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What is the proverb that autumn begins?

Standing, like a person standing in the shape of the earth; Autumn, the original meaning is the maturity of the grain. Therefore, beginning of autumn is the solar term that farmers are most concerned about. In the solar terms in beginning of autumn, the proverbs that remind people to pay attention to farming are:

"In early autumn, buckwheat blooms with white dew, and cold dew is received by buckwheat."

"beginning of autumn picks peppers, white dew hits walnuts, the first frost picks persimmons, and beginning of autumn hits soft dates."

"The head is covered with sesame seeds and beans. After the late rice is planted in early autumn."

"beginning of autumn grows sesame seeds and dies of old age without flowering."

Beginning of autumn is also a sign of bumper harvest, that is, "autumn is not cool, seeds are not yellow", "beginning of autumn is full of yellow on the 10th" and "beginning of autumn is full of grass on the 18th". In some areas, there is a saying that "everything harvests when it rains in beginning of autumn, and everyone is worried when it doesn't rain in beginning of autumn", because "beginning of autumn is empty when it doesn't rain, and everything is always half harvested".

Beginning of autumn is also a long period when the yang disappears and the yin disappears. Therefore, people attach great importance to autumn health preservation. The easiest thing to do is "beginning of autumn abandons the fan." When the weather is cold, we should also pay attention to "the white dew is not exposed, and we should swim less after autumn". In terms of diet and daily life. The ancients thought that "autumn should be harvested rather than scattered" and that "autumn should not eat spicy food" and "autumn should not eat lungs"; It is also necessary to "go to bed early and get up early, and the chickens will flourish", that is, go to bed early and conform to the convergence of yang, and get up early to stretch the lungs.

Beginning of autumn Festival in different places also has different dietary customs: Beijing insists on autumn fat (eating meat), Shandong eats dregs (tofu), Shenyang eats jiaozi, Jinhua eats cakes, Taiwan Province eats Fuyuan (longan) and Sichuan eats hot pot. Other places have customs such as eating eggs and autumn peaches.