Today's autumn equinox!The temperature difference is 7 ° C!Do you feel cool there?

"Yan will go tomorrow, and Qiu will be divided into this time." At 9:44 on September 23, Beijing time, we will usher in the autumnal equinox solar terms. Affected by cold air, the temperature of Henan Province decreased by about 6-7 ° C yesterday. Do you feel cool?

Autumn equinox also means that the golden autumn season with full and fragrant melon fruit has arrived. At this time, the autumn of the year is strong, and the fragrance of ten miles of osmanthus is just like the ancients of the ancients.

Tianjin folk experts and columnist are introduced by National Day. As a festival that reflects the changes in the season, from September 22 to 24 of the Gregorian calendar, when the sun reaches 180 degrees of the Huangmen, it is the beginning of the autumn equinox. Sixteen solar terms are also the fourth solar terms in autumn.

Like the spring equinox, on the day of the autumn equinox, day, night, cold and summer, yin and yang are all divided and in a balanced state. The difference is that the spring equinox has been divided into spring. From the spring equinox, the northern hemisphere is short and longer during the day and nights. The autumnal equinox is just the opposite. It has been divided into autumn. From then on, the northern hemisphere is short and shorter during the day and nights.

In the autumnal equinox season, although the temperature gradually decreases, the weather slowly turns cold, but the thick or light autumn colors also start to spread like a palette, condensed in yellow and red tones: chrysanthemums, ears of rice, orange, yellow decent, Elegant, full, and brilliant; maple leaves, pepper, persimmons, are red, unrestrained, and free, and jointly weave a colorful natural autumn scenery.

This beautiful and intoxicated autumn also made the literati and the guests think of the spring, which gave birth to many eternal poems. Autumn color waves, cold smoke green "and so on.

In the autumnal equinox season, the "three autumn" of autumn harvest, autumn plowing, and autumn species in most parts of my country are busy. In 2018, the autumn equinox was designated as a Chinese farmer's harvest festival. Today, we will usher in the fifth Chinese farmers' harvest festival.

This festival is approved by the State Council, and is the first festival specially set up for farmers at the national level. On September 23, the Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival (Luohe), which was executed by Henan Radio and Television Station, will be held in Lintian County, Luohe City, so stay tuned!

Stick to the mouth

The beautiful vision of pinching the rice harvest

"One wait thunder starts to accept the sound; the second waiting of the insect household; the three waiting water begins." Open the ancient book records, you can see that the ancients scratched the autumn equinox into three, meaning that the thunder was sounded because of the yang. So after the autumn equinox, no longer thunder. At the same time, the weather became cold. "The weather is dry after the autumnal equinox, so the amount of water in the lake and the river becomes less, and some swamps and pudding begin to dry up." Liu Xiaochang, a folk expert, said.

"Moon -colored Autumn Map" Liaoning Provincial Museum Collection

When it comes to the autumn equinox custom of the farmhouse, it is very interesting, and it has to count "sticky bird's mouth". "Most of the days in the past autumn equinox are not working, and they will rest for a day." According to Liu Xiaochang, the farmers still eat the dumplings of brown sugar and sesame stuffing on this day, but when women in the family have dumplings the day before, they will always prepare a few preparations. A white dumplings that do not include filling.

"After cooking these white dumplings and cooling, put them up on the tip of a slender bamboo pole, and then insert these bamboo poles in the corner of the field to let birds peck the dumplings." The intention of this move is that farmers hope that sticky dumplings can stick to the sparrow's mouth, lest they eat food seeds to destroy crops. "Sometimes my wife at home, while thinking about a few words, let the birds say that the birds eat the dumplings and don't destroy the crops. Of course, the custom of the peasant's sticky mouth also implies a beautiful wish, that is hope The rice harvest is harvested, and the planted crops can not be damaged. "

Wangnan Jixing

Get a good sign

Push the time forward, you can find a very old autumnal equinox custom called "waiting for Antarctica", which is to watch Antarctic Star. But at the moment, few people have known this custom.

Because China is located in the northern hemisphere, the Antarctic Star can only be seen after the autumn equinox in one year, and it is easy to disappear. In the cognition of the ancients, the Antarctic Star was regarded as Antarctica, which is the Shouxing, and believed that it was a god in charge of longevity. The ancients recognized Antarctic Star as a symbol of Xiangrui, so on the day of the autumn equinox, they went to look at this star stay.

"Mountain Autumn Color Picture" Wuhan Museum Collection

In the "Historical Records of the Book of Tiandiguan": "Elderly Antarctica, public security; often in autumn equinox, wait for the southern suburbs." On the day of autumn equinox, the emperors led the group ministers to welcome Antarctic Star in the southern suburbs.

For the old people in the old days, it is also a sign of the Antarctic Star in the autumnal equinox. "Although there are not many opportunities to see Antarctic Star in the autumnal equinox day, people still have hope. Usually, before the sky is, the whole family gets up and stands on the streets of the street or pond. When you are lucky, you will look at this Antarctic Star. "Liu Xiaochang said specially that the time to see the Antarctic Star is generally not bright morning, and it must be a clear night sky. Essence For the person who sees, it is a good sign.

(Source: Xinhua News Agency, cover news)

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