Is there anything special about the solar terms in beginning of autumn?

The most important thing is the custom of early autumn.

1, paste autumn fat

In early autumn, people are popular to weigh themselves with hanging scales and compare them with those in long summer. Because people have no appetite in summer and the food is light and simple. After two or three months, there will usually be big trouble: most of them have to lose weight. With the autumn wind, my appetite is wide open. I want to eat something good, supplement some nutrition and make up for the loss in summer. The remedy is to "paste autumn fat": on this day in beginning of autumn, all kinds of meat, such as stew, barbecue, braised pork and so on. "Paste the fat and meat together".

"Sticking autumn fat" is popular among the people in Beijing and Hebei. On this day, ordinary people eat stewed meat, while cultured people eat boiled meat and braised pork, as well as jiaozi, stewed chicken, stewed duck and braised fish.

2, gnawing autumn

"Eating autumn" is also called "biting autumn" in some places.

Beginning of autumn "chews autumn" Tianjin pays attention to beginning of autumn eating watermelon or cantaloupe, which means "biting autumn", which means that it is unbearable in the hot summer, so take a bite when you arrive in 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 Zhejiang and other places, beginning of autumn's daily habits of eating watermelon and shochu are thought to prevent malaria. It was beginning of autumn that day. People in the city bought a watermelon and went home. The whole family gathered around to chew watermelon. It was autumn. Country people are much bolder when they eat autumn. They sat in groups on the floor in the melon shed and under the shade, holding red watermelons, green watermelons, whisked sweet potatoes and golden corn cobs. Eating autumn in a good mood is actually a joy of harvest.

3. Autumn House

Autumn society was originally a day to worship the land god in autumn, which began in Han Dynasty. Later generations set the Autumn Festival on the fifth day after beginning of autumn. At this time, the goal of bumper harvest has been completed, and the government and people have sacrificed to God to show their gratitude. In Song Shiqiu society, there were customs of eating cakes, drinking wine and women visiting their mothers. Tang Han Wo's poem "No See": "I am willing to be a royal swallow, and the autumn society will not return." In some places, there are still sayings of "running a cooperative", "respecting the god of the cooperative" and "cooking porridge for the cooperative".