What is the fall of autumn?
The fall of autumn, the thirteenth throttle of the twenty-four solar calendar in the lunar calendar, is the first throttle of autumn, marking the official start of the season of Meng Qiu: "autumn" means the summer to cool. By the beginning of autumn, the Chinese parasol trees began to shed their leaves. From the point of view of writing, the word "Qiu" is composed of grass and fire characters. Autumn is a transitional season from hot to cool and then from cold to cold.
The fall of autumn, July. A word can be found in spring. Autumn is the same.
At the beginning, cool wind. The wind of the west is cool and cool. Temperature changes and cool air begins to eliminate. "Zhou language" said the fire to see and the wind and cold is also.
Two weather, white dew drop. After the heavy rain, the cool wind came, and the weather fell vastly white, not yet condensed beads, so that the White Dew fell, indicating the white autumn gold.
Three weather, chilling cicadas. Cold cicada, "Er Ya" is cold, cicada, small and purple; Ma said that things born in summer, their voice changes.
Song Dynasty Liqiu this day the palace to plant in the pot of the Chinese parasol into the palace, until the "Liqiu" time arrived, Taishiguan then loudly played: "Autumn has come." After playing, the Indus fell down to one or two leaves, so as to imply the meaning of autumn.
What is the origin of the fall of autumn?
The origin of the fall of autumn: Zhou Dai heaven son ritual sacrifice
The beginning of autumn is a long history of traditional festivals. In the early days of Zhou Dai, on the day of the autumn, the son of heaven paid a personal visit to the prince of the three Gong and nine ministers to the western suburbs to welcome the autumn. The Han Dynasty inherited the custom and killed the beast as a sacrifice. There are customs in the autumn when the divination is cool and hot. The Eastern Han Dynasty Cui banquet "four people's monthly order": "Chao Li autumn, chill; night Li autumn, hot to the end." From the Tang and Song Dynasties, there was a custom of serving small red beans in autumn water on this day: 7 to 14 small red beans were taken with well water, and the clothes should face the west, so that it was said that it could not make dysentery in the autumn.
"Houhanshu.jisizhi": "the day of the autumn of autumn, greet the autumn in the western suburbs, the White Emperor production, the car flag is white, song" Xi Hao ", the eight dance" life "dance. In addition, there are emperors to enter the garden to shoot the sacrifices, so as to recommend the ceremony of the ancestral temple. It is the sacrifice of the beast to express the intention of carrying out the martial arts in autumn. " In the Tang Dynasty, the five emperors were sacrificed every autumn. "New Tang Book Ritual Music": "autumn and winter sacrifice to the five emperors in the four suburbs". In the Song Dynasty, men and women wore catalpa leaves at the beginning of autumn.
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