What is the solar term on September 8?

September 8 is the Millennium solar term.

Millennium is the15th solar term in the "twenty-four solar terms", and the third solar term in autumn is the end of the application of the moon in the lunar calendar and the beginning of the unitary month. Fighting fingers; The sun reaches longitude 165 degrees; On September 7-9 of Gregorian calendar, "White Dew" is an important solar term reflecting the growth of cold in nature. Because the cold air turns to attack, it is still hot in sunny days, but the temperature drops rapidly after evening, and the temperature difference between day and night gradually increases.

According to the standard of "average weather temperature" proposed by modern scholar Zhang Baokun, the average weather temperature in spring or autumn is 10-22℃. According to this standard, from the beginning of the Millennium solar term, all localities began to enter autumn one after another, and there is a saying among the people that' the Millennium is covered in body'. It is said that the weather is cold, so you can remind your clothes that it is still hot during the day and it is already cold in the morning and evening. If you go shirtless, you will catch a cold easily.

Thousands of years of traditional customs

Sipping rice wine: Xingning, Sandu and Liaojiang in Zixing, Hunan have always had wine-making customs. Every year on the Millennium Festival, every family will make wine and drink "local wine" when receiving guests. Its wine takes glutinous rice, sorghum and other grains as raw materials, which is mild and sweet, and is called "Bailu rice wine".

Sacrifice to Yu Wang: People living in Taihu Lake, Jiangsu Province will sacrifice to Yu Wang in egret season. Yu Wang is a legendary hero of water control, and fishermen on Taihu Lake call him "Waterway Bodhisattva". Incense ceremonies are held for Yu Wang every year on the eighth day of the first month, Tomb-Sweeping Day, the seventh day of July and Bailuyuan, among which Tomb-Sweeping Day and Bailuyuan Spring and Autumn Festival are the largest and last for one week.

Autumn Society: Autumn Society and Spring Society are both "social days" to worship the land gods in ancient times. In ancient times, the land gods and places where they were worshipped were called "country". According to folk custom, people should set up a social club to worship, pray or reward the land god in each sowing or harvesting season. Autumn clubs are usually held on the fifth day after beginning of autumn, about forty days after beginning of autumn, and usually around the millennium and the vernal equinox. This is a festival to celebrate the harvest and offer sacrifices to the gods.