What are the folk customs of solar terms in beginning of autumn?

Folk customs of solar terms in beginning of autumn: autumn touch, autumn busy meeting, autumn harvest mutual assistance, autumn entertainment, autumn eating, autumn fat paste, autumn society, etc. Touching autumn: According to the traditional custom, the childless women after marriage, accompanied by their sister-in-law or other female companions, secretly grope for melons and beans in the field under the melon rack 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 have girls.

Autumn Busy Meeting: usually held in July and August of the lunar calendar, it is a business meeting to prepare for autumn busy. There are mule and horse markets, grain markets, farm tools production markets, cloth markets and Beijing-Guangzhou grocery markets. During the meeting, there were also cultural performances, horse racing, monkey tricks and other cultural programs. Autumn harvest mutual assistance: Due to the busy farming in autumn, 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.

Akita Entertainment: In autumn, especially before and after the autumn harvest, the agriculture is busy and the autumn harvest is very busy! However, there is fun in busy work. When corn, millet and millet grow up, it is common for some teenagers and teenagers to play in the fields, especially when the corn grows to one person's height and heads first.

"Chewing autumn": It 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. 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 Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places, beginning of autumn eats watermelon and soju every day, which is believed by the people to prevent malaria.