Autumn represents the departure of summer and the beginning of fall. Autumn is the thirteenth of China's twenty-four solar terms, and is the first solar term of the fall season. The word "Li" in "Liqiu" means the beginning, and the word "Qiu" refers to the fall season, and also refers to the time when the crops are ripe.

Although autumn heralds the beginning of autumn, but temperatures generally do not immediately drop to cool, autumn is generally in the middle of the summer in the three volts, so the folk have a "fall after a volts" said circulating, meaning that after the fall will still be hot for a while.

Autumn is the moment of the transfer of autumn and summer, the ancients attached great importance to this festival, according to records, in the Song Dynasty, almost the time of the fall will be potted sycamore tree moved into the emperor's temple, with the arrival of autumn eunuchs will be loud endowment, sycamore should be sound leaf fall to signal the arrival of autumn.