When is the beginning of autumn in 2023?

August 8, 2023 is beginning of autumn.

Beginning of autumn is the thirteenth of the twenty-four solar terms, and it is the beginning of autumn. In the southwest, the sun reaches the longitude of 135, which falls on August 7, 8 or 9 of the Gregorian calendar every year. "Reason" means the beginning; "Autumn" means that the grain is ripe. The change of the whole nature is a step-by-step process, and beginning of autumn is a turning point in which the Yang gradually closes, the Yin gradually grows, and the Yang gradually gets cloudy. In nature, everything begins to mature from luxuriance.

Beginning of autumn means precipitation, humidity, etc. It is at the turning point of the year and tends to decrease or decline. Since beginning of autumn, the sun be the spirit gradually closed, and everything was restrained. Beginning of autumn, beginning of spring, long summer and beginning of winter, also known as the "Four Estates", are also one of the "Four Seasons and Eight Festivals" in ancient times. Autumn is the season of grain ripening and harvest. At the beginning of autumn, there was a custom of offering sacrifices to the land gods and celebrating the harvest in ancient times.

Agricultural activities in early autumn

"Autumn" means that the crops are about to mature. Since beginning of autumn, the sun be the spirit gradually closed, everything was restrained, and it began to move from luxuriant to mature. The twenty-four solar terms reflect the changes of "Qi" in the four seasons. Beginning of autumn is the node where the yang gradually closes, the yin gradually grows, and the yang gradually turns to yin.

After autumn, the temperature is still high in most parts of China around beginning of autumn, and all kinds of crops grow vigorously. Mid-season rice blooms and bears fruit, stalks round overnight, soybean pods, corn ears, cotton bolls and sweet potato tubers expand rapidly, so the demand for water is very urgent. The drought in this period will cause irreparable damage to the final harvest of crops.

There are folk sayings that "three rains in beginning of autumn have turned rice into rice" and "autumn rains are falling and gold is everywhere". Double-night growth is in a high-temperature to low-temperature environment, so we must seize the favorable opportunity of high temperature, topdressing and ploughing to strengthen management.

Refer to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-beginning of autumn