Every year in beginning of autumn, with the maturity of fruits and vegetables, Huangling enters the most prosperous season of sunbathing in autumn. Sunbathing in autumn is a typical agricultural custom. Villagers living in mountainous areas such as Hunan, Jiangxi and Anhui. Because of the complex terrain and little flat land in their village, they have to use the front and back of their houses and their own windowsills and roofs to hang or dry crops. Over time, this has evolved into a traditional agricultural custom.
This special lifestyle and scene of villagers drying crops has gradually become the material pursued and created by painters and photographers, and created a poetic name "drying autumn".
2. 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. Nowadays, this kind of gathering is called "economic and trade exchange meeting". During the meeting, there will be cultural performances, horse racing, monkey tricks and other cultural programs to entertain.
3. Akita Entertainment Company
Autumn, especially around the autumn harvest, is busy with farming, but autumn planting and autumn harvest are very busy! However, there is fun in busy work. When corn, millet and millet grow up, it is common for some teenagers and teenagers to play in the fields, especially when the corn grows to one person's height and heads first.
They removed the ears of tender corn and dug a hole in the ground, leaving a chimney, which is a natural earthen stove. Then they put the tender ears of corn in and collected firewood everywhere. The flowers on the top of corn are good fuel, which increases the burning fire. In a short time, the ears of corn in the whole kiln were ripe, and a rich corn feast was held in the field.
They will also catch sparrow eggs in trees and shoot rabbits on the spot. They can eat a lot of game, which can be cooked in a pot outside the field. There are meat and vegetables, all kinds of flavors. They also put the persimmons they called in and the Hongshan medicine they got in the soil hole for one hour, which will turn them into sweet persimmons. Akita's pleasure has been passed down from generation to generation.
4. Paste autumn fertilizer
In early autumn, people are popular to weigh themselves with hanging scales and compare them with those in long summer. Because people have no appetite in summer, and the food is light and simple. After two or three months, they will be thinner. With the autumn wind, my appetite is wide open. I want to eat something good, supplement some nutrition and make up for the loss in summer. The remedy is to "paste autumn fat": on this day in beginning of autumn, all kinds of meats, stews, barbecued braised pork, etc., "paste fat with meat".
5. Autumn House
Autumn society was originally a day to worship the land god in autumn, which began in Han Dynasty. Later generations set the Autumn Festival on the fifth day after beginning of autumn. At this time, the harvest has been completed, and the government and people have sacrificed to God to show their gratitude. In Song Shiqiu society, there were customs of eating cakes, drinking wine and women visiting their mothers. Tang Han Wo's poem "No See": "I am willing to be a royal swallow, and the autumn society will not return." In some places, there are still sayings of "running a cooperative", "respecting the god of the cooperative" and "cooking porridge for the cooperative".
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-beginning of autumn