What do you mean by four seasons and eight festivals?

The four seasons refer to the four seasons of "spring, summer, autumn and winter", and the eight festivals are "vernal equinox and autumnal equinox, summer solstice, winter solstice, beginning of autumn, beginning of spring, beginning of winter and long summer".

If you want to be more sophisticated and know a little about folklore, you will know that the idiom four seasons and eight festivals actually refers to all festivals throughout the year. There are twenty-four traditional festivals in China, which are called twenty-four solar terms. The most important things are Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. Beginning of autumn is the festival before the Mid-Autumn Festival, from August 7th to 9th.

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The interesting autumn ceremony begins.

1. During the Song Dynasty, beginning of autumn planned to move the buttonwood planted in flowerpots to the temple. It's time for "beginning of autumn". Tai Shigong shouted, "Autumn is here." After the play, the phoenix tree dropped one or two leaves to express autumn. After reading this, you will definitely say, Wow, "Falling leaves know autumn", so it comes from here.

2. In Qing Dynasty, people weighed themselves by hanging scales at the beginning of Mid-Autumn Festival, and compared them with the scales in summer to test the degree of obesity in summer. If you lose weight, you have to make up. The remedy is to "paste autumn fertilizer": beginning of autumn eats all kinds of meat, stew, barbecue and braised pork, and "paste fat with meat".

Of course, local customs are different, and food supplements are also varied. Eating red beans, eating jiaozi, eating cold cakes, eating watermelons, eating autumn peaches and eating longan, in short, the festivals of China people cannot be separated from eating Chinese characters, which is also vividly reflected here. In Bian Xiao's view, hanging scales says that people are just a cover, and the key point is "sticking to autumn fat". Therefore, readers who love food, when the weekend comes, put on autumn fertilizer and lose weight in spring, and can't violate folk customs!

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