The handwritten newspaper about autumn is very simple.
People often judge health only by being fat, which is futile. In the Qing Dynasty, people used hanging scales to call people when they were in beginning of autumn. Compare the weight with that of Chang Xia to test the physical health of that summer. If you lose weight, you should "make up" after beginning of autumn. The way is to "paste autumn fertilizer" and eat delicious food. Generally speaking, meat is the main food, and "meat sticks to fat". On this day, ordinary people eat stewed meat, while cultured people eat boiled meat and braised pork, as well as jiaozi, stewed chicken, stewed duck and braised fish. In Anda, Heilongjiang Province, beginning of autumn eats noodles every day, which is called "grabbing autumn fat" to bless health. In Zunhua, Hebei, eating fruit and meat is called "filling autumn fertilizer".
Speaking of Bailuyuan, the old Nanjing who loves tea has a special liking for "Bailuyuan Tea". At this time, after the summer heat, the tea tree grows well before and after the Millennium. Bailu tea is neither as fresh and tender as spring tea, nor as dry and bitter as summer tea, but it has a unique sweet and mellow taste, which is especially loved by old tea customers. Moreover, the spring tea stored at home has basically been "consumed", and at this time, Bailu tea is being picked up, so before and after Bailu, a tea customer asked someone to buy some Bailu tea.
The ancients originally set up cooperatives to pray for the smooth holding of spring ploughing, and later advocated the practice of "spring praying for autumn newspaper", so they set up autumn cooperatives on the occasion of the autumnal equinox and solar terms, just as the initial wedges were just spring wedges on the third day of March, such as Lanting Qushui Liu Jin, and then held games on good days in the spring and autumn, so there was an autumn wedge. Probably people think that spring ploughing is about to start and autumn ploughing is over, so we should hold activities to express our gratitude.
During the autumn harvest, farmers cut new rice, which is generally called opening the rice gate. All new rice cooked for the first time should be sacrificed to ancestors and land gods, and then family members should be called to eat together. This is called eating new or offering new. The same is true of ethnic minorities in some areas. Most ethnic minorities in western Sichuan and eastern Xizang Autonomous Region try new things on June 24, with buckwheat ripening as the day to try new things; In Mianning and Yue Yong, on July 15, rice matured and became a new flavor. In case of leap month, one month in advance. On the day of tasting new food, harvest new buckwheat or new rice to make rice, and use another hen of that year. Rich people want to slaughter sheep to show their love for rice grains and repay their kindness without forgetting their roots.