Beginning of autumn Folk Activities in 2022 (Inventory) Part I? The first thing brought by beginning of autumn is the change of weather. From this day on, the sky was crisp, the moon was bright and the wind was clear, and the temperature gradually dropped. As the proverb goes, it is cool in beginning of autumn, autumn in the morning and cold at night. However, the morning and evening in early autumn are very different. The so-called cold in beginning of autumn in the early stage and hot in beginning of autumn in the later stage remind people not to be blindly optimistic about beginning of autumn. Sometimes, after beginning of autumn, there are tigers in the same place. In fact, the biggest magic weapon to cool down in beginning of autumn is rain, a rain after autumn, and a wind around the Millennium, which is the conclusion drawn by people's long-term observation.
? There is no doubt that people welcome autumn rain. People in early autumn are happy when it rains, and people are worried when it rains in summer. Under normal circumstances, beginning of autumn has a head in summer, and Sanqiu has rainy weather, which not only rains, but sometimes thunders, indicating that beginning of autumn thunders and there is frost every day. Every time it rains after beginning of autumn, the temperature will drop to a certain extent, which is called autumn rain plus a cold. However, there is no rain after beginning of autumn, which is marked by the fact that the north wind in front of beginning of autumn is followed by rain and there is no drop of water after beginning of autumn. The most direct consequences are also obvious: it doesn't rain in dry and hot autumn in beginning of autumn, and it rains in autumn in beginning of autumn.
? Beginning of autumn has a great influence on agriculture. In ancient agricultural society, farmers paid as much attention to beginning of autumn as festivals. If the weather is fine in early autumn, it will be fine, and you can wait for a bumper harvest. Similarly, beginning of autumn's morning and evening are also very important. Everything is harvested in July and lost in June and autumn. Whether it rains in beginning of autumn can't be ignored. If it rains in beginning of autumn, and if it doesn't rain in beginning of autumn, everyone will be worried, because beginning of autumn is an empty autumn, and it has always been a half harvest.
? Therefore, the beginning of autumn is still a sign of harvest. The so-called autumn is not cool, the seeds are not yellow, beginning of autumn is full of yellow for ten days, and beginning of autumn is full of grass for eighteen days. A golden autumn is coming. In this season, people plan to cultivate the most: grow eggplant in summer sowing and eat eggplant in beginning of autumn; In early autumn, buckwheat blooms with white dew, and cold dew is received by buckwheat; Beginning of autumn picked peppers, the white dew beat walnuts, the first frost picked persimmons, and beginning of winter beat soft dates. While enjoying the harvest, we should also master the rhythm of our work: beginning of autumn strolled slowly in July, beginning of autumn cheered in June, and beginning of autumn held hands. For those who have not entered the harvest period, we should also pay attention after beginning of autumn: first sow sesame seeds, then sow millet after beginning of autumn; Cotton in early autumn is well managed and pruning is essential; Sesame grows in beginning of autumn, and it will not blossom until it dies of old age.
? Beginning of autumn changed people's lives accordingly. Beginning of autumn is not only the season when all things are ripe and harvested, but also the transitional period when Yang disappears and Yin grows. Therefore, autumn health preservation has always been an important content that people can't ignore. The easiest way is to throw away the fans in autumn. Because one autumn rain and one cold, ten autumn rains need to wear cotton. It's cold, but we should also pay attention to the fact that the water is white and the body is not exposed. We should swim less after autumn. People even think that beginning of autumn won't get prickly heat and diarrhea after gastric lavage. In terms of diet and daily life, the ancients believed that autumn should not be scattered. Remember that autumn should not eat spicy food, and autumn should not eat lungs; You should also go to bed early and get up early, take chickens as fun, go to bed early to conform to the convergence of yang, and get up early to stretch your lungs, which is in line with the way of keeping in good health in autumn.
