On August 7, 2017, at 15:39:58 on June 16 of the lunar calendar

The thirteenth solar term of the twenty-four solar terms

The Beginning of Autumn, the July Festival, the 13th solar term of the 24 solar terms, the first solar term of autumn, and the beginning of the Mencius Autumn Festival.

The "Beginning of Autumn" marks the arrival of autumn in the traditional sense. Because China has a vast territory, the beginning of autumn in the astronomical sense does not mean entering autumn in the meteorological sense for most regions.

From the literal point of view, the word "autumn" is composed of "he" and "huo", which means "he gu is mature".

Although the "beginning of autumn" has arrived, the weather is not actually autumn in the climate, even after the hot dog days every year. The autumn tiger still exists.

"A leaf knows autumn when the wind is cool." Autumn is coming in such a hurry before summer leaves. The "cool wind at the beginning of autumn" is usually the happiness that can only be experienced by northerners. In the south, it is still "hot after autumn", and the rain is constant. In addition to heat, there is also the trouble of humidity.

2017 dog days schedule

Early maturity: July 12, 2017~July 21, 2017

Medium voltage: July 22, 2017~August 10, 2017

Last days: August 11, 2017~August 20, 2017

The Third Beginning of Autumn

Wait a minute, the cool wind comes. The western bleak wind is called cool wind. The temperature changes and the air begins to cool. When the wind blows, people will feel cool, and the wind at this time is different from the hot wind in summer.

Second, the white dew falls. After the heavy rain, a cool wind came. However, if the weather drops in a vast and white way, it has not yet condensed, so it is called white dew falling, which shows the white of gold in autumn.

In the third wait, cicadas chirp. In autumn, the cicadas, which feel overcast and chirping, also keep shouting "cicadas, cicadas". There is a poem, "Beginning of Autumn", which says: "One leaf of wutong, one report of autumn, and the rice flower field will have a good harvest.". Although it is not midsummer, there are also cicadas singing endlessly.

Stick autumn fat

It is popular for people to weigh people by hanging scales on the beginning of autumn, and compare their weight with that of the beginning of summer. Because people have no appetite in summer, they will lose a little weight in two or three months. With the autumn wind, people have a big appetite. If they want to eat something good, add some nutrition and compensate for the loss in summer, the way to make up is to "stick the fat in autumn": on the day of the beginning of autumn, all kinds of meat, such as stewed meat, barbecued meat, braised meat, etc., "stick the fat with meat".

Gnaw at autumn

"Gnawing autumn" is also called "gnawing autumn" in some places. When people in the city buy a watermelon and go home, the whole family will chew it around, which means it's autumn; However, farmers' autumn gnawing is much more bold and unconstrained. In the melon shed and under the shade of trees, they sit on the ground in groups of three or five, gnawing with red watermelon and golden corn cob... In fact, they express the joy of harvest by gnawing autumn.

Chinese Thanksgiving Day in autumn

The Autumn Society was originally a day for offering sacrifices to the Land God in autumn, which began in the Han Dynasty. Later generations set the Autumn Society on the fifth fifth day after the beginning of the autumn. At this time, the harvest is over, and both the government and the people offer sacrifices to the gods to thank them on this day. In the autumn society of the Song Dynasty, there was a custom of eating cakes, drinking alcohol and returning women to peace. In some places, there are still some sayings about "being a society", "respecting the gods of society" and "cooking community porridge".

Health preservation at the beginning of autumn

Before and after the beginning of autumn, the weather is still very hot, and many families and public places have air conditioners. In the long run, this will lead to the invasion of cold and damp pathogens and lead to "heat".

In addition, in the beginning of autumn, when encountering typhoon and rainfall, the sudden drop in temperature and the attack of cold and overcast air are also one of the reasons for inducing heat stroke. Therefore, to prevent the occurrence of summer heat, one should not be too greedy.

In the beginning of autumn, autumn is bright and crisp. If we go to bed earlier at night, we will be able to accumulate yang qi in our body so that we can have vital energy and spirit. And if you get up early, you can stretch your lungs and prevent too much convergence.

And the temperature changes greatly in the beginning of autumn, so you should not wear too much clothes, otherwise it will affect the body's ability to adapt to the cold climate, and it is easy to catch cold. Therefore, clothes should be appropriately increased or decreased according to climate change to avoid body cooling.

After the beginning of autumn, yang qi will decline and yin qi will rise. The lungs correspond to autumn. However, the dry weather in autumn will damage the lungs. If the abdomen is empty, the body's resistance to external environmental stimuli will be weakened. Then people will get sick easily, in order to deal with this situation. We must nourish our lungs.

To make the lungs work healthily, we must first moisten the lungs and eat more food that moistens the lungs. In autumn, reduce eating too dry food. For example, for some fried foods, it is also necessary to eat less ginger, onion, pepper and other spicy foods, and it is optional to eat more sour and salty foods, such as barley, black beans and cowpeas. We should eat more spleen strengthening and dampness removing foods, such as millet, job's tears, lentils, amomum, etc.