When is the Beginning of Autumn on August 7, 2020? What folk activities are there?
"Autumn" means the end of summer and the beginning of coolness, which means the beginning of autumn. When the Beginning of Autumn comes, the paulownia trees start to shed their leaves, hence the idiom “falling leaves indicate the coming of autumn”. From a literary perspective, the word "autumn" is composed of the characters "禾" and "火", which means the maturity of crops. Autumn is a transitional season when the weather changes from hot to cool, and then from cool to cold. The Beginning of Autumn is the first solar term in autumn. As the beginning of autumn, there are many customs popular among the people. The dog days of summer occur in the sixth month of the lunar calendar. During this month, there are many Chinese folk festivals, such as the Tianfu Festival and the Lotus Viewing Festival. There is more knowledge about the sixth lunar month of 2020 in the special topic on Shui Mo Xiansheng’s website!When is the Beginning of Autumn on August 7, 2020?Lunar calendar date: Friday, June 18, 2020.Gregorian calendar time: 09:06:03, August 7, 2020, Friday Lunar calendar date: June 18, 2020, Friday Start time: 09:06:03, August 7, 2020, Friday End time: 23:44, August 22, 2020, Saturday Calculation of the Beginning of Autumn date <br /> Calendar formula for the Beginning of Autumn: [Y*D+C]-L Formula interpretation: Y=last two digits of the year, D=0.2422, L=number of leap years, C=7.5 in the 21st century and 8.35 in the 20th century. For example: The date of the beginning of autumn in 2088 = [88×0.2422+7.5]-[88/4]=28-22=6, so August 6 is the beginning of autumn. Exception: For 2002, add 1 day to the result. What folk activities are there during the Beginning of Autumn?1. Eat autumn <br /> In some places, people eat watermelon or cantaloupe on the day of the Beginning of Autumn. The whole family eats watermelon together. People believe that this can prevent autumn prickly heat and avoid diarrhea in winter and the next spring. This is called "Eat autumn".2. Eat autumn peaches <br /> At the beginning of autumn, both adults and children should eat autumn peaches, one per person, and save the core after eating. On New Year's Eve, people would throw peach pits into the stove and burn them to ashes. They believed that this would ward off plague for the next year. 3. Eat cool cakes <br /> In Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, eating watermelon and cool cakes is an indispensable traditional custom during the beginning of autumn. What is cool cake? It is made by boiling sweet potato starch into a soup and pouring it into a bowl. By the next morning, it has solidified into a whole piece. From a distance, it looks like a round and translucent piece of white jade. Then it is cut into small pieces and sprinkled with sugar, vinegar and mint. It is refreshing, sweet and sour and appetizing. 4. Eat "Fuyuan" The Beginning of Autumn is the peak production period for Taiwan longan. People believe that if they eat longan flesh, their descendants will become high-ranking officials. Longan is also called "Fuyuan", so there is a saying: Eating Fuyuan will give birth to sons and grandsons who are top scorers in the imperial examination. 5. Eat small red beans <br /> Since the Tang and Song dynasties, there is a custom of eating small red beans with well water at the beginning of autumn. Take seven to fourteen small red beans, swallow them with well water, facing west while taking them. It is said that this can prevent dysentery for the whole autumn. 6. Eating the “dregs” In Laixi area of Shandong Province, it is popular to eat "dregs" at the beginning of autumn. The tofu is made of bean curd and vegetables. There is a saying that "after eating the dregs of the beginning of autumn, adults and children will not vomit or have diarrhea." 7. Put on weight in autumn <br /> There is a folk saying: Put on weight in autumn when the beginning of autumn comes, and you will be healthy in spring after winter. It means that after the weather gets cold, people should eat more meat to make up for the poor appetite and sweating caused by the dog days of summer and improve immunity. 8. Eat eggs <br /> In addition, on the day of the Beginning of Autumn, there is a custom of eating eggs and peaches in other parts of China. Eggs are mild in nature, can replenish qi deficiency, and have the function of calming the mind and nourishing the heart. 9. Weighing Water <br /> In the past, people in Suqian City, Jiangsu Province would fill containers with water around the beginning of autumn. The containers had to be the same size and then weighed. If the water stored before the beginning of autumn is heavy, it means that the water level is heavy in the dog days, and there will be less rain in autumn. If the water level is heavy after the beginning of autumn, there will be more rain in autumn, which may lead to autumn flooding. 10. Pray for blessings <br /> In Wujin District, Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province, people hold an autumn meeting to commemorate the Bodhisattva Mengjiang and pray for good weather, peace and prosperity. |
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