Extended data:
Beginning of autumn is the thirteenth of the twenty-four solar terms, and it is the beginning of autumn. The bucket refers to the southwest, and the sun reaches the longitude of 135, and it is celebrated on August 7 or 8 of the Gregorian calendar every year. "Reason" means the beginning; "Autumn" means that the grain is ripe. The change of the whole nature is a step-by-step process, and beginning of autumn is a turning point in which the Yang gradually closes, the Yin gradually grows, and the Yang gradually gets cloudy. In nature, everything begins to mature from luxuriance.
Traditional customs:
1, offering sacrifices to the land god.
Autumn is the harvest season, and people have the custom of offering sacrifices to the land gods and celebrating the harvest.
2, autumn melon.
There is a custom of "beginning of autumn gnawing autumn melons" in the south. Eat more watermelons in autumn to prevent autumn dryness and form a custom for a long time. Zizhi, published in the Republic of China, records: "beginning of autumn ate watermelon the day before, which is called gnawing autumn." It also means welcoming the arrival of autumn.
3, after autumn fat.
People weigh themselves with hanging scales in early autumn and compare them with those in long summer to test their obesity. Losing weight is called "bitter summer". At that time, people often judged health only by being fat and thin. Of course, weight loss needs to be "supplemented", and the way to make up is to "paste autumn fertilizer".
4, bask in the autumn.
Sunbathing in autumn is a typical agricultural custom phenomenon with strong regional characteristics. Villagers living in mountainous areas such as Hunan, Guangxi, Anhui and Jiangxi. It has become a traditional agricultural custom to use the roof in front of the house and the window sill to hang crops.
For a long time, in the vast rural areas of China, people used to predict the hot and cold weather in beginning of autumn during the day or at 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.
Beginning of autumn is the beginning of autumn. "Guanzi" said: "Autumn begins in the shade, so everything is harvested." The change of the whole nature is a gradual process. Beginning of autumn is a turning point when the yang gradually closes and the yin gradually grows. It is the season when everything is ripe and harvested, and it is also the transitional period when the metabolism of yin and yang appears in the human body.
Therefore, keeping in good health in autumn, all spiritual feelings, diet and daily life, and exercise are based on the principle of nurturing and receiving. According to the principle of "nourishing yang in spring and summer and nourishing yin in autumn and winter" in traditional Chinese medicine, it can be supplemented as needed.