When is beginning of autumn in 2022?
When is beginning of autumn in 2022?
The time in beginning of autumn in 2022 is Sunday, August 7, 2022, and July 10, the Year of the Tiger.
Beginning of autumn, the 13 solar term in 24 solar terms, is the first solar term in autumn, which falls on August 7-9 of the Gregorian calendar every year. At this time, the bucket handle of the Big Dipper points southwest, and the sun reaches longitude 135. The 24 solar terms reflect the changes of "Qi" in the four seasons. Beginning of autumn is the node where the yang gradually closes, the yin gradually grows, and the yang gradually turns to yin. Beginning of autumn, which also means precipitation and humidity, is at the turning point of the year, with a downward or decreasing trend; In nature, everything begins to grow from lush to mature.
Traditional customs in early autumn
Sacrifice to the land god: Autumn is the harvest season, and there is a custom of sacrificing to the land god to celebrate the harvest.
Eating autumn melons: In the south, there is a custom that "beginning of autumn eats autumn melons". Eat more watermelons in autumn to prevent autumn dryness and form a custom for a long time. Zizhi, published in the Republic of China, records: "beginning of autumn ate watermelon the day before, which is called gnawing autumn." It also means welcoming the arrival of autumn. [
Sticking autumn weight: It is popular to weigh people with hanging scales in early autumn, and compare them with those in long summer to measure their fatness. Losing weight is called "bitter summer". At that time, people often judged health only by being fat and thin. Of course, weight loss needs to be "supplemented", and the way to make up is to "paste autumn fertilizer".
Sunbathing in autumn: Sunbathing in autumn is a typical agricultural custom phenomenon with strong regional characteristics. Villagers living in mountainous areas such as Hunan, Guangxi, Anhui and Jiangxi. It has become a traditional agricultural custom to use the roof in front of the house and the window sill to hang crops.
For a long time, in the vast rural areas of China, people used to predict the hot and cold weather in beginning of autumn during the day or at night. 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.
Meteorological changes in early autumn
The beginning of autumn doesn't mean the end of hot weather. After beginning of autumn, there is a summer solar term, and summer comes after the summer solar term. As the saying goes, "Big summer and small summer are not summer, and summer in beginning of autumn is just summer." The so-called "heat is in three volts", according to the calculation method of "three volts", beginning of autumn is often still in the "three volts" period until the summer heat, so the weather is still very hot in early autumn. The watershed of summer heat is not at the turn of summer and autumn. Therefore, it is too early for beginning of autumn to immediately cool down. After beginning of autumn, the summer heat was hard to disappear, and there was the afterglow of "autumn tiger".
At present, the "weather average temperature method" is often used to divide the four seasons, and the average daily temperature for five consecutive days is between 10℃ and 22℃. In fact, according to the standard of dividing seasons in climatology, beginning of autumn will be when the average daily temperature drops below 22℃ in the second half of the year. Except for the summer-free areas connected with the spring and autumn all the year round, few areas in China have entered the "climate average temperature" in beginning of autumn (between 10℃ and 22℃ for five consecutive days).
Beginning of autumn means rainfall, humidity, etc. It is at the turning point of the year and tends to decrease or decline. Seasonal changes, rainfall, rainstorm, dry and wet changes in southern China are obvious; In the north, the obvious change is the temperature. After entering autumn, in nature, the qi of Yin and Yang began to change, everything began to grow from lush to mature, and the climate began to transition from rainy and humid in summer to dry and rainy in autumn.