Autumn Equinox Customs

What are the customs of the Autumn Equinox

1. Eggs

Every year on the day of the Autumn Equinox, tens of millions of people all over the world do the "Eggs" experiment. This is called "Chinese custom" play, how to become a "world game", it is difficult to prove. However, the game is simple and fun: choose a smooth and even, just four or five days after the birth of a fresh egg, gently on the table to put it up. Although there are many failures, there are also many successes. The fall equinox is the best time for the egg game, so there is a saying that "when the fall equinox comes, the egg is pretty". The eggs are so beautifully erected.

What are the customs of the Autumn Equinox

2, eat autumn vegetables

In the Lingnan region, in the past, the four yups (now plus Heshan for the five yups) of Kaiping Cangcheng town of Xie surnames, there is a custom that does not festival, called "Autumn Equinox to eat autumn vegetables". "Autumn vegetables" is a kind of wild amaranth, the townspeople called "autumn artemisia". On the day of the autumnal equinox, everyone in the village went to pick autumn vegetables. When searching in the fields, most of them are young and green, thin, and about as long as the palm of your hand. The harvested autumn vegetables are usually home and fish fillets "rolling soup", called "autumn soup". There is a jingle: "Autumn soup to irrigate the dirty, wash the liver and intestines. The whole family, young and old, safe and healthy." Since the fall of the year, people still pray for peace and quiet at home, strong and healthy.

3, worship

Autumn equinox around the folk festival on February 15, the birthday of the Sage King of Zhangzhou: the Sage King of Zhangzhou, also known as "Chen Shengwang", for the Tang Dynasty, Chen Yuanguang, a scholar of the martial arts, Zhangzhou has been a great success, and after his death, he became the guardian deity of Zhangzhou. February 19th is the birthday of Guanyin Bodhisattva. On this day, believers go to the Guanyin temples to pay homage to the Bodhisattva. February 25th King of the Three Mountains Festival: The King of the Three Mountains is the god of the three mountains of Jieyang County, Chaozhou Prefecture, Guangdong Province, Dushan, Mingshan and Towel Mountain, which was patronized by the Hakka immigrants from Chaozhou in the early years, and therefore the believers are mainly of Hakka origin.

4, send autumn cattle

Send autumn cattle

Autumn equinox is coming, then there will be sent from house to house to send autumn cattle figure. The map is the two open red or yellow paper printed on the annual lunar calendar, but also printed on the farmer plowing patterns, the name is "Autumn Cow". Sent to the map are some folk good language singers, mainly say some fall plowing and auspicious not against the farming season, each to a family is a scene, see what to say what, said the owner of the joy and give money until. Although the words come out of the mouth, but every sentence has a rhyme and sound. Commonly known as "say autumn", say autumn people will be called "autumn official".

5, sticky bird mouth

Autumn equinox this day farmers are in accordance with the customary holiday, each family to eat soup yuan, but also do not have to wrap the heart of the soup yuan more than ten or twenty or thirty boiled, with a thin bamboo fork skewer placed in the outdoor field side of the ground, the name of the sticky bird's mouth, lest the bird to destroy the crops.

6, kite flying

Autumn equinox is still a good time for children to fly kites. Especially on the day of the fall equinox. Even adults participate. The kite categories are king kite, chub kite, squint moth kite, thunder bug kite, moonlight kite, the big one is two meters high, and the small one is two or three feet. There are kites for sale in the market, more small, suitable for children to play, and most of them are still their own paste, larger, and compete with each other to see which one can fly high.