Is the date of the Beginning of Autumn according to the lunar calendar or the Gregorian calendar? What time is the Beginning of Autumn in 2019?

Is the date of the Beginning of Autumn according to the lunar calendar or the Gregorian calendar? What time is the Beginning of Autumn in 2019?
Introduction: The Beginning of Autumn is one of the 24 solar terms, but the date of the Beginning of Autumn is not always the same. So, is the date of the Beginning of Autumn according to the lunar calendar or the Gregorian calendar? What time is the Beginning of Autumn in 2019? Follow the editor to find out! The seventh month of the lunar calendar is commonly known as the Ghost Month. Come to Shuimoxiansheng.com’s special feature on the seventh month of the lunar calendar in 2019 to learn about the auspiciousness and inauspiciousness of the day!

Is the date of the Beginning of Autumn based on the lunar calendar or the Gregorian calendar?

The date of the Beginning of Autumn belongs to the Gregorian calendar, so the Beginning of Autumn is one of the 24 solar terms.
At the beginning of autumn, the Big Dipper points to the southwest. The sun's ecliptic longitude is 135°. The festival falls on August 7-9 in the Gregorian calendar.

During the Beginning of Autumn solar term, the sun moves from Cancer to Leo (135° ecliptic longitude).
When you observe the sky at night, you can see that the handle of the Big Dipper points to the direction of the heavenly stem "Shen" (southwest).
The day of the Beginning of Autumn is the seventh month of the lunar calendar, which is also the "Shen Month". At the beginning of autumn, the sun is at declination +16°19', which is much further south than +23°26' on the summer solstice.

What time is the beginning of autumn in 2019?

Date of the beginning of autumn in 2019:
Thursday, August 8, 2019, 03:12:23 (the eighth day of the seventh month of the Year of the Pig, 24 days away from the beginning of autumn in 2019)
The Beginning of Autumn not only indicates that the hot summer is about to pass, but also that autumn is about to come. It also means that the plants are beginning to bear fruit and the harvest season has arrived. Therefore, at the beginning of autumn, people have the custom of offering sacrifices to the land god and celebrating the harvest.
In the south, there is a custom of "eating autumn melons on the first day of autumn". People eat more watermelons on this day of autumn to prevent autumn dryness, and it has become a custom over time.
The Capital Records published during the Republic of China period recorded: "The day before the beginning of autumn, eating watermelon is called 'eating autumn'." It also means welcoming the arrival of autumn.

Climate characteristics of the Beginning of Autumn

"Li Qiu" has arrived, but it does not mean that the autumn weather has arrived.
The division of climate seasons is based on the "average temperature", that is, the local average temperature for five consecutive days is below 22℃, which is the real autumn season.
China has a vast territory. Although the climate varies from place to place, most areas have not yet entered the autumn climate at this time. Moreover, the last of the hottest days of the year is on the third day after the beginning of autumn.
Especially in southern China, it is still summer during this solar term. At the same time, as the typhoon rain season is gradually passing, the temperature is even hotter. Therefore, Chinese medicine calls the period from the beginning of autumn to the autumnal equinox "long summer".
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.
Heilongjiang and northern Xinjiang, where autumn arrives the earliest, do not enter until mid-August. As a result, the daylight hours in Beijing are shortened to 14 hours and 4 minutes (15 hours on the summer solstice).
The weather is still very hot. There is still a "dog days" after the beginning of autumn, and the "autumn tiger" still exists. Therefore, we still need to pay attention to heatstroke prevention. However, nature has changed. It is hot at noon and cool in the morning and evening, and "one autumn rain brings a cool breeze, and ten autumn rains will turn into frost." In normal years, the capital Beijing starts to feel the cool autumn breeze in early September, and autumn starts in the Qinhuai area from mid-September. In early October, the autumn wind blows to Lishui, Zhejiang, Nanchang, Jiangxi, and Hengyang, Hunan. The news of autumn does not reach the Leizhou Peninsula until early to mid-November, and when autumn reaches Ya County, Hainan, "the end of the world", it is almost New Year's Day.

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