Interesting solar terms
Thunder began to ring: on the day of the autumn equinox, thunder began to ring, it thundered in the sun in February, and it thundered in the fields in August. The sun also declined. In the first half of autumn, autumn clouds are rolling and clouds are comfortable, and autumn clouds have become different. In the second half of autumn, the evil wind is everywhere, and the autumn rain is lingering. Autumn insects are still ringing, and red leaves are sad.
Empty-shell households with insect stings: the "empty-shell households with insect stings" in the last five days. Wang Anshi said in his poem, "Suddenly the branches are empty, and the cold insects want to be empty." "Blank" here means "cultivation". Insects were driven away by the cold, and they went underground to seal their nests, bid farewell to the last autumn in advance, and prepared to hibernate.
The water began to dry up: on the fifth day, "the water began to dry up", which means to dry up. Due to the influence of water vapor, water grows in spring and summer and dries up in autumn and winter.
custom
Sacrifice the moon in autumn. The autumnal equinox used to be the traditional "Festival of Sacrificing the Moon". Because the Chang 'e in the Moon Palace is a woman, there is a tradition that "men don't give the moon", which is the folk proverb that "men don't give Yue Bai".
Eat autumn vegetables. In Lingnan area, the whole village used to pick autumn vegetables, a kind of wild amaranth, on the day of autumnal equinox. Picked autumn dishes are generally made of fish fillets, which are called "autumn soup".
On the day of sticking a sparrow's mouth on the autumnal equinox, farmers traditionally eat jiaozi at home, making a dozen or twenty or thirty jiaozi, and putting it on the outdoor ridge with a thin bamboo fork, which is called sticking a sparrow's mouth, implying that they hope to prevent sparrows from destroying crops.
Send autumn cattle. At the autumnal equinox, people will send photos of autumn cows door to door. "Autumn Cattle Map" is to print the solar terms of all seasons on red paper or yellow paper, and also print the patterns of farmers' ploughing. The pictures are all good folk singers, mainly talking about the auspicious words of autumn ploughing and not going against the farming season. Although the words come out casually, every sentence is melodious. Commonly known as "Autumn", Qiu Ren is called "Qiu Guan".
Vertical eggs. When the autumnal equinox comes, eggs are beautiful. Every year at the vernal equinox or autumnal equinox, many people in many parts of our country are doing "laying eggs" experiments.
Health maintenance
Keep in good health at the autumnal equinox, and nourish the lungs first. After the autumnal equinox, the temperature plummeted. If the human body's resistance is poor, it is easy to cause respiratory diseases such as colds and asthma. Therefore, we must pay attention to the maintenance of lung qi in the autumn equinox and add clothes in time according to the weather changes. Drink plenty of water in your diet and eat glutinous rice, lotus root, tremella and other foods that promote fluid production and moisten dryness.
The autumnal equinox prevents heart failure. The autumn equinox leaves all over the ground, and the scene is gloomy, which is easy to make people sad, which is very unfavorable to physical and mental health, and even leads to a series of symptoms of "heart failure" such as dizziness, fatigue and palpitation. Therefore, we should keep a cool head and exercise more, which is not only beneficial to our health, but also can broaden our minds.