What are the characteristics and customs of solar terms in beginning of autumn?

1, beginning of autumn solar festival custom: posting autumn fat.

There is a folk saying: early autumn comes, autumn is fat, winter goes, and spring is good. It is said that people should eat more meat after freezing in cold weather to supplement the deficiency caused by poor appetite and sweating in dog days and improve immunity. However, many netizens said that life is no longer what it used to be. They eat well on weekdays and pay attention to maintenance in summer, so beginning of autumn doesn't need special complementary food that day.

2. beginning of autumn solar festival custom: eating autumn peaches.

In beginning of autumn, adults and children should eat autumn peaches, one for each person, and keep the stone after eating. On New Year's Eve, the peach pit was thrown into the stove and burned to ashes. It is thought that this will save the plague for a year.

3. beginning of autumn solar festival custom: hanging scales to weigh people.

In Jiaxing in Qing dynasty, it was popular to weigh children by hanging scales on this day, and then compare them with the weight in long summer to measure their fatness. Losing weight is called "bitter summer". At that time, people thought that since they had lost weight, they needed to "make up for it", which is what beginning of autumn commonly called "putting on autumn weight".

4. beginning of autumn solar festival custom: Eat "Fuyuan". Longan is also called "Fuyuan".

5. beginning of autumn solar festival custom: eat small red beans.

Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, red beans have been served with well water every early autumn. Take seven to fourteen small red beans and swallow them with well water, facing west when taking them, so it is said that dysentery can be avoided in autumn. People have the custom of predicting whether the weather will be cold or hot when they are in beginning of autumn. Cui Yan's "Four-person Monthly Order" in the Eastern Han Dynasty: "Welcome to beginning of autumn, it is chilly; In the autumn night, it is hot to the end. "

6. beginning of autumn solar festival custom: eat watermelon.

The custom of eating watermelon every day in beginning of autumn is called eating autumn. This day in beginning of autumn is often the last time to eat watermelon this year-people think that after beginning of autumn, the weather will get cold in the morning and evening, and eating cold food will have an impact on the stomach, so they stopped eating watermelon after beginning of autumn.