What are the customs of Autumn

What are the customs of the Autumn Festival

1. Autumn fat: It is popular to weigh yourself on the day of the Autumn Festival and compare your weight with that of the summer. Autumn wind together, appetite, want to eat some good, to compensate for the loss of summer. The way to make up for this is to "stick autumn fat": eat thick food, of course, the first choice to eat meat, the so-called "meat to stick fat".

2, weighing water: in the old days, the people were in the same size container filled with water before and after the fall, and then weighed. If the water is heavy before the autumn, it shows that the water is heavy, then the fall rain is less; if the water is heavy after the autumn, then the fall rain is more, there is a possibility of the formation of autumn floods.

3, nibble autumn: nibble autumn, also known as the bite of autumn, Han Chinese custom of the year. That is to eat melon on the day of the fall. Tianjin preaching in the autumn this day to eat watermelon or melon, said "bite autumn", implying that the summer heat, the heat is difficult to endure, when the autumn, will bite it. Jiangsu and other places also eat watermelon on the day of autumn to "bite the autumn", it is said that can not be born in the fall prickly heat. In Zhejiang and other places, autumn day to take watermelon and shochu with food, folk believe that can prevent malaria.

4, eat "dregs": Shandong, Sichuan and other regions popular in the fall to eat "dregs" - a small bean curd made of soybean paste and vegetables, and there are "Eat the dregs of the Autumn, adults and children do not vomit nor pull" the proverb.

5, Autumn Busy Club: Autumn Busy Club is one of the customs of Autumn, generally held in July and August of the lunar calendar, is to meet the Autumn Busy to prepare for the operation of the trade conference, the purpose is to exchange production tools, sell livestock, exchange of food and household goods, and so on.

6, Autumn Society: Autumn Society is also one of the customs of Autumn, Autumn Society was originally a day of sacrifice to the gods of the land in autumn, began in the Han Dynasty, the later generations will be the Autumn Society in the Autumn after the fifth day of the E, when the harvest has been completed, the government and the private sector are all sacrificed to the gods on this day of thanks.

7, touching the fall: the 15th day of the eighth month of the summer calendar, is the Mid-Autumn Festival. This night after marriage has not yet given birth to women, accompanied by a sister-in-law or other female companions, to the fields of the melon frame, under the bean trellis, secretly groping to pick melon and beans, so the name of the touch of autumn. It is said to touch the pumpkin, easy to have a boy; touch the lentils, easy to have a girl; touch the white lentils more auspicious, in addition to the birth of a girl, or a good omen of the white head to old age.

8, eat autumn peach: in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province around the custom of eating autumn peach on Autumn Day. Every autumn day, everyone has to eat autumn peach, each person a, peach eaten to the peach kernel to stay hidden. Wait until New Year's Eve, unknown to the peach kernel thrown into the fireplace and burned to ashes, it is believed that this will be exempted from the plague for a year.

9, eat "lucky round": Autumn festival is the Taiwan longan season. People believe that eating longan meat, grandchildren will be a big official, and longan is also known as "Fu Yuan", so there is a proverb: eating Fu Yuan have children and grandchildren in the scholar.

10, eat small red beans: from the Tang and Song dynasties, there are in the autumn, must be served with well water small red beans custom. Take seven to fourteen small red beans, well water to swallow, serve to face west, so it is said to be an autumn without dysentery.

11, eat "slag": Shandong Laixi region popular autumn eat "slag", a small tofu made of soybean and greens, and have "eaten the slag of autumn, adults and children do not vomit also do not pull! "

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12, hanging scales weighing people: the Qing Dynasty, when the folk of Jiaxing popular in this day to hanging scales weighing children, and then the weight and the summer contrast to test the fat and thin, weight loss is called called "bitter summer". At that time, people believed that since the thin need to "make up", which is also commonly known as "autumn fat" in the autumn.

13, the loach: Wuxi people also have an interesting saying, is the day of the fall to meet the loach. If there are heavy winds and rain in the fall, the loach in the rice paddies on the day of autumn will be in the water straight.

14, eat eggs: In addition, the day of Autumn, in other parts of China, there are eating eggs, peaches and other customs. Eggs, flat, fill the gas deficiency, have the function of tranquility and nourish the heart.

15, pray for blessings: in the Wujin area of Changzhou, the Autumn will be held in honor of the Manggong Bodhisattva, praying for the wind and rain, the country and the people in peace.