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What are the customs in the south during the cold dew season?

Cold dew is the seventeenth of the twenty-four solar terms and belongs to the fifth solar term in autumn.

Meaning: Dew is cold and will freeze.

Moral: the temperature is lower than that of the Millennium, and it feels a little chilly in the morning and evening.

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Climate: The temperature drops, with little rain and dryness, and the morning dew is cooler.

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The cold weather with dew is very beneficial to the autumn harvest. There is an agricultural proverb: yellow fireworks should also be collected, and adult fish should also be collected with lotus roots. Soybean is harvested in the cold open air, pomegranate and hawthorn are picked.

The cold dew weather turns from cold to cold, so people should pay attention to prevent autumn dryness. Therefore, there is also a folk custom of "eating sesame seeds in cold dew", and there is a proverb that "sesame and mung bean cakes are not long enough to eat".

September of the lunar calendar is also called Chrysanthemum Month, and chrysanthemums are basically open. Therefore, climbing the mountain and enjoying chrysanthemums is called a great event in the cold dew season.