Beginning of autumn, what?

At the beginning of the autumn festival, there are folk customs of offering sacrifices to the land gods to celebrate the harvest, and there are also customs of "pasting autumn fertilizer" and "biting autumn". There is a custom of "beginning of autumn gnawing at autumn melons" in the south, which is used to prevent autumn dryness and welcome the arrival of autumn. Beginning of autumn will also bask in autumn, a typical agricultural custom phenomenon with strong regional characteristics. In the vast rural areas, there is also the custom of tasting new things with watermelons and mung beans and offering sacrifices to ancestors.

Beginning of autumn is the first 13 of the 24 solar terms and the first solar term in autumn, which falls on August 7-9 of the Gregorian calendar every year.

Beginning of autumn means precipitation, humidity, etc. It is at the turning point of the year and tends to decline or decrease.

Beginning of autumn is still in the heat period, and the heat will not come out until the second solar term (summer) in autumn, and the weather is still hot in early autumn. After entering autumn, the climate changed from rainy and humid in summer to dry and rainy in autumn.