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What are the festivals of fall? What are the characteristics of each? And what are the customs of each place on these days?

There are six solar terms in autumn: Autumn, Heat, White Dew, Autumn Equinox, Cold Dew and Frost.

The climate of autumn is characterized by hot and humid weather in the early autumn, dry weather with hot days and cool nights after the white dew, and cold weather after the cold dew.

Customs:

1, Autumn, August 8, many places to the "Autumn" when there is the "autumn fat" custom;

2, heat, August 24, ancestor worship, welcome to the autumn before and after the summer festival. Folk customs before and after the summer festival are mostly related to ancestor worship and welcoming the fall. Before and after the summer festival folk will have celebrated Zhanzhan Zhongyuan folk activities, commonly known as "for the half of the seventh month" or "Zhongyuan Festival"; release of river lanterns; open fishing festival; splashing water custom;

3, white dew, September 8, white dew tea; rice wine;

4, autumn equinox, September 24, autumn harvest, harvest, rice wine;

4, autumn equinox. September 24, autumn harvest, autumn plowing, autumn planting of the "three autumn" busy seems particularly intense;

5, cold dew, October 9, Denggao Festival;

6, frost, October 24, in some parts of China, frost season to eat red persimmons, in the view of the local people, so that not only can

to keep warm from the cold, but also to replenish the tendons and bones, is a very good frost food.