What are the meanings and traditions of beginning of autumn solar terms and traditional beginning of autumn solar terms?

1, beginning of autumn is the node where Yang gradually closes and Yin gradually grows, and Yang gradually turns to Yin. Autumn means precipitation, humidity, etc. At the turning point of the year, there is a downward or decreasing trend; In nature, everything begins to grow from lush to mature.

2. beginning of autumn Festival, also known as July Festival. During the Zhou Dynasty, the Japanese Emperor personally led three princes, princes and doctors of six ministers to the western suburbs to welcome the autumn, and held a ceremony of offering sacrifices to Shao Hao and Ru Shou. The Han Dynasty still inherited this custom. In the Tang Dynasty, every day in beginning of autumn, five emperors were also sacrificed.

In Song Dynasty, on that day in beginning of autumn, both men and women wore catalpa leaves to keep up with the time sequence. There is the custom of cutting petals and sticking them on the temples with heather red leaves, and there is also the custom of swallowing seven small red beans with autumn water, which obviously inherits the Song custom. In the Qing Dynasty, on the day when the Mid-Autumn Festival began, people weighed themselves with hanging scales and compared them with those who weighed themselves in summer to test their obesity in summer.

4. For a long time, in the vast rural areas of China, people are used to predicting the hot and cold weather during the day or night in early autumn. There is also the custom of tasting new things with watermelon and green beans and offering sacrifices to ancestors. On the day before beginning of autumn, Chen Bing had the customs of eating melons, steaming eggplant and frying fragrant incense.