When is the Harvest Festival?

Harvest Festival is on September 23rd of the Gregorian calendar every year.

China Farmers Harvest Festival, the first national festival specially set up for farmers, was set up on 20 18 (Guo Han [2018] No.80), and the festival time is the annual "Autumn Equinox".

The establishment of "China Farmers Harvest Festival" will greatly mobilize the enthusiasm, initiative and creativity of hundreds of millions of farmers and enhance their sense of honor, happiness and acquisition. Holding "China Farmers Harvest Festival" can show the great achievements of rural reform and development, and at the same time show China's agriculture-oriented tradition since ancient times.

The reason why the harvest festival was set up at the autumnal equinox

As we all know, the autumnal equinox is the 16th solar term in the "24 solar terms" of China lunar calendar, which is exactly half of the 90 days from "beginning of autumn" to "first frost". Autumn equinox, sunny weather, sweet-scented osmanthus, crab fat chrysanthemum yellow, is the harvest scene of Man Cang, a valley with fragrant melons and fruits.

Traditionally, the autumnal equinox is not only the end of autumn harvest and winter storage, but also the beginning of summer sowing and spring ploughing. As an agricultural proverb in North China says: "The white dew is early, the cold dew is late, and the autumn equinox is the time to plant wheat."

Therefore, designating the annual autumnal equinox as "China Farmers Harvest Festival" is not only a tribute and inheritance to the traditional "twenty-four solar terms", but also a reflection of contemporary China people's understanding of the concept of natural replacement, adaptation to natural laws and adaptation to sustainable ecological development.

The establishment of "Farmers Harvest Festival" not only has contemporary significance, but also has a stronger cultural background. On the one hand, for ancient China with thousands of years of agricultural civilization, the establishment of this festival has a sense of ceremony: spring planting and autumn harvest, a year of hard work and fruitful harvest, which can best reflect the joy of harvest.

At the same time, it is a good performance of contemporary people to accurately grasp the seasonal law and embellish traditional civilization with modern thinking. The annual autumnal equinox of the lunar calendar is designated as "China Farmers Harvest Festival", and the seasonal change of solar terms has become an important festival with a distinct modern feeling. To some extent, this is just an opportunity and essence for the organic integration of traditional culture into modern life.