The beginning of autumn tradition

Section 1, the beginning of autumn

The beginning of autumn festival, also known as section in July.Time each year in the Gregorian calendar on August 7 or 8.In the zhou dynasty is right head thereof six qing governors doctor, to the west into the autumn, and sacrifices, Ru ceremony, less hao (see "li si · enveloped").Han dynasty is still bearing the vulgar.", were sacrifice, tzu chi ":" the date of beginning of autumn, to meet the autumn in the western suburbs, the filled Ru, car flag dress all white, song "west sea", eight Yi dance the dance of "life education".And right into the nursery shot sacrifice, to commend on of ancestral temple, liu the name day.Kill the beast with offerings, said qiu Yang wu."In the tang dynasty, when the autumn, also sacrifice sovereigns.":" the new tang book · reed beginning of autumn winter begins realms of five emperors in the suburbs."In song dynasty and the beginning of autumn day, men and women all wear Chinese catalpa, in sequence.Have to heather cut the red petals Dan temples to the edge of the customs, also have to stop to devour the small red bean 7 custom (see "at the age of linan"), Ming song vulgar.In the qing dynasty at the beginning of autumn day, hanging scale, and the scale, compared to the number of summer to check and fat in the summer.Since the republic of China, in the countryside, in the beginning of autumn day, day or night a 16-month of cold hot weather.And watermelon, green beans taste a fresh delicacy, drink them to customs.And before the beginning of autumn day, old ice melon, steamed in tomato pulp, Fried Chinese mosla herb drinks such as customs.

2, touch the autumn

A summer August 15th, it is forThe Mid-Autumn festival.Night after marriage has not yet been reproductive women, accompanied by sister-in-law or other partners, to the field GuaJia, beans, groping his harvest melon beans, therefore touch of autumn.Common refers to touch the pumpkin, they are easyboys;Touch the lentils, they are easyGave birth to a girl;Touch the white lentils more geely, in addition to the girls, or both a lifetime of good one million.According to the traditional customs, night melon beans be picking, pastoral owner may not be to blame.Period of home late again, parents also forbid to criticism.This is common in qing dynasty ago, since the republic of China still circulating in the folk.As in the bamboo forest clearance shangluo region, the Mid-Autumn festival night, the children, when the moon has not yet come out, as usual, drilling near autumn fields, the same things home.If touch the onion, the parents think the child grow up is very clever;If you touch the melon and fruit, parents think children don't want to eat and drink in the future, everything is smooth.People regard "touch autumn" for the game, not for theft.After that day, parents to restrain the child, not into the unshaded took a leaf.Shangnan residents, on the night of the Mid-Autumn festival, eat moon cakes, refused to grow tallerThe childTo touch sorghum;The boy's family to touch eggplant;Not the girl's family to touch hot pepper;Children don't smart people to touch the green onion.

3, autumn will busy

Busy autumn will generally held in the lunar July and August, in order to meet the autumn busy to prepare business trade conference.Combined with temple activities held, also has a single trade conference held for the busy autumn.Its purpose is to exchange the production tools, sell cattle, exchange of food and supplies, etc.Its size and busy summer games, lies the city, city, farm implements grain production city, cloth, beijing-guangzhou groceries, etc.The class meeting today, called "economic and trade exchange conference".Will and drama performances, monkey, sacred and other entertainment programs.

4, the autumn harvest and mutual assistance

Autumn busy start, rural areas have the custom of "autumn harvest and mutual assistance", could you help me I help you, groups to the field and rush in the harvest is ripe corn.A feed corn to move four times: TouCha, two or three crops, get empty.Women, the elderly, teenage children, their laptop bamboo cage, row after row, one after another, to height to move.Avoid by all means "monkey moved corn, move a pile."But move a in the cage, and then on the heap of corn in field, with pull cart home finally.TouCha first move has matured corn, immature ear of corn, to stay second crop to move again.Two or three crops are in the same way to move.Finally get empty, the rest of the ear of corn, regardless of the old nun, move back together.See whose corn mature early, who moved first to, don't interfere with farming, both particles to warehouse.

5, akita entertainment

In autumn, especially in the autumn of before, during and after the busy farming is busy, the autumn harvest, autumn ploughing busy busy!Common some young people but also have fun, and more than 10 years old children, in the corn, millet, broom corn millet after growing up, especially corn grown into a high, knot SuiEr, at the beginning of the field that they play, play.They carry the tender package grain down, dig a hole in underground kiln, stay on the chimney, is a natural range, and then put in the soft bag of grain, to gather firewood everywhere, top of corn flower is a very good fuel, the fire to burn.In a short while a full grain kiln bag full burned ripe, rich corn banquet will be held in the field.They also to catch sparrows on the tree eggs, in situThe rabbit, a lot of meat to eat, can be in the wilderness of pot, burn out.Meat producers, subway.They also get from persimmon, red tiaoxi, put in TuYaoDong, wen to burn an hour, it becomes sweet persimmon.This autumn the fun in the field, to pass down from one generation to another.

6, stick to fall fat

Folk pop at the beginning of autumn day to hang a scale, the weight of summer and the contrast.Because the person is in summer, have no appetite, the light simple meals, two or three months, we need to reduce weight.The autumn wind, appetite is big, like to eat well, add a bit of nutrition, to make up for the loss of the summer, to fill the way is to "stick to fall fat" : in the beginning of autumn day all kinds of meat, stew meat braise in soy sauce meat, and so on, "to the meat fat".

7, chewing autumn

In some places, also known as "chew autumn" autumn "bite".Tianjin pay attention to in the beginning of autumn day to eat watermelon or cantaloupe, called "bit autumn", the moral sorching summer heat, comes at the beginning of autumn, to bite it.Jiangsu also at the beginning of autumn day to eat watermelon to autumn "bite", it is said that can not born in the autumn of prickly heat.In places such as zhejiang, autumn in watermelon and wine with food, folk thought to prevent malaria.City at the beginning of autumn day buy a watermelon go home, the family around the chew, chew autumn.While the farmer's chew autumn uninhibited and much more.They in GuaPeng, in the shade, groups, and sit on the floor, holding the red watermelon eating flesh, holding the green melon face flesh, carried a whisked potato chew, holding a golden yellow corn on the cob.Chew autumn expresses, in fact, a kind of harvest of joy.

8, autumn club

Autumn's original sacrifices to land gods is the autumn days, began in the han dynasty, the later will fall after the club at the beginning of autumn the fifth e day.The harvest has been finished, and the rulers and folk sacrifice thank god in the day.Song Shiqiu club have food cake, drinking, the vulgar of women's mothering.Tang Han Wo "invisible" poem: "the body will make your barn swallows, autumn clubs to also don't return."In some places, there is still "to do", "god worship club", "the club cook porridge.