Equinox around what autumnal equinox customs, folk customs

Equinox had is a traditional festival "the month.Such as the ancient "anniversary, spring autumn offering month".Now,The Mid-Autumn festivalIs from the traditional "offering month festival".According to research, the original "month festival" is set in "the autumnal equinox" on this day, but because of the day in the day of the lunar calendar in August every year is different, does not have a full moon.While offering month without a month is the streetscape.So, later will be "the month festival" by "the autumnal equinox" to the Mid-Autumn festival.

According to historical records, as early as the zhou dynasty, the ancient emperors have rite, the summer solstice offering the vernal equinox, autumnal equinox, the custom of the winter solstice to worship offering month.The sacrificial places called ritan, ditan, 20:30 liu jianhua calls, the temple of heaven.Set up in the southeast of the northwest four directions.20:30 liu jianhua calls in Beijing is the place where Ming and qing emperors ceremonies."Rites" : "son of heaven spring asahi, chuseok month.The asahi, evening evening months."In this case, the evening evening months, it is sacrifice to the moon at night.This custom is not only for the court and pursues the aristocracy, along with the development of the society, also gradually affect the folk.

The egg

(image: autumnal equinox egg)

In the autumnal equinox day, every year around the world will have to millions of people are doing "the egg" test.This is referred to as "China custom", how to become a "game of the world", it is difficult to textual research.But the style is simple and full of fun: select a smooth and trim, and just give birth to the fresh of the four or five dayseggs, softly on the table to it.Although there are many losers, but many winners, too.Equinox is the best time of the egg game, therefore has "the autumnal equinox, egg, qiao".Landscape of our stand.

Eat autumn vegetable

(image: autumn vegetable)

In lingnan area, the former SiYi (now add heshan of wuyi) as the division director surnamed xie of kaiping pale town, do not have a festival custom, called "autumnal equinox autumn vegetable"."Autumn vegetable" is a kind of wild amaranth, fellow villager called "autumn garden artemisia".On the autumnal equinox day, the whole village went to pick autumn vegetable.Search in the field, see more is pale green, tree carefully, length about slap.Taken back to the autumn vegetable general home and fillet roll "soup", called "autumn" soup.Have a phrase: "autumn soup pouring dirty, washing deeply.Family, old and young, ping an health."One year since the autumn, people pray for peace or home, body strong force.

god

(image: autumnal equinox worship)

Before and after the autumnal equinox folk festival has opened on February 15, get a saint king's birthday: open get st., also known as "king Chen Sheng" king of the tang dynasty Wu Jinshi Chen yuanguang, to get a continent, after death be get a patron.On 19 February avalokitesvara's birthday, birthday, believers RuSuJi more, to the goddess of mercytempleWorship.On February 15th three mountain king death: three mountain king refers to jieyang county of guangdong chaozhou state of dushan, daming mountain, wipes the mountains three mountain god, early autumn as the patron saint of chaozhou hakka immigrants, so the believer is given priority to with hakka people.

Send in the autumn of cow

(image: autumn cows)

Equinox to namely, then went to autumn NiuTu time is emerging.The figure is out red paper or yellow paper printed on a second annual lunar solar terms, also printed on the farmer plow pattern, called "autumn NiuTu".Send figure who is all some kind words to sing folk, main said some autumn ploughing and auspicious don't interfere with farming, every one is JiJingShengQing, see what say what, said master le and give money.Though words freely, but there are beautiful.Commonly known as "said cho," said cho who was called "autumn officer".

Stick the birds have a mouth

(caption: stick the birds have mouth)

Autumnal equinox according to customs all the farmers off this day, every eat soup yuan, but also be wrapped without heart more than ten or twenty or thirty cooked soup yuan, with fine bamboo fork stand in outdoor tanabe to camp, called stick the birds have a mouth, so that the birds have to damage the crops.During the autumnal equinox or the children a good time to fly a kite.Especially the autumnal equinox day.Even the adults involved.Kite kite categories have king word, silver carp kite, kite, narrow moth tripterygium wilfordii insect kite, kite moon light, large two metres high, small also have two or three feet.Are sold on the market of kites, much smaller, suitable forThe childThe child to play, and most or paste, larger, even when put competing to see which put too high.