What are the symbols and traditions of the Autumn Rising festival?

1. Autumn is the node where yang qi gradually collects and yin qi gradually grows, gradually changing from yangheng to yinheng. Entering the fall means that precipitation, humidity, etc., is at the turning point of the year, tends to decline or decrease; in nature, everything begins to grow from lush tend to mature depression.

2, Autumn Festival, also known as the July Festival. Zhou dynasty is the day of the son of heaven personally rate three dukes and six ministers of the vassals and doctors, to the western suburbs to welcome the autumn, and held a ceremony to sacrifice less howl, matricaria. Han Dynasty still inherited this custom. To the Tang Dynasty, every Autumn Day, also sacrificed to the five emperors.

3, Song Dynasty, the day of Autumn, men and women are wearing rowan leaves, in order to respond to the seasonal order. There is a heather red leaves cut petals hairpin insert sideburns custom, there is also a small red beans swallowed in autumn water seven custom, Ming inherited the Song custom. Qing Dynasty in the Autumn Festival on this day, hanging scales weighing people, and the number of scales on the day of the summer compared to test the fat and thin in summer.

4, has always been, in China's vast countryside, in the day or night of the Autumn Festival, there is the custom of divining the weather hot and cold. There are also watermelons, beans to taste the new, the custom of ancestors. There is also a day before the Autumn Festival, Chen Bing melon, steamed eggplant, fried Elsholtzia drink custom.