Beginning of autumn Folk Activities in 2022 (Inventory) Part II? The beginning of Mid-Autumn Festival
? Beginning of autumn Festival, also known as July Festival. Time begins on August 7th or 8th of the Gregorian calendar every year. In the Zhou Dynasty, it was the Japanese emperor who personally led the princes and doctors from three counties and six counties to the western suburbs to welcome the autumn and hold a ceremony of offering sacrifices to Shao Hao and Ru Shou (see "Moon Sacrifice Order"). The Han Dynasty still inherited this custom. Sacrifice records in the Book of Later Han Dynasty: On the day of beginning of autumn, the western suburbs welcomed the autumn and offered sacrifices to Bai Di Ru Shou. Flags and costumes are all white, singing the song "Xihao" and dancing "Yu Ming". And the son of heaven went into the nursery to shoot sacrifices to recommend the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the ancestral temple, and he was appointed to be Liu. Qiu Lai Wu Yang said, kill animals as sacrifices. In the Tang Dynasty, every day in beginning of autumn, five emperors were also sacrificed. Records of Rites and Music in the New Tang Dynasty: beginning of winter, beginning of autumn, four suburbs worship five emperors. In the Song Dynasty, on that day in beginning of autumn, both men and women wore catalpa leaves to match the time sequence. There is a custom of cutting and carving the petals of heather red leaves and inserting them into temples, and there is also a custom of swallowing seven small red beans in autumn water (see Lin 'an Year), which obviously inherits the Song custom. In the Qing Dynasty, on the day when the Mid-Autumn Festival began, people weighed themselves with hanging scales and compared them with those who weighed themselves in summer to test their obesity in summer. Since the Republic of China, in the vast rural areas, people are used to predicting the hot and cold weather in beginning of autumn during the day or 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.
? Touch autumn
? August 15th in the summer calendar is the Mid-Autumn Festival. That night, the childless woman after marriage, accompanied by her sister-in-law or other female companions, secretly groped for melons and beans in the fields under the fruit stand and bean shed, hence the name "Touching Autumn". It is often said that touching pumpkins is easy to have boys; Touching lentils is easy to give birth to girls; Touching white lentils is more auspicious, besides giving birth to girls, it is a good sign to grow old together. According to traditional customs, the owner of the garden can't blame them who picked the night melon beans. No matter how late aunt comes home, parents are not allowed to criticize her. This custom existed before the Qing Dynasty and has been circulated among the people since the Republic of China. For example, in Zhulinguan area of Shangluo, on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, before the moon came out, the children got into the nearby autumn fields as usual and touched something to go home. If you touch onions, parents think that children grow up smart; If you touch the melon and fruit, parents think that the child will eat and drink in the future and everything will be fine. People regard touching autumn as a game and don't punish stealing. From this day on, parents should restrain their children. In Gua Tian, they are not allowed to take other people's branches or leaves. In Shangnan County, on Mid-Autumn Festival night, after eating moon cakes, children who refuse to grow tall touch sorghum. People without boys touch eggplant; No girls. People touch peppers; Children who are not smart touch onions.
? Busy meetings in autumn
? Autumn busy meeting is usually held in July and August of the lunar calendar, which is a business meeting to prepare for autumn busy. Some are held in conjunction with temple fairs, and some are specially held for the lively autumn. Its purpose is to exchange production tools, sell livestock and exchange food and daily necessities. Its scale is the same as that of Summer Busy Fair, including mule and horse market, grain market, farm tools production market, cloth market and Beijing-Guangzhou grocery market. Today, such gatherings are called economic and trade exchanges. During the meeting, there will be cultural performances, horse racing, monkey tricks and other cultural programs to entertain.
? Autumn harvest mutual assistance
? Autumn is busy, and there is a custom of mutual assistance in autumn harvest in rural areas. You help me, I help you, and go to the fields in groups of three or five to grab the cooked corn. A corn should be moved four times: the first crop, the second crop, the third crop and the empty crop. Women, old people and teenagers carry bamboo cages in rows, one by one. Don't let the monkeys move the corn, one at a time. Instead, I moved one and put it in a cage, then put it in the corn ear pile in the field, and finally pulled it home with a cart. Remove the mature ear of the first crop of corn and the immature ear of the second crop of corn. The second and third crops move in the same way. Finally, the empty stubble is fished out, and the remaining ears of corn, old or young, are moved home together. See whose corn matures early, and move it to whom first, so as not to go against the farming season, but also to return the grain to the warehouse.