harvest, there is a custom of "autumn harvest mutual assistance" in rural areas. You help me, I help you, and go to the fields in small groups to grab mature corn. A corn should be moved four times: the first crop, the second crop, the third crop and the empty crop. Women, old people and teenagers carry bamboo cages in rows, one by one. Don't "black bear break corn, break one and throw one." Instead, put one in a cage, then put it in the corn ear pile on the ground, and finally pull it home by cart. Break off the mature ears and immature ears of the first crop of corn and leave them for the second crop. The second crop and the third crop are broken in the same way. Finally, the empty stubble was fished out, and the remaining ears of corn, old or young, were taken home together. See whose corn matures early, and move it to whom first, so as not to go against the farming season, but also to return the grain to the warehouse.

7. Akita Entertainment Company

Autumn, especially around the autumn harvest, is busy with farming, but autumn planting and autumn harvest are very busy! However, there is fun in busy work. When corn, millet and millet grow up, especially when the corn grows to one person's height and the ear begins to bear fruit, it is common for some teenagers and teenagers to play in the fields. According to the common sense of diet, they break off the ears of tender corn, dig a hole in the ground and leave a chimney, which is a natural earthen stove, then put the ears of tender corn in and collect firewood everywhere. The top flower of tender corn is a good fuel, which is burned by fire. In a short time, the ears of corn in the whole kiln were ripe, and a rich corn feast was held in the field.

Introduction to beginning of autumn:

Beginning of autumn is the 13 solar term in 24 solar terms, the end of the last month of the dry calendar and the beginning of applying for the moon; The time is around the first day of July in the lunar calendar (between August 7 and 9 in the Gregorian calendar). "Autumn" means that summer is cool, which means the beginning of autumn. 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". Literally, the word "autumn" consists of two words: grain and fire, which means that the five grains are ripe. Autumn is the transitional season when the weather turns from hot to cold, and then from cold to cold. Beginning of autumn is the first solar term in autumn.

In the Song Dynasty, the plane trees planted in pots were to be moved into temples. When he arrived in beginning of autumn, Tai Shigong shouted, "Autumn is here." After the play, the phoenix tree dropped one or two leaves to express autumn.