1, Autumn Festival Month:
The autumnal equinox used to be the traditional "Festival to offer sacrifices to the moon", and the Mid-Autumn Festival evolved from offering sacrifices to the moon in autumn. In ancient times, there was a folk activity of "Spring Festival to the Sun and the Moon". The autumnal equinox used to be the traditional "Festival of Sacrificing the Moon". Sacrificing to the moon is a very old custom in China. In fact, it is a ritual activity of the ancients in some places in ancient China to "Moon God". Mid-Autumn Festival is popular in Han Dynasty, which is a period of economic and cultural exchanges and integration between the north and the south of China, and cultural exchanges between different places spread together. The word "Mid-Autumn Festival" was first recorded in the book "Zhou Li" during the Han Dynasty. Mid-Autumn Festival was not popular in northern China from Han Dynasty to Tang Dynasty, but it was popular in the Central Plains of northern China after Tang Dynasty.
2, eat autumn vegetables:
The autumnal equinox is the official beginning of stepping on autumn. In Lingnan area, Xie's family in Cangzhen, Kaiping used to be four cities (now Heshan is five cities), and there is an unbroken custom called "eating autumn vegetables at the autumnal equinox". "Autumn vegetable" is a kind of wild amaranth, which villagers call "autumn Artemisia". On the autumnal equinox, the whole village went to pick autumn vegetables.
When searching in the wild, it is often green and thin, about the length of a palm. Picked autumn vegetables are usually boiled with fish fillets at home, which is called "autumn soup". There is a jingle: "autumn soup is dirty, wash the liver and intestines." The whole family is safe and healthy. "Since autumn, people still pray for peace and health at home.
3. Send autumn cattle:
The autumnal equinox is coming soon, and people will send pictures of autumn cows door to door. The picture is printed with red paper or yellow paper on the lunar solar terms all the year round, and also printed with farmers' ploughing patterns, which is called "Autumn Cattle Map". The pictures are all folk singers, who mainly say things like good luck in autumn ploughing that do not violate the farming season. Every time they go to a house, they say whatever they see until the owner is happy to give money. Although the words spoken are casual, every sentence rhymes beautifully. Commonly known as "Autumn", Qiu Ren is called "Qiu Guan".
4. Worship God:
The folk festivals around the autumnal equinox are: February 15, the birthday of Zhang Kai Wang Sheng; February 19 is the birthday of Guanyin Bodhisattva. Every birthday, many believers go to Kannonji to worship. On February 25th, Sanshan King Sacrifice Day: Sanshan King refers to Dushan, Mingshan, Jinshan and other mountain gods in Jieyang County, Chaozhou Prefecture, Guangdong Province. In the early years, Chaozhou Hakka immigrants were patrons in autumn, so the believers were mainly Hakkas.
5. Fly a kite:
The autumn equinox is also a good time for children to fly kites. Especially on the autumnal equinox, even adults attend. Kites are divided into Wang Zi kites, silver carp kites, moth kites, Leigong kites and Moonlight kites. The largest kites are two meters high and the smallest ones are two or three feet. There is a big yard in our hometown, which used to be the place where farmers dried their grain. On the day of the autumnal equinox, the village committee will organize adults and children to fly kites together. As long as the climate is suitable, there will be competitions that day. There will be children's groups, adult groups and group groups, and everyone will fly kites together, which is very happy and meaningful. I hope that in the harvest season and harvest place, the whole village will live a happy life and harvest every year, so the autumn equinox.
In addition to the above, it is also important to maintain health and raise lungs in the autumn equinox. After the autumnal equinox, the temperature drops. If your resistance is poor, it is easy to cause diseases such as colds and asthma. Therefore, we must pay attention to the maintenance of lung qi during the autumnal equinox and add clothes in time according to the weather changes. In our hometown, in terms of diet, the old people like to use their own skills to make glutinous rice, lotus root, tremella and other foods to prevent excessive internal heat, otherwise the loss will outweigh the gain. Therefore, in the autumn equinox, we must pay attention to keeping healthy and nourishing the lungs in order to have a good body. What do you think of the custom of autumnal equinox? Let's share it together.