What are the folk customs in beginning of autumn?

? The rivers are the same every year, and the spring plate is empty. Everything in the world is selfless, and there are declines in the mountains. The twenty-four solar terms represent the inheritance of traditional culture in China. When it comes to the twenty-four solar terms, we have to talk about holiday customs. So, do you know what the folk customs in beginning of autumn are? The following is what folk customs are there in beginning of autumn that I compiled for you. Welcome to share it with friends around you!

What are the folk customs in beginning of autumn? The beginning of Mid-Autumn Festival

? Beginning of autumn Festival, also known as July Festival. Time begins on August 7th or 8th of the Gregorian calendar every year. In the Zhou Dynasty, it was the Japanese emperor who personally led the princes and doctors from three counties and six counties to the western suburbs to welcome the autumn and hold a ceremony of offering sacrifices to Shao Hao and Ru Shou (see "Moon Sacrifice Order"). The Han Dynasty still inherited this custom. Sacrifice records in the Book of Later Han Dynasty: On the day of beginning of autumn, the western suburbs welcomed the autumn and offered sacrifices to Bai Di Ru Shou. Flags and costumes are all white, singing the song "Xihao" and dancing "Yu Ming". And the son of heaven went into the nursery to shoot sacrifices to recommend the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the ancestral temple, and he was appointed to be Liu. Qiu Lai Wu Yang said, kill animals as sacrifices. In the Tang Dynasty, every day in beginning of autumn, five emperors were also sacrificed. Records of Rites and Music in the New Tang Dynasty: beginning of winter, beginning of autumn, four suburbs worship five emperors. In the Song Dynasty, on that day in beginning of autumn, both men and women wore catalpa leaves to match the time sequence. There is a custom of cutting and carving the petals of heather red leaves and inserting them into temples, and there is also a custom of swallowing seven small red beans in autumn water (see Lin 'an Year), which obviously inherits the Song custom. In the Qing Dynasty, on the day when the Mid-Autumn Festival began, people weighed themselves with hanging scales and compared them with those who weighed themselves in summer to test their obesity in summer. Since the Republic of China, in the vast rural areas, people are used to predicting the hot and cold weather in beginning of autumn during the day or night. There is also the custom of tasting new things with watermelon and green beans and offering sacrifices to ancestors. On the day before beginning of autumn, Chen Bing had the customs of eating melons, steaming eggplant and frying fragrant incense.

? Touch autumn

? August 15th in the summer calendar is the Mid-Autumn Festival. That night, the childless woman after marriage, accompanied by her sister-in-law or other female companions, secretly groped for melons and beans in the fields under the fruit stand and bean shed, hence the name "Touching Autumn". It is often said that touching pumpkins is easy to have boys; Touching lentils is easy to give birth to girls; Touching white lentils is more auspicious, besides giving birth to girls, it is a good sign to grow old together. According to traditional customs, the owner of the garden can't blame them who picked the night melon beans. No matter how late aunt comes home, parents are not allowed to criticize her. This custom existed before the Qing Dynasty and has been circulated among the people since the Republic of China. For example, in Zhulinguan area of Shangluo, on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, before the moon came out, the children got into the nearby autumn fields as usual and touched something to go home. If you touch onions, parents think that children grow up smart; If you touch the melon and fruit, parents think that the child will eat and drink in the future and everything will be fine. People regard touching autumn as a game and don't punish stealing. From this day on, parents should restrain their children. In Gua Tian, they are not allowed to take other people's branches or leaves. In Shangnan County, on Mid-Autumn Festival night, after eating moon cakes, children who refuse to grow tall touch sorghum. People without boys touch eggplant; No girls. People touch peppers; Children who are not smart touch onions.

? Busy meetings in autumn

? Autumn busy meeting is usually held in July and August of the lunar calendar, which is a business meeting to prepare for autumn busy. Some are held in conjunction with temple fairs, and some are specially held for the lively autumn. Its purpose is to exchange production tools, sell livestock and exchange food and daily necessities. Its scale is the same as that of Summer Busy Fair, including mule and horse market, grain market, farm tools production market, cloth market and Beijing-Guangzhou grocery market. Today, such gatherings are called economic and trade exchanges. During the meeting, there will be cultural performances, horse racing, monkey tricks and other cultural programs to entertain.

? Autumn harvest mutual assistance

? Autumn is busy, and there is a custom of mutual assistance in autumn harvest in rural areas. You help me, I help you, and go to the fields in groups of three or five to grab the cooked corn. A corn should be moved four times: the first crop, the second crop, the third crop and the empty crop. Women, old people and teenagers carry bamboo cages in rows, one by one. Don't let the monkeys move the corn, one at a time. Instead, I moved one and put it in a cage, then put it in the corn ear pile in the field, and finally pulled it home with a cart. Remove the mature ear of the first crop of corn and the immature ear of the second crop of corn. The second and third crops move in the same way. Finally, the empty stubble is fished out, and the remaining ears of corn, old or young, are moved home together. See whose corn matures early, and move it to whom first, so as not to go against the farming season, but also to return the grain to the warehouse.