What are the holiday customs in early autumn?

Beginning of autumn Festival, also known as July Festival. Time begins on August 7th or 8th of the Gregorian calendar every year. In the Zhou Dynasty, it was the Japanese emperor who personally led the princes and doctors from three counties and six counties to the western suburbs to welcome the autumn and hold a ceremony of offering sacrifices to Shao Hao and Ru Shou (see "Ritual Sacrifice Month Order"). The Han Dynasty still inherited this custom. History of Sacrifice in the Later Han Dynasty: "On the day of beginning of autumn, the western suburbs welcomed autumn and offered sacrifices to Bai Di Ru Shou. Dressed in white, Cheqi performed the song Xihao and the Bashu dance Yu Ming. And the son of heaven went into the nursery to shoot sacrifices to recommend the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the ancestral temple, and he was appointed to be Liu. Killing animals as sacrifices shows that Qiu Lai promotes martial arts. "

In the Tang Dynasty, every day in beginning of autumn, five emperors were also sacrificed. "New Tang Book": "beginning of autumn beginning of winter worships the five emperors in the suburbs." In the Song Dynasty, on that day in beginning of autumn, both men and women wore catalpa leaves to match the time sequence. There is a custom of cutting and carving the petals of heather red leaves and inserting them into temples, and there is also a custom of swallowing seven small red beans in autumn water (see Lin 'an Year), which obviously inherits the Song custom. In the Qing Dynasty, on the day when the Mid-Autumn Festival began, people weighed themselves with hanging scales and compared them with those who weighed themselves in summer to test their obesity in summer. Since the Republic of China, in the vast rural areas, people are used to predicting the hot and cold weather in beginning of autumn during the day or night. There is also the custom of tasting new things with watermelon and green beans and offering sacrifices to ancestors. On the day before beginning of autumn, Chen Bing had the customs of eating melons, steaming eggplant and frying fragrant incense.

When you arrive in beginning of autumn, the plane tree will definitely begin to shed its leaves, which is why there is an idiom "When you lose a leaf, you will know autumn". Autumn includes six solar terms: beginning of autumn, first summer, white dew, autumnal equinox, cold dew and first frost. It is a transitional season from hot to cold, and then from cold to cold.