What does beginning of autumn mean?
I. beginning of autumn
1 refers to the southwest, and the sun reaches 135, which is celebrated on August 7 or 8 of the Gregorian calendar every year. "Reason" means the beginning; "Autumn" means that the grain is ripe.
2. The change of the whole nature is a step-by-step process, and beginning of autumn is the turning point when the yang gradually closes and the yin gradually grows. In nature, everything begins to mature from luxuriance.
3. beginning of autumn is the third hot solar term among the 24 solar terms, second only to summer heat and summer heat. According to the order of solar terms, beginning of autumn is followed by summer, and autumn is the second solar term "Summer comes" (the last summer).
4. Twenty-four solar terms include "three summers" (little summer, big summer and midsummer), and there is a "beginning of autumn" solar term in the middle of the "three summers", followed by summer (final summer) in beginning of autumn.
"Three summers" and "dog days" both represent hot and extremely hot weather, and "dog days" involve four solar terms: mild summer, severe summer, autumn and the beginning of summer. Among the 24 solar terms, the days in summer are longer.
Beginning of autumn means precipitation, humidity, etc. It is at the turning point of the year and tends to decrease or decline. Since beginning of autumn, the sun be the spirit gradually closed, and everything was restrained. Beginning of autumn, beginning of spring, long summer and beginning of winter, also known as the "Four Estates", are also one of the "Four Seasons and Eight Festivals" in ancient times.
7. Autumn is the season of grain ripening and harvest. At the beginning of autumn, there was a custom of offering sacrifices to the land gods and celebrating the harvest in ancient times. There are also customs such as "pasting autumn fat" and "biting autumn".
Second, farming activities.
1, "autumn" means that the crops are almost ripe. Since beginning of autumn, the sun be the spirit gradually closed, everything was restrained, and it began to move from luxuriant to mature.
2. Twenty-four solar terms reflect the change of "Qi" in four seasons. Beginning of autumn is the node where the yang gradually closes, the yin gradually grows, and the yang gradually turns to yin.
There is still a volt after autumn. Before and after beginning of autumn, the temperature was still high in most parts of China, and all kinds of crops grew vigorously. Mid-season rice blooms and bears fruit, stems are round, and soybeans bear pods.
Corn is sprouting and spinning, cotton is spitting, sweet potato tuber is expanding rapidly, and the demand for water is very urgent. The drought in this period will cause irreparable damage to the final harvest of crops.