What are the taboos on the fall equinox?

The taboos on the day of the fall equinox are mainly: avoid excessive exercise and avoid eating cold.

01 avoid excessive exercise

As we all know, autumn health, should be "harvest" as the main, the autumn equinox is the beginning of the official step into the autumn, so avoid excessive exercise, resulting in excessive physical exertion, should be easy and gentle, The amount of activity is not appropriate for the project, such as: hiking, walking, playing tai chi, bicycling, dancing and so on.

02 avoid diet cold

Autumn equinox taboo diet cold, due to the autumn equinox cold dampness is heavier, so the diet should pay attention to the mild, do not eat too much chilled, raw and cold food, and try not to eat the sea, increase the burden of the stomach, so as to allow themselves to successfully pass through this stage. At this time, the spleen and stomach are not sick, the next change in the festival, in order to maintain a good state and less sick, not sick.

Autumn Equinox from

"Autumn Equinox" and "Spring Equinox", the same, are the earliest established by the ancients of the festival, there is a way: "summer retreat Autumn clarification The arrival of the autumn equinox, meaning the official start of autumn, after this date, the direct sunlight position south, the northern hemisphere, the day is short and the night is long.

"Autumn Equinox" is the 16th of the 24 solar terms, and the fourth solar term in the fall. "Autumn Equinox" of the "points" is the meaning of "equal parts", the autumn equinox this day is exactly in the middle of the 90 days of autumn, with "equal parts of the autumn color "meaning, so the name of the" Autumn Equinox ". At this time of the festival "silver cotton golden rice thousand heavy show, Dan Gui small chrysanthemum ten thousand miles of fragrance", is at the time of the Chinese farmers' harvest season, at this time the motherland autumn colors appear, colorful, farmers busy in the golden fields, everywhere overflowing with the joy of the harvest.

Day and night are even, cold and heat are even, it is the most beautiful time of the year!

Folk customs on the day of the autumnal equinox include: eating autumn vegetables, sacrificing the autumn moon, sending the autumn cow, sticking the bird's beak and erecting the autumn egg.

01 Eat Autumn Vegetables

"Eat Autumn Vegetables" custom, mainly popular in China's southern region south of the Five Ridges, is the local Hakka people unique to a folk custom.

The so-called "autumn vegetables" refers to the fresh wild amaranth, locally known as autumn artemisia, with heat detoxification, diuretic effect. As the saying goes: "Autumn soup is to wash the liver and intestines; the whole family, young and old, is safe and healthy", in the local area every Autumn Equinox day, the whole village went to pick autumn vegetables, and fish slices made into an autumn soup, so as to clean the stomach and intestines, and to protect the health of the whole family.

02 Autumn Moon Festival

As the saying goes: "Spring Festival Day, Autumn Festival Moon", "Autumn Equinox" festival is evolved from the traditional "Moon Festival", so, the day is also "Autumn Equinox". The day of the fall equinox is also the day of the "moon festival".

The solemn ceremony of "moon sacrifice" is prepared in advance with a large incense burner, on which offerings such as watermelons, apples, jujubes, plums, grapes, etc., are placed, and then the "moon god" tablet is placed in the direction of the moon, and red candles are lit, and then the whole family worships the moon, praying for blessings and praying for the moon. After the red candle is lit, the whole family will worship the moon and pray for blessings and peace.

03 Sending the Autumn Cow

"Sending the Autumn Cow," also known as "Sending the Autumn Cow Picture," is a very unique custom in China's rural folklore.

The "Autumn Cow Drawing" is actually a piece of red or yellow paper printed with the year's lunar calendar and a drawing of a farmer plowing a field. In the rural areas of China, every year when the autumn equinox arrives, the activity of presenting a picture of a cow is organized.

The farmer who delivers the pictures is called the "Autumn Official", and this person must be able to act and sing well, because the work he does is called "Speaking of Autumn", and he needs to go from house to house to deliver the pictures of the Autumn Cow, and every house needs to be in a scene, and words come out of his mouth, and the words are auspicious and melodious, so that the hosts will be happy to hear them. The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have the right words to say, and that they sound good, so that the owner is happy to pay for them.

04 Sticky Bird's Beak

The custom of "sticking Bird's Beak" is mainly popular in Hakka, and Bird refers to sparrow.

The Autumn Equinox is a holiday for farmers in the Hakka, and on this day they take a vacation according to the custom, put down their farm work and make soup dumplings to eat. In addition to their own family to eat, but also to make more than a dozen of the soup dumplings without filling, with a thin bamboo fork skewer placed in the outdoor field side of the ground, so that the sparrow to eat, want to use this method of sticking to the sparrow's mouth, so as to avoid the destruction of the crops by it, "sticky sparrow mouth" of the custom is also from this.

05 vertical autumn eggs

With the spring equinox, the autumnal equinox this day the sun shines on the equator, day and night are equal, the Earth's axis and the plane of the orbit of the rotation is just in the balance of forces, so the same with the custom of vertical eggs.

On the day of the fall equinox each year, tens of millions of people around the world do the "vertical egg" test: 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.

As the saying goes: "The fall equinox is here, and the eggs are beautiful. The erection of the autumn egg is a very interesting activity, although the erection of the autumn egg is quite a lot of failures, but there are also many successes. Because our country has the wisdom of the ancient people found this natural law, so people use this way to celebrate the arrival of the autumn equinox.