What's the date of September 8, 2023?

Millennium is the15th solar term in the "twenty-four solar terms", and the third solar term in autumn is the end of the application of the moon in the lunar calendar and the beginning of the unitary month. Fighting fingers; The sun reaches longitude 165 degrees; Gregorian calendar September 7-9.

"White dew" is an important solar term reflecting the growth of cold in nature. As the cold air turns to attack, it is sunny and hot during the day, but the temperature drops rapidly after the evening, and the temperature difference between day and night gradually widens.

During the white dew, the summer monsoon is gradually replaced by the winter monsoon, and the cold air changes from defense to attack. In addition, when the direct point of the sun moves south, the sunshine time in the northern hemisphere becomes shorter, the light intensity weakens, and the ground radiation dissipates heat quickly, so the cooling speed gradually accelerates.

The Millennium basically ended the sweltering heat in summer, and the weather gradually turned cold, and the cold gave birth to dew condensation. The ancients used four seasons to match five elements. Autumn belongs to gold, gold and white alternate with each other, and autumn dew is described in white, hence the name "White Dew".

Millennium customs:

1, sacrifice to Yu Wang

People living in Taihu Lake in Jiangsu Province will make sacrifices to Yu Wang in the Millennium. Yu Wang is the legendary hero of water control, Dayu. Fishermen on Taihu Lake call him "Waterway Bodhisattva". Every year, on the eighth day of the first month, Tomb-Sweeping Day, the seventh day of July, and White Deer Festival, there will be ceremonies to burn incense to Yu Wang, among which Tomb-Sweeping Day and White Deer Spring and Autumn Festival are the largest and last for one week.

2, ten kinds of white

In Wenzhou, Zhejiang and other places, there has also been the custom of Millennium Festival. In Cangnan, Pingyang and other places, people collect "ten kinds of whites" (there are also "three kinds of whites") on this day to stew black-bone white-haired chickens (or ducks).

3. Autumn House

Autumn Society and Spring Society are both "social days" to worship the land gods in ancient times. In ancient times, the land god and the place where the land god was sacrificed were called "clubs". According to folk custom, people should set up clubs to worship, pray or reward the land gods every sowing or harvesting season.

Autumn clubs are usually held on the fifth day after beginning of autumn, about forty days after beginning of autumn, and usually around the millennium and the vernal equinox. This is a festival to celebrate the harvest and offer sacrifices to the gods.

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