What does beginning of autumn symbolize?

Beginning of autumn marks the beginning of autumn.

Beginning of autumn solar term is the 13 solar term in 24 solar terms and the first solar term in autumn, which marks the official start of the Meng-Qiu season: "Autumn" means that summer becomes cool. 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 "valley" and "fire", indicating the maturity of five grains. Autumn is a transitional season when the weather turns from hot to cold, and then from cold to cold, but it doesn't mean that beginning of autumn has entered autumn.

The most obvious change in autumn is that the leaves of vegetation change from lush green to yellow, and the leaves begin to fall and the crops begin to mature. Beginning of autumn is one of the "four seasons and eight festivals" in ancient times. There are folk customs such as offering sacrifices to the land gods, celebrating the harvest, releasing autumn fertilizer, biting autumn and gnawing autumn.

Introduction to beginning of autumn Customs:

1, paste autumn fat

People generally weigh themselves in early autumn and compare them with those in long summer. With the autumn wind, I just want to eat something good to make up for the loss in summer. The remedy is to "paste autumn fertilizer": to eat delicious food, of course, meat is the first choice, the so-called "paste autumn fertilizer with meat"

Step 2 weigh the water

In the past, people filled containers of the same size with water before and after beginning of autumn and weighed them. If there is more water in front of beginning of autumn, it means there is more water, so there will be less rain in autumn; If there is a lot of water behind beginning of autumn, there will be more rain in autumn, which may lead to autumn waterlogging.

3, gnawing autumn

Chewing autumn, also known as biting autumn, is a custom of Han nationality 18 years old. That is, eating melons that day in beginning of autumn. Tianjin pays attention to eating watermelon or cantaloupe in beginning of autumn, which is called "biting autumn", which means that it is hot in summer, and you will take a bite when you arrive in beginning of autumn.