September 23rd is the Autumn Equinox Festival, is it a harvest festival for farmers?
"Food is the most important thing for the people, and food is based on agriculture". In autumn, melons and fruits are fragrant, and wheat in the north and rice in the south are harvested. From ancient times to the present, it means that farmers can live a happy life in the coming year without starving. Therefore, on the vernal equinox, it became the "China Farmers Harvest Festival" to celebrate the farmers' harvest and look forward to next year's harvest. Therefore, in 20 18, China set up the "China Farmers Harvest Festival", and the date was set at the vernal equinox every year. This is a meaningful festival, which not only inherits and develops farming culture, but also reminds people to pay attention to food production.
The establishment of China Farmers Harvest Festival is of great significance and far-reaching influence. It can not only arouse farmers' enthusiasm and creativity in growing grain, but also make people pay attention to grain production and the work of agriculture, countryside and farmers, and firmly hold the rice bowl of food security in their own hands. "I have food in my hand, but I don't panic." It is also an ancient saying that only when they have food in their hands will they not panic. In ancient times, marching and fighting also reflected the importance of food.
In every place, we will focus on the feelings of local people and introduce a strong local flavor, which not only has rural cultural characteristics, but also suits the local rural customs and habits. We will hold various special activities to celebrate the farmers' harvest festival. It is also through this farmers' harvest festival that we can enhance farmers' sense of pride and gain, greatly mobilize their enthusiasm for growing food, and make our food more abundant. This is the function and significance of China Farmers Harvest Festival.
By September 23rd, the golden rice was ripe for our southern countryside, which also reflected the scene of planting a millet in spring and harvesting 10,000 seeds in autumn. In the rice field, it will be the busy farming season when harvesters roar, the wind blows the rice waves and the grains return to the warehouse, and the harvest festival will be greeted in a scene of jubilation and harvest.
According to the countryside, this year's lunar August is the millennium and the autumnal equinox. It is a very busy time for farmers to wait for the autumn harvest, but autumn sowing waits for no one. This year's Millennium Festival is the second day of the twelfth lunar month, and the Autumn Equinox Festival is the 28th lunar month. The two solar terms are all together, so it is very hard for farmers to be busy with autumn harvest and autumn sowing, because it is necessary to grasp the autumn sowing time well.
Let's talk about the autumnal equinox, which is the16th solar term in the twenty-four solar terms of the lunar calendar. On the day of the autumnal equinox, the time between day and night is equal, which is 12 hour. Average allocation time. After the autumnal equinox, the direct sunlight will move south, so it will be reflected slowly. The days will be shorter, the nights will be longer, and the temperature will gradually drop.
On the day of the autumnal equinox, according to different local customs, some places will hold autumn festivals, eat autumn vegetables, send autumn cows and fly kites. Flying kites is a very pleasant thing on a crisp autumn day. Watching kites rise gradually indicates that farmers' lives will get better and better.
Another meaningful thing is to erect autumn eggs. According to the countryside, there will be tens of thousands of people trying to lay eggs on the day of the autumnal equinox, and the probability of success is very high. When laying autumn eggs, the eggs just laid by chickens will also stand up. According to legend, this kind of celebration has been circulated for more than 4000 years. If you don't believe me, you can try it on the day of the autumn equinox.