Beginning of autumn's handiwork is very simple.

Beginning of autumn's simple handmade works include smiling faces of leaves, chestnuts dolls, puzzles and wool trees.

Introduction to beginning of autumn:

Beginning of autumn is the thirteenth of the twenty-four solar terms, and it is the beginning of autumn. The bucket refers to the southwest, and the sun reaches the longitude of 135, and it is celebrated on August 7 or 8 of the Gregorian calendar every year. "Reason" means the beginning; "Autumn" means that the grain is ripe.

The change of the whole nature is a step-by-step process, and beginning of autumn is a turning point in which the Yang gradually closes, the Yin gradually grows, and the Yang gradually gets cloudy. In nature, everything begins to mature from luxuriance.

Beginning of autumn means precipitation, humidity, etc. It is at the turning point of the year and tends to decrease or decline. Since beginning of autumn, the sun be the spirit gradually closed, and everything was restrained. Beginning of autumn, beginning of spring, long summer and beginning of winter, also known as the "Four Estates", are also one of the "Four Seasons and Eight Festivals" in ancient times.

Autumn is the season of grain ripening and harvest. At the beginning of autumn, there was a custom of offering sacrifices to the land gods and celebrating the harvest in ancient times. There are also customs such as pasting autumn fat and biting autumn.

Phenological phenomena:

Some ancient literary works in China divide beginning of autumn into three periods: one is waiting for the cool breeze; Second, wait for the white deer to be born; Three are waiting for cicadas to sing. This means that after beginning of autumn, people will feel cool when it is windy, and the wind at this time is different from the hot air in summer; Then, there will be fog on the ground in the morning, and cicadas will begin to sing in autumn when they feel gloomy.

In fact, in most parts of China, the period from beginning of autumn to the summer heat is still sultry, and there is no cool wind, dew and chilling during this "dog days".

According to the order of the twenty-four solar terms, there is a solar term of summertime after beginning of autumn, which means summertime, but it hasn't been summertime in beginning of autumn. The so-called heat is in dog days, which involves four solar terms: slight summer heat, great summer heat, beginning of autumn summer heat and Chu summer heat, and is the period with the highest temperature, humidity and sultry heat in a year.

China has a vast territory. Although the climate varies from place to place, the weather in most parts of beginning of autumn is still very hot in the season, and the sunshine during the day is still strong. The last days of dog days every year are from the first Geng Day after beginning of autumn to the second Geng Day after beginning of autumn.

Chinese medicine also calls the period from beginning of autumn to the autumnal equinox "long summer". Although the weather is hot after beginning of autumn, in nature, the qi of Yin and Yang has begun to change, and everything has begun to move from lush to bleak and mature.

Traditional customs:

Eating autumn melons: In the south, there is a custom that "beginning of autumn eats autumn melons". Eat more watermelons in autumn to prevent autumn dryness and form a custom for a long time. Zizhi, published in the Republic of China, records: "beginning of autumn ate watermelon the day before, which is called gnawing autumn." It also means welcoming the arrival of autumn.

Sticking autumn weight: It is popular to weigh people with hanging scales in early autumn, and compare them with those in long summer to measure their fatness. Losing weight is called "bitter summer". At that time, people often judged health only by being fat and thin. Of course, if you lose weight, you still need to "make up". The remedy is to put on autumn fertilizer.

Sunbathing in autumn: Sunbathing in autumn is a typical agricultural custom phenomenon with strong regional characteristics. Villagers living in mountainous areas such as Hunan, Guangxi, Anhui and Jiangxi. It has become a traditional agricultural custom to use the roof in front of the house and the window sill to hang crops.