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CTOnews.com August 8 news today is the Beginning of Autumn, the 13th of the 24 solar terms, and also the first solar term in autumn, from August 7 to 9 of each year.

The Beginning of Autumn, as the name implies, even after summer and autumn, after the Beginning of Autumn, although the summer heat will continue, the overall trend of the weather is gradually becoming cool and excessive, and there is also a folk saying that "one autumn rain and one cool".

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On August 7 or 8 of each year, the Beginning of Autumn is the Beginning of Autumn when the sun reaches the yellow longitude, in which "stand" means the beginning, and "autumn" is the period when the crops mature. In the ancient Chinese classics, "Yueling 72 Hou Ji Jie" has a record: "Autumn, pull also, things are also gathered here", indicating that the Beginning of Autumn is not only the beginning of the weather from hot to cool, but also the time when the vegetation begins to bear a child. The ancients also divided the Beginning of Autumn into three phases: "the first is a cool breeze; the second is White Dew's birth; and the third is the singing of cold cicadas."

There are also some interesting folklore about the Beginning of Autumn. It is said that a long time ago, there were seven suns in the sky. At that time, the trees were evergreen, the flowers were invincible, the crops were harvested seven times a year, and people's lives were very peaceful. But then, a night cat spirit appeared, it loved the night, resented the sun, and later became an iron man with an olecranon, shooting down six suns, and the last sun hid out of fear, and the world went dark. People expect the sun to come out again, so they choose the most capable person to find the sun. Finally, people chose three Yi girls, who were both smart and brave, and worked with people to eliminate night owls.

After the elimination of night owls, the three Yi girls began to look for the last sun. they followed the place where the sun disappeared for a long time, but still could not find it. after climbing thousands of mountains and rivers, the hair of the three girls had grown to the ground and became as white as snow. Then they met an old man, and the old man said, they need to wait here all the time. On the Beginning of Autumn's day, a young man will ride here. He is the seventh sun you are looking for. Later, the young man really arrived, but by this time the lives of the three girls were already very weak. They said to the young man, "Sun, you can't leave us." if you leave us, the crops will not ripen, the cattle and sheep will not grow, and the flowers will not bloom. Sun, rise up. " Finally, the place where they stood turned into three high mountains, holding up a round of the sun. Since then, whenever the Beginning of Autumn is on this day, people will dance songs happily in memory of the three girls who found the sun for the world.

The Beginning of Autumn climate China has a vast territory, although the climate is different in different places, but at this time most areas have not yet entered the autumn climate, and the last rest of the hot dog days is still on the 3rd day after the Beginning of Autumn. Especially when it is still summer in this solar term in southern China, and because the rainy season in Taiwan is gradually passing, and the temperature is even hotter, Chinese medicine calls the period from the Beginning of Autumn to the Autumn Equinox a "long summer".

Before and after the Beginning of Autumn, the temperature in most parts of China is still relatively high, all kinds of crops grow vigorously, medium rice blossoms and bears fruit, single-night round stalks, soybean pods, corn silking, cotton bolls, and sweet potato pieces expand rapidly. the demand for water is very urgent, and the drought in this period will cause irreparable losses to the final harvest of crops. Therefore, there is a saying that "the Beginning of Autumn had three rains and blighted rice turned into rice."

After the Beginning of Autumn is in good health, the temperature will not drop quickly after the Beginning of Autumn. It is likely that the temperature will rise for a short time, and people will also experience a bitter summer of high temperature and hot flashes. Therefore, the Beginning of Autumn will continue to clear heat and relieve heat after the Beginning of Autumn, and the work of sunstroke prevention still cannot be relaxed. Due to the dryness of autumn, we should also pay attention to drink more warm hot water and eat more products that nourish yin and moisturize the throat, such as lily, Tremella, black fungus, pear and so on.

Enter the autumn, the temperature drop will make metabolism and physiological functions are inhibited, endocrine disorders, resulting in depression. At this time to do a good psychological adjustment is very important, actively participate in sports is a good way, jogging, walking can make the mood cheerful. The morning after the Beginning of Autumn is the best time to exercise, it is neither hot nor cold, and the temperature is pleasant.

In terms of diet, the Beginning of Autumn's principle is "less pungent and more sour." try to eat less spicy products such as onions, ginger, garlic, leeks and peppers, as well as spicy things such as spicy, fried, wine and dry puffed foods. eat more sour fruits and vegetables to help nourish the liver. Compared with meat, leaves, cauliflower and some melons, fruits and vegetables have more obvious tonifying effects, such as eggplant, fresh lotus root, mung bean sprouts, towel gourd, cucumber, wax gourd and balsam pear.

The Beginning of Autumn Custom begins the Autumn Festival

The beginning of Autumn Festival, also known as July Festival. In the Zhou Dynasty, the son of the Sun led the princes of San Gong and Liuqing to welcome the autumn in the western suburbs, and held the ceremony of offering sacrifices to howl and harvest (see "Rites to the Moon"). This custom is still inherited in the Han Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, on the beginning of autumn, the five emperors were also sacrificed. In the Song Dynasty, on the day of the Beginning of Autumn, both men and women wore Chinese catalpa leaves to cope with the time sequence. There is the custom of cutting red leaves of heather and inserting hairpins into the temples, and there is also the custom of swallowing seven small adzuki beans with autumn water (see "the Book of Lin'an"), which clearly inherits the customs of the Song Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, on the day of the beginning of Autumn Festival, hanging scales weighed people, compared with the number weighed in summer, in order to test the fat and thin in summer.

Drink well water

Those who dig holes in the ground and come out of the water are called wells. Some people say that the wells were invented by the Yellow Emperor, while others say that they were created by Bai Yi. The well water comes from the distant vein as the top grade, and the infiltration from nearby rivers and lakes takes the second place. Jinghuashui, which is the water drawn from the well for the first time in the morning, can cure illness and nourish appearance. At the beginning of autumn, everything is quiet, so the water at this time is the most clear. On the Beginning of Autumn's day, you can draw water in the morning. After boiling, get up early and drink on an empty stomach, which is enough to clear the fire and defecate.

Paste autumn fat

It is popular among the people to weigh people with hanging scales on this day, comparing their weight with that of the Beginning of Summer. Because people do not have any appetite in summer, the food is light and simple, and most of them lose a little weight in two or three months. The autumn wind is together, the appetite is big, want to eat something good, add a little nutrition, compensate for the loss in summer, the way to make up is to "paste autumn fat": on the Beginning of Autumn's day, all kinds of meat, stew, barbecue, braised meat, etc., "fat with meat".

Gnawing on autumn

"eating autumn" is also called "biting autumn" in some places. Tianjin is fastidious about eating watermelon or cantaloupe on the Beginning of Autumn's day, which is called "biting autumn", which means that it is very hot in summer, when the Beginning of Autumn bites it. Jiangsu and other places also eat watermelons on this day to "bite autumn". It is said that they do not have autumn prickly heat. In Zhejiang and other places, it is believed that malaria can be prevented by eating watermelons and soju together in autumn. City people in the Beginning of Autumn bought a watermelon to go home, the whole family around to eat, is gnawing on the autumn. On the other hand, farmers are much more bold in eating autumn. They are sitting on the ground in small groups in the melon shed, in the shade of trees, holding red watermelons, green melons, raw potatoes and golden corncobs. The expression of eating autumn is actually a kind of joy of harvest.

This article was originally sent from CTOnews.com 's "Today the Beginning of Autumn: the cloudy sky harvests the color of summer, the sound of wood leaves moving in autumn", with a slight revision.

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