What are the traditional customs of the autumnal equinox What are the traditional customs of the autumnal equinox?

1, autumn moon festival, the earliest ancient festival of the moon is the day of the autumnal equinox, but the autumnal equinox is based on the relative position of the sun out of the day, the moon at night is not necessarily full, and later changed to the Mid-Autumn Festival.

2, eat autumn vegetables, Lingnan region has the custom of autumn equinox eat autumn vegetables, autumn vegetables is a kind of wild amaranth, the country people called autumn artemisia.

3, send the autumn cow, the autumn equinox is coming, there will be sent from house to house to send the autumn cow figure. The figure is the two open red or yellow paper printed on the lunar calendar throughout the year, but also printed on the farmer plowing pattern, the name is "Autumn Cow Figure". Sent to the map are some folk good words singers, mainly say some fall plowing and auspicious not against the farming season words, each to a family is the scene, see what to say what, said the owner of the joy and give money until. Although the words come out of the mouth, but every sentence has a rhyme and sound. Commonly known as "say autumn", say autumn people will be called "autumn official".

4, sticky bird mouth, the day of the autumnal equinox farmers are in accordance with the customary holiday, each family to eat dumplings, but also do not have to wrap the heart of the dumplings more than ten or twenty to thirty boiled with a thin bamboo fork skewer placed in the outdoor field edge of the ground, the name of the sticky finch mouth, lest the finch to destroy the crops.

5, kite flying, the autumn equinox is the most suitable for kite flying, kite category has the king word kite, chub kite, squint moth kite, Leigong bug kite, moonlight kite, the big one is two meters high, the small one also has two, three feet.

6, make noodles sparrow, eat noodles sparrow, "noodles sparrow" is the glutinous rice flour kneaded into a dough, and then carved with a mold made of a glutinous rice snacks. In ancient times, the arrival of the autumnal equinox means that the rice is about to ripen, and it will soon be time for a big harvest in the fall, and the three autumns of harvesting, plowing, and planting are particularly intense. At this time, there will be many small birds go to the paddy fields to steal rice, destroying the crops. People will use glutinous rice flour made of dough, with bamboo skewers into a string thrown to the field, the birds ate the face of the bird's mouth will be glued, so you can not go to the scourge of crops.